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Greetings,

On Thursday in Phnom Penh, getting an early start are Gareth Bawden at DIB Club and Busking Kings at Ponytails, later on Joe Wrigley is at Botanico and The Extraordinary Chambers are at Oscar’s on the Corner.

 On a quiet Friday in Phnom Penh, find Miss Sarawan at Craft and Kevin Sysyn at Duplex then K’n’E at Oscar’s on the Corner.  Elsewhere  Kampot Playboys continue their rainy season tour at Pomme Battambang and Sokunthea & Andrey play Villa D in Siem Reap.

 On Saturday in Phnom Penh there are a couple of opportunities to catch up with what’s going on in the Khmer music world – Treellion Talent Club at Treellion Park in the afternoon features Chor Yee & Lim, Vixal, Dane and X Brothers, and the somewhat louder Phnom Metal event at Cloud promises Nightmare AD, Doch Chkae, As The Heart Betrays and Memo Band.  Also of note is the Art & Jazz event with Intan Andriana at One Park, Spiked Gravy at Back Street Bar, The Broken Cymbal at Central Café and K’n’E at Oscar’s on the Corner.  Graham Cain is at Kep Natural in Kep, and the Kampot Playboys play Laundry Bar in Siem Reap.

 Come Sunday in Siem Reap, Kampot Playboys play a late afternoon show at New Leaf, and later Sokunthea, Andrey & Patrick are at Villa D.

In Phnom Penh Post last week was an interview with Keat Sokim about some new Khmer music textbooks and his on-going work in fusing Cambodian and western music.  Early this year his work with Blues Routes resulted in a performance for the Cambodian Living Arts Cultural Season, covered in this LengPleng interview.

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Passing Chords:  a few things you might not know about…

Ukham Chiet, the charismatic lead singer of the Kampot Playboys, who are back again to reclaim their position as the best band in Cambodia with the Rainy Season Tour that this weekend takes in Pomme Battambang, then Laundry Bar and New Leaf in Siem Reap.  He is also branching into more western music with new outfit 4Riel.

Do you have a pet musical hate?
Basically I don’t really hate any music, it all sounds fine to me

A private musical indulgence:
When I am alone: hip hop, underground, rock – all kinds of music depending on my mood or the weather

The year you first left Cambodia:
In 2009 I went to Australia

An early music memory:
Sin Sisamuth on cassettes, and Imagine by John Lennon from The Killing Fields

The last thing you had to eat:
Rice, pork and braised eggs

A country you want to visit:
Germany

A book or movie you keep going back to:
Big fish

What languages do you have?
Khmer and English

Your main instrument:
Guitar and hand drum

Something people might be surprised to know about you:
I was supposed to be a primary school teacher

You have a time machine and a magic ticket to one gig or festival in the past.  What do you choose?
Apsara dance and music back during the Angkor period

A question from the last participant: what tricks do you have for learning song lyrics, particularly in different languages?
I can read and write English – I just choose songs that I like the most

Steve Porte Photo of the Week

 Vy Nget, well renowned tro sau player with the Kampot Playboys (also highly in demand for Khmer events, particularly during wedding season), who are this weekend playing in Battambang and Siem Reap.  Pictured here at Oscar’s on the Corner on Friday, 22 March, 2019.

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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 21 July 2022

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