Stripped of amplifiers and bravado, The Paradise Bangkok Molam International Band arrives at Studio Lam in a rarer mood. This one-off acoustic outing, billed as the Paradise Bangkok ‘National’ Molam Project, pares their sound back to the bones. Isan folk traditions, jazz phrasing and folk sensibilities surface without gloss, rearranged specially for the night. Familiar tracks feel altered, even slightly exposed, as if overheard rather than performed. The room matters here. Studio Lam lends a closeness that suits molam’s storytelling core, where emotion sits in the spaces between notes. What comes through is not nostalgia but attention, a careful listening to where these songs began and why they still hold. Innovation remains, just quieter, threaded through restraint rather than volume. It feels less like a show and more like being trusted with something personal, shared once, then gone.
February 5. B500 at the door. Studio Lam, 10pm