Khmer Beauty: An introduction to Cambodia by Sothy Eng
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Poster from phnompenhpost.com
is there any survived cinema in Phnom Penh?
or all have been converted to Casino or Night Club?
if you ask few people this question: how long haven’t you been to cinema? i believed you hardly get the answer.
it’s sad to live in a city where there’s no cinema. it’s hard to live in a city where there’s no art activity. it’s hard to live without dream.
Phnom Penh is one of await cities for the magic boxes to light up the dream and creativity. this city is waiting for art performance to identity itself from the great and long-time culture. we should organize more activities, to reunite people, to communicate and get more understanding about each other.
life is not only to be lived for making money.
anyway there are few activities organized by CCF and few other organizations, few small cinemas we could find if we really want to. i myself never go to cinema these days. i heard recently there’s a new cinema room The Flickr but i never been there yet.
i probably go to cinema at Sorya this weekend. there’s a new film made by Khmer Mekong Film, which i joined the screen test a year ago. i still want to see the final version of the film.
Vanished is 2nd film by KMF, in form of Thriller about some beautiful girls that started to disappear one by one and we don’t really who is the murder.
the movie plot is fresh, capture the new image of the Phnom penh city and for sure you will scream out of yourself. the production crew did a lot of good work on this one. the film was directed by Tom Som (Cambodian), written by Matthew Baylis (British) and produced by Matthew Robinson (KMF’s founder).
watch out the post production activities of the movie and here after that enjoy the fabulous trailer of Vanished.
Via: Phnom Penh Post
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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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WHERE ELEPHANTS WEEP
A First Ever Khmer Rock Opera
Sam, a refugee from the Khmer Rouge genocide, leaves America and returns to his homeland, Cambodia. Committed to finding his roots in his native culture, he unexpectedly falls in love with Bopha, a Cambodian pop-star. The music fuses traditional Cambodian music with Western rock and rap. The opera will be sung in English and Khmer, with subtitles in both languages.
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The original of Khmer music is not for entertainment purpose, but to communicate with the spirits, with the god. The combination of the sound that comes from the Khmer music instruments play as a protocol to connect between the real world and the spirits.
When you put yourself get into the harmony of the Khmer traditional music, you will feel more or less the spirits around you. You will hear the sound of the nature, you would feel something invisible entourages yourself. The sound is so powerful, it will cover your soul and let you find a moment to relax in peace.
In these modern times, the traditional Khmer music still plays an important role in Cambodian society. We could hear them everywhere in various ceremonies and occasions. The traditional music is kept in a high conservation intention.
Much more than this, some French composers have arrived in Cambodia and work together with the local artists to learn about Khmer music and create something new but always respect to its original.
For example the work of Jean-Pierre Limborg, a music composer from France, on the album “Les larmes d’Angkor” is a very good remix between traditional Khmer music and modern music that capture with fidelity of Khmer music and transform it into a stage of relaxation music. When you listen to the album “Les larmes d’Angkor”, you will get contact with the nature, the music will allow you to get in touch with a very long history of Khmer music and relax yourself in a salon. It would give you a moment to escape yourself into the nature.
My favorite of the album is the 2nd song,
Under the title of “YOM – Les larmes d’Angkor”,
The children play down the street 278, in Phnom Penh. A young Cambodian woman sing in a small garden: “My heart is broken since you left …” and the voice of the students at street Paster, follow their teacher to learn to sing a song.
All combined together to create an exceptional emotion, a memory from Phnom Penh city and it reflects to the long history of Angkor temples.
It will follow by the 3th song, which certainly is a pure music that could secretly cure your heart 
It’s the first music CD in LAK and in a very soon future, there are some more review and recommendation on other music from Cambodia. Please come back later, Enjoy your music!
Buy Audio CD
Cambodge : Les Larmes d’Angkor
Jean-Pierre Limborg
Images:
1. Music of Khmer: visual_entropy
2. Apsara dancing in Siem reap – Sorry i forget the link to original file.
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