Sao Paulo, Tokyo, NYC... Phnom Penh!
City
gig-goers still have a couple of chances left to catch master
percussionist and vocalist Valtinho Anastacio, before
he heads off for another far-flung corner of the globe. The Brazilian
maestro will be performing at Samai Distillery in
Phnom Penh tonight
with fellow percussionist Lewis
Pragasam and DJ Mr
Tenisons.
The show will also contain a workshop segment, when members of the
audience will have the opportunity to learn percussions with the
masters Pragasam and
Anastacio. It is not every day that you get the chance to play
with a musician who was worked with legendary names like McCoy Tyner,
Astrud Gilberto and Eddie van Halen! Valtinho
will also be performing a show with Lewis
Pragasam and DJ
Moto on Friday at The
D22, Phnom Penh Tower.
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Listen to the beautiful music of
Valtinho Anastacio on Soundcloud
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Music Without Walls, Across
Cambodian Borders
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J Poulson, pic: CSP Facebook |
Wing
Commander Poulson of the Cambodian Space Project
will be returning to base this Friday night for a rare solo show at
The Alley Cat Cafe.
Before falling in love with
Cambodian psych-rock, Julien Poulson
was, in the mid-2000's,
the man behind the excellent
Tasmanian alternative-rock band The Green Mist (Violent
Femmes bassist Brian Ritchie was also a member).
First-time
visitors to The
Alley Cat Cafe looking
for live music might be forgiven for thinking they were in the wrong
place – the venue is very small and there is no stage. However, the
tiny
mixing desk hidden behind the bar and the PA speakers mounted high on
the ceiling routinely
produce some excellent
live sounds. 99-99
Arts Group have
recently begun a residency on Thursday nights, while this week's
Sunday Sundowner
Sessions
acoustic jam is hosted by the fantastic fusionists Kampot
Playboys.
The
bijou Alleycat
Cafe
was, as
beer-wizened Phnom Penh expats will attest,
the venue
where
the Cambodian Space
Project were
founded, back in 2009.
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The
Kampot Playboys: (l-r) Mark, Lee, Chiet, Nget,
Kevin, will be rocking
Sharky Bar on Saturday night. pic: Kampot Playboys Facebook
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Read the Leng Pleng Q&A with Lafidki |
Saphy 'Lafidki' Vong and
Jan 'Kinski' Mueller are the two 'mad professors' of the Phnom Penh
electronic music scene. Both artists produce amazing sounds from
their respective studio bunkers in the back streets of the city. The
music of Lafidki is ambient and avant-garde, while Professor Kinski is the brain behind the raggamuffin mash-up music of
Dub Addiction. Meta House
are putting the two together for an electronic
music mini-festival, set to
take place this Friday night. Live
musicians Anastasia
Shepherd (saxophone)
and resident Meta House experi-mentalists Electric
Universe are
also taking part, alongside DJs Mr
Brown and
Andy Freak.
This will be a very creative and extremely cool evening of music.
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pic: Mayda Miller Google Plus
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Mayda Miller
is a talented
producer, writer, musician
(and part-time llama
handler) based in Saint
Paul, Minnesota. Her
experimental, funky music is
produced in collaboration with drummer
Michael Bland (who has also worked with Prince and Nick Jonas). As
you will see from the music video below, Mayda is an awesome singer
and performer. She will be in Cambodia for just
a few days, performing a
solo show at Sharky Bar
on
Friday night. You can also catch Mayda
Miller
at Eluvium Lounge
(alongside
DJ
Mute
Speaker)
in
Phnom Penh on Wednesday.
Whatever you're up to over the next few days... stay safe out there and... see you around the traps!
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