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Julien Poulson |
“Motown to the
Mekong is a recording project for CSP and it's also something that is
being filmed and documented for a movie. It's not your regular 'band
goes to studio to record album' project as we're opening the studio
door to the public and sharing the process through blogging and
writing. ...there's a cross-cultural 'music friendship'
outcome - something that looks into the back catalogue of Cambodian
rock'n'roll and at the convergence points of Western (Motown) and
Eastern music cultures: This is mostly music that we'd today describe
as Vietnam War era soundtrack.” - Julien Poulson of The
Cambodian Space Project – click
here to
read
the full Q&A.
Space Project lead
singer Kak Chantty,
record producer Jim Diamond,
author Clinton
Walker, singer Em
Vun and Drakkar
Band leader Touch
Tana will all be taking part in
a special event at The
Exchange
in Phnom Penh this Friday night. The
panel will be discussing the 1960's and 1970's era of Cambodian
rock'n'roll: 'how and why
the scene began, where it is today, and where Cambodia's flourishing
music revival might be heading'. The
event,
part of the 'Motown to The Mekong' tour,
will also feature a live performance of several leading 'Cambodian
Women of Song' – including The
Messenger
Band,
Miss
Sarawan,
Socheata
Keo
(Kok Thlok),
Lue
Thy
(Bokor
Mountain Magic Band) and Kak
Channtty of
CSP.
Here
Be Dragons will
be the
place
to be on Saturday night, when the 'Motown
to The Mekong' tour bus will
come rolling in to Battambang for
a full show by The
Cambodian Space Project.
Dragons
is
a popular guest
house
which is occasionally transformed into a rocking music venue.
To
read
more about the
tour and
all the latest CSP
news,
check out the
Leng
Pleng Q&A
session with band leader Julien
Poulson.
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Moi Tiet at The FCC – pic: Steve Porte |
In Phnom Penh on
Saturday, Scott Bywater's
Moi Tiet will perform
an evening of all-original songs at Sharky
Bar.
Scott contacted Leng
Pleng
to
tell us more about the evolving line-up of the band, featuring
a muscular sound, emanating
from three
individual
guitar-players:
“more
powerful than loud, with each instrument its own sound combining into
something that resembles the kind of music you'd find on the radio
when I was in high school. A recent burst of writing has also brought
some new songs into the repertoire, including a couple of new Phnom
Penh inspired tunes, 'On
The
Boulevard'
and 'Many
Ways
To
Love
A
City.'”
Scott Bywater has
also been busy at the newly-revamped Oscar
Bar
on Street 104 (The venue has moved upstairs to the more spacious
environs of the former 'Colonial Bar'). The
excellent resident 'Oscar Band' features a rotating cast of local
musicians. You can find Scott performing there each Thursday. There
are also plans for a series of special gigs featuring guest bands –
keep an eye on
Leng Pleng for
forthcoming news. In the meantime, Oscar's house band will be performing an extra show at Sharky Bar on Friday night!
The
self-professed 'elusive, exclusive and reclusive' Phnom
Penh-based band Krom have just released a new short film,
produced by Tim Purdie and Bunhom Chhorn. Check out the Youtube link
below for a twenty-minute journey into the music and history of this
unique and uncompromising group.
Whatever you're up to over the next few days, stay safe out there and... see you around the traps!
JOE WRIGLEY
CLICK HERE FOR LATEST GIGS
JOE WRIGLEY
CLICK HERE FOR LATEST GIGS
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