Argentinian avant garde,
Canadian oil-rig-rock and a Sunday afternoon Rachmaninoff recital?
Sounds like a fairly typical weekend of live music in Phnom Penh!
Bitches
Mix will bring their experimental sound to the Alley Cat Cafe
this Friday. Maria Lobato and Adrien Sergent
like to keep their performances as improvised as possible. The
duo prepare for a show by setting up keyboards, percussion, melodica,
loop pedal and microphones (amongst other instruments). When the show
starts... anything goes! Bitches Mix create a spicy brew of
vocal percussion and looped melodies. Tasty!
Max Jones
has been developing the
sound of 99-99 Arts Group
in the bar rooms and
rehearsal spaces of Phnom Penh over the past several months.
A few different players have
come and gone in
that time but the essence
of the 99-99
sound is Max's resounding
baritone voice and his dark,
literary songs. Superb
bassist Dave Zdriluk
has also been a fixture.
Dave and Max will be joined by Boom Baar
(drums) and Jimmy B
(Saxophone) at Sharky
Bar
this Saturday night. Max
Jones told Leng
Pleng a
little bit more about the
show:
“...we
are going to be screening rare archival street videography of images
of downtown NYC in the 1980s. The fascinating, odd or perhaps
downright weird thing about this show is the somewhat disturbing
juxtapositions that occur between the music and the video which are
different every night and which approach some kind of twisted
synchronicity of beautiful horror.
The
99-99 Arts Group is an arts collective that does a mixture between a
multi-media art show consisting of video and lenticular photography
combined with a honky-tonk rock band. Their music is influenced by
punk-rock, bad karaoke, Leonard Cohen, gothic rock, Hank Williams,
Pere Ubu, and Television.
Canadian
Dave toured the North of Canada on the oil rig circuit in Canada in
the 1970's and is a seminal figure on the burgeoning music scene here
in Phnom Penh. There is a rumour going around town that he is
actually from Canada hence the nickname Canadian Dave.”
Nicholas Ho is
a young concert pianist from Singapore. Nicholas will be performing a
special recital
with Cambodian pianist Touch
Raksmey at Himawari
Hotel Apartments in Phnom Penh
this Sunday afternoon. Check
out the video below to hear
the world-class skills of Nicholas Ho -
performing a challenging piece
composed by Sergei
Rachmaninoff. Should be a
great concert.
For weekly news about
classical music and other arts events in Cambodia, be sure to check
out our sister publication, Kumnooh. The page is a
great way to keep abreast of events such as Imperfection –
Flowers in Motion – an
art opening taking place this Sunday afternoon at
Palm Tours Cafe on
Street 278 in Phnom Penh, across the street from where the Equinox
venue used to be. Many readers of Leng
Pleng will
already be familiar with the artist behind
the exhibition – none other than Anthony
Mrugacz,
former general manager of Equinox.
Since the closure of Equinox
a few months ago, Anthony has been busy producing some fabulous and
original works
of art. Check it out!
Long-time Leng Pleng readers
may remember the late Ian 'Snowy' Woodford, who operated the
legendary Maxine's
(better known as 'Snowy's') bar
on the Chroy Changvar peninsula in Phnom Penh. Snowy's was a famous
hangout and hosted early performances from luminary bands such as
Dengue Fever
and The Cambodian
Space Project.
Filmmaker
Tim Corrigan has captured the charisma and extremely colourful story
of Snowy in a cool
documentary.
The
film will be screened at Meta
House
this Friday night.
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Ian
'Snowy' Woodford – pic:
Meta House Facebook
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