Category: Articles and Interviews

Visiting jazzmen from Japan, keyboardist Ken Kawamura and soprano sax player Jose Terada are in town this weekend for two gigs – Friday 7 at...

The last couple of years has seen an acceleration in international touring bands passing through Phnom Penh – to our benefit! – as part of...

What’s so funny ‘bout the Stiff Little Punks and the Sexiest Singer in the UK? Ten years ago, back in the day when a Phnom...

Ingolv Haaland is a ‘freelance musician/composer/arranger/producer, programmer and professor’ from Norway. Haaland has composed, performed and produced five albums of fusion music which successfully blended...

On the eve of the release of her debut studio album, Indonesian jazz piano phenomenon Metta Legita talked with Leng Pleng about how the tracks...

There’s a new player in town: guitar and bass and vocals, knows how to run a band and how to get the most out of...

The Importance of Serendipity, Originality and… Airbnb ! Hameer Zawawi is an independent singer-songwriter from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. A self-confessed video game and movie aficionado, Hameer...

Garuda is the highly-anticipated debut release of celebrated Cambodian fusion band The Kampot Playboys. Since 2011, the group founded by bassist Mark Chattaway and vocalist/guitarist...

On the first anniversary of independent alternative station Kampot Radio, Darryl ‘Corporal’ Carter composed some thoughts for Leng Pleng (all pics supplied): Kampot Radio has...

Hi Joe! We heard that your trio touched down at Banyan Tree in Kampot last week. How did the gig go and what other Cambodian...

Beth Patterson is a multi-instrumentalist, performer and songwriter specialising in the eight-stringed bouzouki – a huge-sounding instrument brought to Greece from Asia in the 1900s...

“This is my 24K Magic!” Deep in the back streets of Phnom Penh, inside a home studio in an apartment block in Tuol Svay Prey,...

Justin Salisbury is the latest piano phenomenon from the U.S.A. to visit Kampot for a run of live performances at Equinox. On the eve of...

The Folk Art and Blues Festival is a six day series of music and arts events taking place in Phnom Penh, Kampot, Sihanoukville and Siem...

Welcome to Cambodia! It’s great to see that you have managed to dive right into the music scene here, with several gigs planned in Phnom...

Hi Craig! What’s on your set list for the residency at Equinox ? Will you be playing a combination of originals and covers? Hi Joe!...

READ PART ONE HERE all pics courtesy of Steve Porte Representatives of The Office Of The High Commissioner For Human Rights with the Governor of...

Research shows that music benefits our mental and physical health in numerous ways, Music has been found to help cancer patients communicate their feelings, manage...

PlanB are an eight-piece ‘Rock’n’Soul’ band from Adelaide, Australia. Inspired by originators like Dexy’s Midnight Runners and the great Stax Records groups, PlanB combine a...

Ahead of their second-ever visit to Cambodia, Leng Pleng forwarded a few key questions to the stunning Diana Bailey Band. Bangkok, Saigon, Phnom Penh… you...

by Julien Poulson Night of the Iguana: What does Iggy Pop, a brazen cat burglar and Cambodia’s nascent music scene have in common? May well...

Michael Bridgett is Mike Dynamo – MC/singer in the happening Phnom Penh band Hypnotic Fist Technique. When the mixed-genre 6-piece played the recent Golden Street...