***for full gig listings jump to the bottom***

Greetings,

A quieter weekend than previous as we prepare for the pre-New Year madness, but still plenty to choose from.

Tomorrow night in Phnom Penh you can find Takeshi Band at Craft,  Felafel Con Maté, at Odom Garden and Pocket Change at Le Moon Rooftop. 12me has a special night with Sup Lina on roneet and Metta Legita on piano at Sora Sky Bar.  Later in the evening, new trio Crossing Roads at Bosporus and K’n’E at Oscar’s on the Corner.

In Siem Reap, Kodi, Lucky & Mark and Alpaca Lips are at Wine O’clock, Geography of the Moon are on the road in Battambang at The Balcony.

Notable on Saturday is the Checkered Past EP launch at Back Street Bar, and Original Artist Showcase II  featuring Cove (Japan Guitar Shop), Gary (Little Thieves) and Jack (The Goldilocks Zone) at Sunset Boulevard.   Elsewhere, Hugo plays The Glasshouse, NaBee & Vorn Memo are at Cloud  and Alli G Trio (featuring Chema and Amed) are at Oscar’s on the Corner.  In Siem Reap, Geography of the Moon are at Star Bar and there’s the jazz of Kurious Keys at The Harbour.

Coming soon to Kampot is an exhibition by Markus Dixon – Street Knowledge: The Kingdom of Hustles, which will also feature the live performance of Golden Era based music put together by Mute Speaker – The Kingdom of Hustles Mixtape.  Read all about it here.

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

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


Pervez Gulzar.  Pervez has played percussion with a variety of combos in Phnom Penh over the past few years, notably Boxchords and PRERNA.  Find him on Friday night at Bosporus with new trio Crossing Roads, playing “original songs in French, a musical voyage with notes of reggae, ska, sounds of the tropics and African rhythms.”

Do you have a pet musical hate?
During my childhood I had a dog that loved music.  Whenever I banged on my tablas he started to wave his tail, but I hated when he would grab my tabla hammer

A private musical indulgence:
Playing percussion with like-minded musicians is actually a musical indulgence which allows me to get involved with fusion-type music

The year you first came to Cambodia:
I came in Cambodia on March 2009

An early music memory:
I grew up in a Christian family where everyone must follow the Christian values. I started playing tablas in family church gatherings where tablas and harmonium are the prime instruments. I used to watch my cousin plays tablas, which motivated me to get into tablas, all the different rhythms. I used to listen lots of Sufi music and my favorite singer was the late Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, a legend of Kawali and Sufi music. I loved pop music as well – Fusion was one of my favorite Pakistani pop music bands, Whenever they performed live I tried to watch their shows, which inspired me that I could perform in front of an audience like them. When I came to Cambodia I did not have tablas, but I couldn’t find a shop to sell tablas, so shifted my skills to use the cajon, bongos, darbuka and electric drum pad as a fusion instruments in order to produce some sort of west/east rhythms.  And it went well

The last thing you had to eat:
Chicken Biryani

A country you want to visit:
There are couple of countries that I want to visit such as Japan, Korea, Switzerland and Canada

A book or movie you keep going back to:
Movie : 3 Idiots (an Indian movie)
Book : Line-of-Fire by Pervez Musharruf

What languages can you speak?
Urdu, Punjabi, basic Khmer and English

Your primary instrument, and when you started playing it:
Tabla is my primary instrument and I started playing at the age of 15

Something people might be surprised to know about you:
I am a cricketer and a good chef

You have a time machine and a magic ticket to one gig or festival in the past.  What do you choose?
I would go to any possible gig with great music!

A question from the last participant: Have you ever met anyone famous?  If so, who and under what circumstances?
I wish I could meet a famous celebrity but it has never happened so far

Steve Porte Photo of the Week

12me, currently doing a farewell lap of honour around Phnom Penh after many prolific musical years in the Kingdom, seen here at Sofitel Spring Festival, Friday, 25 March, 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 31 March 2022

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For DJs and clubs, we recommend Phnom Penh Underground

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Coming soon:

  • Big Tay Out Festival with Japan Guitar Shop, Geography of the Moon and Visa Runs, 8 April, Sam’s
  • Miss Sarawan, 8 April, Craft
  • The Broken Symbol, 9 April, Meta House
  • Intan & Friends, 9 April, New Leaf (Siem Reap)

 

By Weekly Wrap