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| Bloco Malagasy beating the drum in Cambodia - pic: Coconut Water website |
Ten
drummers of Bloco Malagasy will be marching through Battambang
today. The Madagascan musical troupe will be performing at La
Maison Wat Kor tonight
(Thursday) and at various
locations in Battambang over the next few days. Bloco
Malagasy will be
spreading good vibes and good music in Phnom Penh from the 29th
February – with a performance at Farm to Table
on Tuesday the 1st
March. The ten female
percussionists who make up the travelling group are on a month-long
tour of The Kingdom – 'beating the drum for responsible
tourism' (Coconut
Water website). Be
sure to catch them and be sure to bring your dancing shoes!
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| Kheltica: the more the merrier! |
Another
multifarious and much-missed group will be taking to the stage on
Saturday night. Kheltica
will be back in force at La
Creperie in
Phnom Penh – with
their
usual compliment of
guitars, violins,
flute,
percussion and piano. This band of expats from various continents
play lively and
bracing Celtic music. This
Saturday will see their first gig for a little while and the debut of
a new singer - Séamus
MacDubhglas
– who is (unlike
the rest of the group)
actually from
Ireland!
A
special
charity event will be taking place on 'Golden' Street 278 this
Saturday.
Venues Top Banana,
Duplex and
Club Love
have teamed up with a host of live performers to put on a street
party for P.S.E.
(Pour un Sourire
d'Enfant – Cambodia). 'Eleven
hours of craziness' are promised, including live painting,
breakdancing and
firedancing alongside some great bands and DJs. Conrad
Keely and
his band will headline – playing songs from his recently released
solo record and tracks by his
'regular' band
...Trail of Dead.
Conrad
– together with
Henrik Rasmussen
(drums), Mark
Chattaway
(bass) and Julius
Bjornson
(violin) – played an intense and powerful set at The
Exchange
last Saturday in support of Dengue
Fever (that's
a band, not an NGO).
A jam-packed house of hundreds were treated to a full-on, hour-long
set. Mark Chattaway
will also be playing the 'Golden' Street party on Saturday with The
Kampot Playboys.
Many, many more great acts will also be appearing – check the
listings below for full details.
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| Conrad Keely band put on a great support show for Dengue Fever last weekend |
There
are certainly a lot of very creative music events happening in Phnom
Penh over the next few days.
Scott Bywater,
Warren Daly,
Hal FX and
Chhan Dina convene
at Meta House
on Saturday for a special multi-media performance featuring 'mixed
soundscapes, poetry and visual wonders'.
The show, entitled The Beta Experiments,
is
a preview of Performance
Experiments 01
– scheduled to take place at the same venue next month.
Mezcal Jazz Unit is
a dynamic band of modern
jazz players
from Montpelier in the South of France. They have been touring the
world since 1986. The band
have collaborated and recorded with musicians in Eastern Europe,
Asia, India and Africa. The
Mezcal quartet – comprising of Christophe, Emmanuel, Daniel and
Jean-Marie – are currently visiting Cambodia. The
band will be performing with
musicians of Cambodian Living Arts
(CLA) at
two special concerts in Phnom Penh – on
Friday at The Institut
Francais du Cambodge and
on Saturday at the National
Museum. Check
out the video below to find out what happened when Mezcal
Jazz Unit
and Alex Scarpati
(trombone) performed with CLA musicians at the Music
Art School in
Siem Reap last week.
Whatever you're up to over the next few days... stay safe out there and... see you around the traps!
JOE WRIGLEY
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