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

Greetings:

Special performances this week in Kampot by chappei player Kong Boran, at The Bay on Thursday and Monkey Republic on Friday. “Kong Boran is one of a handful of younger chappei players keeping the tradition alive, following in the footsteps of his father, Master Kong Nay.  His performance is a chance to experience authentic Cambodian music, a glimpse in to the distant past.”

Tonight in Phnom Penh you can find Gaby Sometime & Alli G at Botanico and The Extraordinary Chambers at Oscar’s on the Corner.  Graham Cain is at Golden Time in Kampot and The Groovy Tuk Tuks debut at Villa D in Siem Reap.

On Friday in Phnom Penh, Craft hosts The Broken Cymbal, Scoddy Bywater is at Tacos Kokopelli and Intan Andriana is at Baldwin’s.  Later on, Amok Soul are at Hideout, Big D Walker & The Blue Souls are at Back Street Bar and Sound Borders are at Duplex.  Later still, The Extraordinary Chambers play Oscar’s on the Corner.  In Siem Reap, Mikaela is at AMBAR.

On Saturday in Phnom Penh, Gareth Bawden & Pervez Gulzar are at Seekers Spirits, Metta Legita at Green Pepper and Miss Sarawan are at Craft.  Find a live hip-hop performance by Matsumura Fishworks at Voodoo Boulevard, and The Extraordinary Chambers go late at Oscar’s on the Corner. Graham Cain is at Kep Natural and Cambodian singer Aryaa is at Antonio’s Villa Hotel in Siem Reap.

Radio Oun Top 100 Songs of All Time Poll 2022

Voting is underway!  Perennial favourites such as Kampot Playboys, Geography of the Moon and Cambodian Space Project are well represented, as are previous high placegetters like Ernie Buck, Joshua Chiang, Sochi & Stan and Danver Dannang, as well as nomination newcomers such as Ariane Parkes, Gareth Bawden, Checkered Past and Clay George.  The full list of nominations is on the station’s Facebook page.

Your votes can be delivered in a number of different ways:

Tune in to Radio Oun from noon on New Year’s Eve to hear the countdown live to air and cheer your favourites from the sidelines and laugh at the team slurring their words later in the day as they work on emptying the beer fridge.

You can find a YouTube playlist of most nominations here https://www.youtube.com/playlist…

The Leng Pleng feature article

A brief overview of 2022 as seen from LengPleng.com

Leng Pleng takes a look at the year in review, remembering some highlights, trends and changes.

Next week it’s your turn: what do you consider the best moments in live music in Cambodia in 2022?   gigs@lengpleng.com

Read the article here

Passing Chords – a few things you may not know about

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Stuart Cottom.  Australian singer and guitarist Stuart Cottom was for a while the only barang semi-regular performer in Battambang; this year he relocated to Phnom Penh and has been doing the round of open mics.  He now hosts the Sunday Sessions at Bar Oz on the riverside – this weekend it will be held at the special Christmas Day time of 7 pm.

Do you have a pet musical hate?
It’s less a musical hate than a musical performance hate. Whenever I don’t know a song off by heart, I hate having to sing to my music score or phone and not sing to the audience.

A private musical indulgence:
Aretha Franklin, Celine Dion, Mariah Carey, Pink and other powerful female singers with huge vocal ranges.

The year you first came to Cambodia:
I visited Siem Reap and Angkor Wat in November 2011, but was offered a job and moved to Battambang in 2013. Lived in Camodia ever since and moved to Phnom Penh in April this year.

An early music memory:
Listening to our cat caterwauling to a cassette tape soundtrack of Cats on our way to have her spayed in Tamworth. We ended up having an accident in Scone going over a frozen bridge and never making it to vet, so she had to wait.

The last thing you had to eat:
Hot wings at Lone Star on St 23. Excellent.

A country you want to visit:
Ever since I was a kid watching Jacques Cousteau exploring the Amazon River, I’ve wanted to visit Brazil. Somehow, it is the only continent I have yet to visit. Cuba is also on my bucket list.

A book or movie you keep going back to:
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein: The Modern Prometheus which is surprisingly different from the depictions in films and popular culture.

What languages do you have?
English, a lttle French and a smattering of Khmer.

Your primary instrument, and when you started playing it:
I guess my primary instrument is my voice and I’ve been singing for as long as I can remember. I really fell in love with singing doing musical theatre and playing Oliver in an amateur musical theatre troupe called Kalang Kapers in 1984.  I have owned a guitar since 1998 (which I still have) but only really started learning to play this year. Before that I was a paint by numbers guitar player but I’ve been focusing on learning key signatures, relative major and minor keys, notes on the fret board, scales, ear training and using more than just the first four frets.

Something people might be surprised to know about you:
In 1999 I worked on Baz Luhrmann’s first film, Strictly Ballroom in the Sound Department.  And I used to work as a phlebotomist.

You have a time machine and a magic ticket to one gig or festival in the past. What do you choose?
An early gig by Miles Davis or Dizzy Gillespie. Seeing incredible artists as they are just starting out.

A question from the last participant: Dead or alive, one person you can choose, who would you love to work with? Why?
I’d love to play and/or sing with Alicia Keys and just get her to help me vocally.

Steve Porte Photo of the Week

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Many angles of Japan Guitar Shop at Craft on Saturday 17 December, 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 22 December 2022

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