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thank to Jinja for nice discover ! hope we could hear more original Khmer Song.
Laura Mam is a Cambodian American. Listen to her song, she could sing Khmer very well. Will wait for more songs from her.
Visit her youtube page for more songs
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Source: Independent
This Thursday, acclaimed Cambodian psych rockers Dengue Fever make their highly anticipated return to SOhO.
To sing the praises of Dengue’s talent is easy. The six-piece masterfully blend worldly influences with the classic rock sounds of the ’60s and ’70s, creating songs that are as multitiered as they are groovable.
But to truly grasp the band’s genius, one must engage in a bit of a history lesson. In 2001, brothers Zac and Ethan Holtzman formed Dengue Fever after taking an interest in the pre-Pol Pot Cambodian pop music scene.
The tunes-discovered by Zac in San Francisco and Ethan during a trip to the country-drew directly from the 1960s American rock scene, with chord progressions and riffs that were remarkably similar to the music of Jimi Hendrix, or Pink Floyd, or The Ventures, sung completely in Khmer.
Read full article Dengue Fever Bring Cambodian Psych Rock to SOhO
Thank Cambodia: Details are Sketchy for the link
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What is your plan for this Christmas and New Year Eve? We got our own plan to Malaysia and Singapore.
My new home doesn’t have internet access yet, a bit difficult to make any update. I hope next year I could find a good ISP to keep you guys update of everything back again.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all of you.
For those that stay in Cambodia, I got an interesting feedback from an Australian musician/filmmaker Julien Poulson from (The Green Mist) is proud to announce his new Phnom Penh music group THE CAMBODIAN SPACE PROJECT.
Preparing for take-off with shows in Dec-Jan – see bio below for full story.
25th Dec La Croisette – (Xmas) - acoustic show 9pm
26th Dec Boat Cruise – (Boxing Day) Boat Cruise - 3-8pm tickets $20 inc open bar. book now on 012 306 845
30th Dec FCC – NYE eve – full band, sound system and video projection
8th Jan – Metahouse – 3rd Birthday Party
a singer on a mission with The Cambodian Space Project.
Srey Thy was born into poverty and famine around the time the Khmer Rouge were finally driven from power by the invading Vietnamese ‘liberators’.
Srey Thy’s father then a tank driver lives today in the same impoverished village in Prey Veng province (Cambodia’s poorest) where he proudly points to a faded photo, hanging from the flimsy wall of the family’s thatched hut, of a handsome young officer in 70’s flares and sunglasses, standing next to a naked baby girl, both listening attentively to a transistor radio and in the background a huge tank frames the young soldier and his baby daughter Srey Thy.
Five years ago, Srey Thy fled poverty and a violent husband and moved to Phnom Penh to seek out work as a Karaoke singer. Since arriving in Phnom Penh where she has struggled to make a living but by working for less than $100 a month, she supports her entire family with the little money she sends back home.
Srey Thy has worked all the Cambodian singing bars in Phnom Penh and has a repertoire of hundreds of songs but has often been cheated out of the small fees for her work and at times felt like quitting the city and returning to life in the village.
Late last year, Srey Thy had all but given up wor! king as a singer and had just begun working in a bar entertaining foreigners with her very limited English “hello… you like…eat drink one more beer?”
It was around this time she met Australian musician Julien Poulson (The Green Mist) who was in Phnom Penh to create music and film and looking for Cambodian musicians to work with. Poulson heard Srey Thy sing a Pan Ron song and was instantly taken by Srey Thy’s voice as well as her obvious passion for the singers from pre-war times.
But Poulson was about to leave Cambodia and had to make made a promise to return sometime to work on a music project with Thy, perhaps exposing her voice to a wider audience and coming up with an interesting cross-culture rock band in the process.
Now, The Cambodian Space Project is ready for lift-off. It’s all ready been described as “a tripped-out, cosmic mix of space rock coupled with the deliciously golden voice of Srey Thy…”
For Srey Thy, the opportunity of working with a band mixed with foreigners and Khmers playing to create exciting new music, is not only fun but is truly a life changing experience.
For the band, the thrill of offering audiences something new as part of Phnom Penh’s flourishing music scene while embarking on a truly cosmic space odyssey, is where’s it’s at.
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i remember when i watch Chungking Express, a film of Wong Kar-wai, everything has an expiry date, including love.
we fall in love only one time, obstacles will follow and we will spend the rest of our life to recover back. it sound terrific. but it’s good to look at the back side of how love could effect to our daily life.
i also sat down and try to understand about the expiration of love, does it truly exist? how this thing could happen. i found out some clues and write it down somewhere sometime ago in an open letter.
some people read and found it almost true to their case, and this short small letter has help them a lot to understand what happen to them.
i still believe there’s always a space between man and woman. there’s always a circumstance that man or woman cannot understand the opposite gender.
it’s the nature of both side, and i believe somehow we still always can eliminate or minimize that space so that we could easily talk to each other, listen to the reason and let things go.
check out my an open love letter that i wrote few year back,
there’s a song that i found it also could talk the true of love, it’s a Khmer song, coming from Spark Music few years ago, we all still could find in any Karaoke in town if you want to sing.
this song tell about the complexity of the feeling that even we know the woman will not come back to us, but this love, this good feeling still remains, there’s no way to take it out, there’s no way to end it.
check it out in youtube, you will love this love song
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these days don’t have much time to go to Cd shop or search any new songs, all the way along the way from home to office, Love FM radio is my favorite channel … i still got every old stereo player … but it works fine actually 
during these days i heard a song which i starts to love it now and i listen very often, it’s a new song from Madonna, Miles Away,
i like the song very much, it is soft, sweet and very good lyric. i am a big fun of Madonna, even whatever the people say but she have been, in my mind, one of the great artists of the world.
please out her video music of her song Miles Away:
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Michael Jackson has passed away on June 25 2009 at the age of 50.
The whole world is sad,
i am the big fan of his songs, when i was young what i know about American music is Michael Jackson. all the music and songs he wrote and composed through all these great years, we will never forget him.
let’s share together this sadness with the list that rarely combined at Spinner.com
The 25 Most Exquisitely Sad Songs in the Whole World
Photo: In Memoriam by Marc
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you might know already when i said Klap Ya Hands … right? or you don’t have any idea what it is about?
well in case you are not familiar with Khmer hip hop, Klap Ya Hands is a Hip Hop songs production, supported by Sok Visal, a Franco-Khmer but i could tell, all the music he produced is not influenced from RAP in Paris. all his hip hop song is something about Khmer music mostly the old song from 60s or 70s,
check more about his profile, on Asian Life Phnom Penh
i used to exchanged some message with him on facebook, he is a cool guy and still want to do more Khmer hip hop …
he recently released some interesting Khmer hip hop song, the one i want to recommend for you at this time is Lot Doch Besdong by LISHA feat KHMER KID & YUNGSTERZ.
i like the rhythm and the music behind, you can find out more music video at youtube Cream391
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French restaurant, Topaz, and BosbaPANH are collaborating to raise funds for Cambodian arts and artists.
The fundraising recital was initiated when bosbapanh heard about the difficulties facing the family of EM Theay, Cambodian classical artists whose house burned down when fire swept their neighborhood.
Using the launch of her 2007 Concert VCD, bosbapanh will give a recital to raise fund to be donated to EM Theay’s family.
The concert will include a range of music from the elegant songs of King Father Sihanouk to traditional mohori Khmer lullabies, eternal songs from an international repertoire and bosbaPANH’s own rendition of La Vie en Rose.
Tickets for the recital and dinner are $90 (+10%VAT) per person and include a cocktail reception, a gourmet 3-course dinner and wine.
5 June 2009
Topaz Restaurant
Recital la Vie en Rose – 19:00 pm
182 Norodom Bd
Phnom Penh
Cambodia
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Young Cambodians are becoming increasingly involved in “hip hop culture.’’ Dance, music, fashion—all the elements of hip hop are present these days in the streets. Singers (rappers) and dancers (The Tiny Toons and Belle) perform regularly.
A Cambodian style is being born. Phnom Penh Hip Hop is the first cooperative and promotional event for this new culture, presented from all angles.
The project includes a two-week training / creation workshop, thanks to first-rate dancers from the very summit of world hip hop arriving from France and Germany: Storm, Sébastien Ramirez and Raphael Hillebrand.
They will work with young Khmer hip hop dancers from Tiny Toons Compagny and also with the exceptional Cambodian dancer Belle (traditional dance) to prepare original pieces to be presented during the festival.
Three evenings of hip hop dance, organized at the Chenla Theater,will bring together these dancers, along with a French hip hop company, Accrorap.
Finally, the festival will close with a big musical evening event on the Wat Bothum esplanade. Pontoon will also organise a Hip Hop party.
Phnom Penh Hip Hop is organized by a partnership between the CCF of Cambodia and Meta House.
More detail Phnom Penh Hip Hop
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they are two, Olivia is from Finland and Dan is living in Paris. They first meet in 2005, since then they compose song together.
Dan came from Jazz, the music classic and rock, other is recently installing in Paris, Olivia sings for Rock/Jazz bands. after they met, something is happening, a new melody and rhythm, that we never heard of, have been created.
“On My Shoulder” is something new that we all can appreciate the work that came from 4 hands and two heads 
that’s what they mentioned in facebook lol
their meet is an extraordinary thing, Olivia voice is sweet and natural, i can’t tell how much i like her voice but you can hear and feel on your own.
Thank to ViBol at khmerplus.com for recommendation,
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