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	Music of Malaca by D'Tiru-Tiru Cultural Group Listen to this song from Malaca, in Malaysia. It is an old Portuguese folk song, performed by a string band that includes accordion and harmonica, called "Tiru Liru Liru." I love to find music like this, where all the boundaries are blurred by crossings in cultures, instruments and media (albeit because of our own human inability to behave decently). This region has at times been controlled by the Portuguese, the Dutch and the Malay, and its music exhibits this. But I picked this tune not so much for its regional qualities but because it sounds so much like an old American mountain band. Listen now, but think about it? - CF This song is from Kantiga Di Padrisi Sa Chang, part of an amazing 12 CD collection entitled A Viagem Dos Sons - The Journey of Sounds that traces the music of the world through the former Portuguese territories and colonies, displaying the resilence of both the European influence and the triumph of the local cultures. It shows how folk music is never locked into tradition, how cultural grows, dies and is born again. This series is produced by a small company in Portugal called Tradisom. (email: tradisom@mail.telepac.pt
		While the accordion and harmonica are the most familiar members of the free reed instrument family, there is actually a long world history of these instruments that stretches back far before the invention of the squeezebox in the 1800s. The khaen is a Thai and Laotian instrument, made of bamboo tubes, each with a reed for a different note, played through a central mouthpiece. Listen to a bit of the music as performed by Laotian musician Nouthong Phimvilayphone from the album Visions of the Orient: Music from Laos.	More in the Listen to Eric Seyfarth's journey to hear the khaen and vocal music of Laos in his report for CBC's Global Village.