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Tim
Hall – pic courtesy of artist
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Tim
Hall is a ‘musician, sculptor, songwriter, player, teacher
and producer’ from Sydney, Australia. Check out his great website
to learn all about Tim’s incredible musical journey - from winning
a local band competition at his first gig with university mates in
1990 to winning three ARIA (Australian Recording Industry
Association) awards in 1998 with band ‘The Whitlams’. The journey
has encompassed huge stadium
gigs, such as supporting Kylie Minogue on her ‘On A Night Like
This’ tour in 2000, as well as a great deal of song-writing and
production work. Fortunately for the Cambodian music scene,
Tim has recently been seduced by the charms of the Kingdom of Wonder.
He currently resides in leafy Battambang.
I encourage you to take the opportunity to sample his
extraordinary stage presence, performance skills and great songs at
Meta House this Friday and at Java Cafe & Gallery
on Saturday night. Tim Hall gave Leng Pleng a
little background information about his Phnom Penh gigs:
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“The
two shows will be very different. Friday night at Meta I'll be doing
a set around 9pm then another around midnight. The first set will be
solo and unaccompanied. Using a phase loop pedal, I'll be layering up
vocals to create tracks. Then at 12 I will take the mic and sing
mash-up style over Nico's DJ-ing. This is great fun as it adds a live
element to dance music. Saturday at Java will be starting at 7.30pm
and once again I'll be doing two sets. I will be performing
originals, singer-songwriter style, with an acoustic guitar. I'll
throw in a few covers, done my own way, to host a night focusing on
the theme for Valentine’s Day, ‘Heart & Soul’.”
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Mekong
Messengers – pic: Charles Fox
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Euan
Gray – pic: www.kenedgar.com
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Mute
Speaker will be at the Lotus Bar and Gallery tonight in
Battambang, playing ‘a live mix of traditional Khmer music mixed
with pre-recorded ambient sounds and his own beats.’ Mute
Speaker, AKA Rob O’Hara, created a very cool album
last year entitled Radio Bokor. The British underground
DJ describes Radio Bokor as ‘an album of
instrumental beats constructed from chopped-up songs from the 'Golden
Age' of Cambodian music (1960's to 1975)’. Check out the result
on bandcamp. There will also be live video mixing by Oliver Stoned
during the gig at Lotus. Sounds like a cool event.
Whatever you're up to over the next few days, stay safe out there and... see you around the traps! CLICK HERE FOR LATEST GIGS
JOE WRIGLEY
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