Chhom Nimol
chatted with Leng
Pleng about
singing with Dengue
Fever,
preparing for her upcoming Don't Think I've
Forgotten
live
shows
in New York City and playing Cambodian music to a Mexican audience in
El Paso, Texas! Read the full Leng Pleng
interview
piece here. Click
the download
link
on
the right-hand side of this page to
hear the
fantastic
new Dengue
Fever
album, The Deepest Lake.
Scott
Bywater
was
gallivanting
around Vietnam last week when the
news broke of the sudden
closure of one of Phnom Penh's finest venues, Equinox.
Leng Pleng
persuaded
Scott to write
a
few words in tribute to the late,
and
much
lamented,
Street
278 establishment.
Read Scott's insightful impressions (and poem) in
Farewell to Equinox.
Urban Art and Urbane Bloom
The
Cambodian Urban Art Festival
will be
launched today with a special concert at The
French Institute in
Phnom Penh. A host of happening KlapYaHandz
artists including Sreyleak,
Ouk&Yut
and Ago
will perform live sets. For more information about the Cambodian
Urban Art Festival,
check
out our sister publication Kumnooh
– an online contemporary arts guide for Cambodia.
Also
on Thursday, Amanda Bloom
is at Doors Phnom Penh
with
her long-time
musical collaborators Tara
Mar (cello)
and Michele Bowen
(bassoon). Amanda will be showcasing
her incredible skills on the Doors
grand piano and singing songs from her new album Atlas.
Check
out the awesome video below to hear one of her finest compositions to
date, Pleats of Fortuny.
When one door closes,
another opens...
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Huge Monroe - pic: Bodhi Villa Facebook |
Over
on the east
bank of the Kampong
Bay River, Julien
Poulson and the team behind
KAMA
(Kampot Arts & Music
Association) are currently gearing up for their 'second soft
opening', which will take place this Saturday. Julien's Bokor
Mountain Magic Band and
guests will play a live
show to mark the
unveiling of KAMA's 'Sun-Ra Space Bar' ...cool!
Silky-smooth musical
partnerships in Phnom Penh
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R.J.
Marshall
will team up with guitarist Jeff
Sleeman
at Sundance Inn &
Saloon on
Sunday night to perform two sets of 100% original material.
'Americana'-influenced UK singer R.J. has recently
been rediscovering some 'lost gems' in amongst his back-catalogue of
well-crafted, soulful songs. Jeff
Sleeman
is the kind
of guitar player that stops traffic on Street
172,
using alternative tunings and intricate picking patterns
to
tease out strikingly unusual and beautiful melodies. Should
be a great night of creative music-making.
Another
classy collaboration will take place next Wednesday at Doors
when
pianist
Gabi Faja
joins Tamaraka
Trio
for an evening of sophisticated Latin jazz.
Check out the video below to
hear Gabi's recent solo piano take on an
all-time
classic
song.
Brand new music from Phnom
Penh!
You
may notice a couple of new download links on the right-hand side of
this page, alongside the link
to the great new album
by Dengue
Fever.
Invisible Agent
is
a Phnom-Penh based record label that
specialises
in ambient and electronic sounds. This week the imprint will
bring
you the
brand-new album
Adrift
by
Ebauche
which
is a
collection of eleven
exquisitely-crafted
soundscapes
recorded
in Cambodia, Ireland and Poland. Recently
the label also released Soma,
which
is
the latest EP by groovy electronic artist Audio
Mainline
and
is described
by the Invisible Agent website as
'a
deliciously prescribed sensory capsule, fittingly recorded in Asia’s
Kingdom of Wonder'! Hats off to Invisible Agent
for consistently
producing great original music!
Whatever you're listening to over the next few days, enjoy the music and... see you around the traps!
CLICK HERE FOR LATEST GIGS
JOE WRIGLEY
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