The Ghost of Love [SEP] performer
The Ghost of Love
The Ghost of Love is an album released in November 2009 by English folk-rock singer Robb Johnson and his band The Irregulars. The album takes the form of a song cycle based on a woman called Mary and the events that occur in her life at Christmas over various years.
Concept.
A number of the songs had appeared sporadically on earlier albums by Johnson, dating back to "Overnight" in 1991, although the recordings presented on the album are all new. The songs were
triangle, the two men compete for one beautiful woman and reappear in countless likay performances.
Another popular character borrowed from local ghost folklore is Mae Nak Phra Khanong. Her story, also about love and death, focuses on her afterlife as a ghost. Her unbreakable love for her husband, even beyond death, and the terror she spreads out of jealousy and anger repeatedly finds new interpretations in likay folk theatre.
Performance.
"Awk khaek" (; ) is the performance before likay begins when the performer comes out