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| Preparing for lift off: Srey Channty of CSP – pic: supplied |
The Cambodian Space
Project will
be touching down in Phnom
Penh for a special gig at
Institut français du
Cambodge tonight.
The combination of
a large number
of
excitable
French
Institute students
and CSP's
dedicated and enthusiastic barang
following
will make for a very lively audience. This year, the Institut
français invested
in a brand new, kick-ass sound system - all
the better to blast out those increasingly 'Kosmic' CSP guitar riffs. The band's latest studio album, Electric
Blue
Boogaloo,
showcases a
more raw and powerful sound than previous sets,
via the sterling work of top U.S. record producer Jim Diamond. Space
Commander Julien
Poulson gave
Leng Pleng the
heads-up regarding the band's current flight
plan:
“CSP's
show tonight is a special one-off concert as part of the Institut
Francais exhibition program of revivalist Cambodian pop culture. It's
classic stripped down CSP line-up tonight with rhythm machines Bun
Sophea and Bong Sak holding down the jungle big beat. It's also a
time for CSP to take a year off international touring while the band
concentrates on releasing the 'Spaced-Out in Bongland' LP and their 2nd
full-length feature film 'They Came From Somewhere Else: The Cambodian
Space Project' ”
Wow!
Sounds like these
guys are not ones
to let the
grass grow under their feet! Check out the Cambodian
Space Project's
early show tonight (Thursday) at Institut
français du Cambodge in
Phnom Penh, and check out the video below for a suitably Kosmic
'1960's South-East Asian Flashback'!
Yab
Moung Records is a
home-grown Cambodian/expat recording imprint that gained
international
attention
a couple of years ago in conjunction with bands such as Sliten6ix,
No Forever, and
ANTI-Fate. Yab
Moung is
putting on a show this Saturday at Showbox
featuring Doch
Chkae,
Nightmare A.D. and
brand-new artist Vartey
Ganiva. In keeping with the Yab Moung style, all these bands play heavy, hardcore music of Cambodian origin.
Note the early show time.
Later
on Saturday, another new combination of musicians will debut at
Oscar's On The
Corner.
The Seng Thoung
Country and Western Swing
Band
is the latest two-stepping, barn-busting, fiddle-bending group of
musicians headed up by Clay
George.
Lots
of energetic Johnny Cash and Hank Williams covers will be performed
in a style not seen in Phnom Penh since the last Grass
Snake Union gig.
Early on Sunday, a group of young Cambodian musicians from Battambang and Siem Reap will be presenting Rock The Street
– a concert featuring Khmer rock n roll classics. The show will take
place at The Little Red Fox in Siem Reap and features, amongst
others, members of Batbangers and Black Rock Band. As the event
is being organised by the Phare
organisation (Phare Ponleu Selpak), you can be sure that the
performance will be something
interesting and worthwhile.
Krom
released the below video last week to accompany their original song
'From The Heart'. See if you can guess where the video was filmed!
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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