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Greetings,

Of note in Phnom Penh tonight, a farewell show for Yuval Riklis at Bosporus featuring his bands The Broken Cymbal and Falafel Con Mate, while in Kampot you can find Chiet Ukham with Mark & Max at Black Cat.

On Friday Happy Happy Smile Band are joined by Ernie Buck at Botanico@Odom Garden, it’s a first-gig-back for Graham Cain at Sundance, and Hugo Marcellesi is at Lantern. Later on, Checkered Past are at Duplex and Spiked Gravy mix it up with Skin & String at Sunset Boulevard.  Oscar’s on the Corner hosts a fundraiser for Lee & Mel Nutter with a triple bill:  The Extraordinary Chambers, Joe & the Jumping Jacks, and Cambodia Country Band.  In Siem Reap, Jam-Cha rhyme with Star Bar.

Saturday is International Jazz Day – see the Leng Pleng feature interview and the big news is the Treelion Park International Jazz Day music fest, featuring Funky Chicken, Blue Wave, Chor Yee, The Blue Souls, Sabor Caribe, Lady Yay, Sharon Lui, Heather Smith and Mirasoul.  Next door at Coconut Park you can find Son Sabor Trio. For dance rock, check out the return of Joshua Chiang’s Psykic Elektric at  Cloud, for Latin Havana Nice are at Prince Brewing and for more jazz  Funky Chicken play first at Au Marche rooftop and then head to Oscar’s on the Corner, where Ernie Buck will be warming up the stage for them. 

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

Culled from various fan videos, here is a look at the return of Nightmare AD at Cloud last weekend.  And from the previous night at the same venue, a video of Joshua Chiang’s song Won’t Fade Away from the new album Everything Under The Sun performed by The Boxchords.

Siem Reap punky quartet The Wildmen have released a five track EP, recorded at 60 Road Studios, on Soundcloud and also Bandcamp.  Leng Pleng stand-outs: Walk the Talk and It Is What It Is.

And coming soon to Bandcamp (from the laboratory of Professor Kinski), with a special listening party launch at Tacos Kokopelli, an eight track album of the songs of Ariane Parkes.  You’ll have to wait until Friday 13 May.

The Leng Pleng Feature

Part of a global celebration: International Jazz Day

Saturday 30 April is the UNESCO International Jazz Day, a worldwide celebration that has been held annually since 2011 “to highlight jazz and its diplomatic role of uniting people in all corners of the globe”.  Concerts and events will be held across seven continents, from Albania to Mexico to Zimbabwe, and this year Phnom Penh has one of the larger events in Indochina.  Treellion Park on Koh Pich will host eight hours of a variety of styles under the jazz umbrella.  Organiser Phil Javelle sat down with Leng Pleng to talk about Saturday and all that jazz.

“I’d say Phnom Penh is definitely a jazz city.  When I arrived 12 years ago and set up Studio 182, the jazz club at Topaz, it was pretty much the only place where jazz was – and it wasn’t contemporary jazz, it was more popular swing and Latin jazz.  But these days there is a great diversity of musicians, lots of jam sessions where people come and play, much more than you find in Bangkok or Kuala Lumpur.  There’s not so much competition, it’s very open.”

Read the entire article here 

 

Steve Porte Photo of the Week

Ernie Buck back in town at The Vine, Wednesday, 27 April, 2022.

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your correspondent,

Guillermo Wheremount
LengPleng.com
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Weekly Gig Guide – week commencing Thursday 28 April 2022

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