Kantrum Music

Kantrum (also gantreum) is to Thai-Khmers what mor lam is to Thai-Laotians, both of whom live side-by-side in the northeast region of Thailand known as Issan. Hardly heard outside the provinces bordering Cambodia, kantrum is surely Thailand's best kept music secret. A major force in the revival of the 1990s was the late Somchai Kongsookdee, popularly known as Darky.