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Greetings,

In Phnom Penh it’s one of those weekends that starts early, with Thursday offering Geography of the Moon at Sundance and Scoddy Bywater at Botanico, along with the many Thursday residencies, and the open mic jams at Cloud and Bosporus.

On Friday Two Country Drunks get together at Odom Gardens, Gerard Evans is at Green Pepper, The Blue Souls are at Bosporus and UK singer-songwriter Billy Page makes his stage return to the city at Duplex, while Khmer Surin restaurant starts up an open mic.  In Kampot, Poca & Gonzalo commence their mini-tour with a show at DeliCious, and in Siem Reap Jam-Cha are at The Harbour.

On Saturday in Phnom Penh Geography of the Moon play The Box Office and Delicia & Friends are at Lantern.  In Siem Reap Alpaca Lips are at Arin’s, and in Kampot Poca & Gonzalo are open up before the Samurai Saloon open mic.

**For the rest of the gigs check out the listings at the bottom of the page**

If you wondered what the Seila Records New Year metal show looked like, here’s Doch Chkae performing Do What You Love.

Congratulations to Japan Guitar Shop for their win in the inaugural Khmer Nights 2021 Live Band of Year readers’ poll, along with their comrades Uncomfortably White Brothers, Little Thieves, Joe & the Jumping Jacks and First World Problems.

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A Leng Pleng Special Feature

 This year Around the Traps 2021 and Passing Chords Vol III appear in the same volume.  Copies are available now; a launch will be held on Thursday 20th at Oscar’s on the Corner, with a listening party for the upper third of the RadioOun Top 100 Songs of All Time – dominated by Cambodian artists.  Further details next week.

Note: there’s a 10,000R/$2.50 discount if you’re in the book.

In the meantime, here are some of LengPleng’s favourite moments from the book.

 

The Leng Pleng Weekly Feature

It’s a good start: Sokim Keat and Chapei Diary

Blues Routes, originally a collaboration between Pavel Ramirez, Colin Grafton and Keiko Kitamura, began experimenting with some gigs adding Sokim Keat, a player of the chapei dong veng, the Cambodian two stringed lute, looking for ways to integrate the chapei into a blues context.

Late last year Cambodian Living Arts created an opportunity to apply for a grant to put together performances for their Cultural Season in January and February 2022.  Our intrepid quartet swiftly wrote up a successful proposal; then they had to come up with something.

“We have performed many times at a pub or at a gallery, but with me as the only Cambodian artist,” explains Sokim.  “We were so happy to get the grant, but also nervous and surprised, as Cambodian musicians applying to work with musicians from other cultures.  We started to think about what songs we could play, we got a storyline, a narrative about the chapei, an adventure from the traditional form to the contemporary.”

Read the whole article here.

Steve Porte Photo of the Week

Intan Andriana and Gaby Courroux, playing Sunset Boulevard’s inaugural Eclectic Live, Wednesday 12 January, 2022

 

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See you around the traps.
your correspondent,

Guillermo Wheremount
LengPleng.com
gigs@lengpleng.com (mailto:gigs@lengpleng.com)

 

 

Weekly Gig Guide – week commencing Thursday 13 January 2022

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