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Greetings:

This weekend we welcome back Kampot Radio (once Radio Oun) back to the airwaves – find it at KampotRadio.com.  They will celebrate with a Sunday evening concert by Frankie Teardrop Dead at the renamed Samleng Meas live lounge.

Visiting Phnom Penh this weekend from Kampot are Summer Lee Carlson & Mute Speaker who are bringing their live beats show to Voodoo Boulevard on Friday and Meta House on Saturday.

On Thursday night in Phnom Penh find The Broken Cymbal at Big Mama and Dennis at Can Can, open mics at LOLA Music Lounge and Cloud and The Extraordinary Chambers late at Oscar’s on the Corner.  In Kampot, find electronica with Aphty Khea at KAPAL.

Friday night in Phnom Penh get started with live tango piano and dancing with Metta Legita at Sra’Art, then Arome Khmer are at Craft and Ice & Joven at Botanico, while Antonio & the Playful Minds are at Back Street Lounge TTP, Matthew Fischer is at Noisy Chili and Mary & Takeshi return to Cloud.  Later on Geography of the Moon are joined by DJs at Meta House and The Lark is at Oscar’s on the Corner.  In Siem Reap, Cesar & Ray are at Ubuntu, and it’s the beginning of a three day opening weekend for the Royal Sport Club featuring Prokum & Sokunthea, The Art of Groove and DJs.

On Saturday, Woody Dares & the Frog Eaters at The Deck and Colin, Keiko & Kevin are at Craft, Muxu is at Botanico and Miss Sarawan is at Lantern.  Wind-Up Mice plus L’Amant Dans le Placard are at Hometown Hangout, Brooke Palmer is at Sundance and Deli-Zone (Japan) join with Seyha Ha and DJ at Cloud.  Later on, The Lark at Duplex and The Fender Benders are at Oscar’s on the Corner.  In Kampot, Geography of the Moon are at Monkey Republic.  A choice in Siem Reap between Electric Soup, Wildmen and JamCha at Laundry, Rebirth Club (Japan) at Atlantis and Sokunthea & Friends at Ben’s Corner.

In Sunday in Phnom Penh, Brooke Palmer is at The Deck, Miss Sarawan & Scoddy are at The Vine and the Sunday Sundowners open mic is hosted by Mike McCann at Tacos Kokopelli and Joe Wrigley is at Bar Oz.  There’s a choice of classical events with Camerata doing opera at Green Pepper and YiLing Chaing & Issei Sakano performing works by 19th Century female composers at Raffles Le Royal.  The Originals/Living Room Sessions present Maozi, Chris Jacob and Matthew Fischer at Back Street Bar, and later on Electric Muxu Orchestra are at Oscar’s on the Corner.  In Siem Reap, Prokum are at New Leaf.  And of course Frankie Teardrop Dead at the renamed Samleng Meas live lounge in Kampot.

Department of Off-Shore News

Our friends Japan Guitar Shop have been written up in online magazine The Lunar Collective.  Read all about it.

Passing Chords – a few things you may not know about

Summer Lee Carlson.  Summer is an expat singer/songwriter hailing from “Unclaimed Canada,” (aka: The Upper Peninsula of Michigan in the USA.) She joined the “It was only supposed to be one year and I’m still abroad” club upon moving to South Korea in 2009. Since moving to Kampot 8 years ago, she has had the fortune of being part of quite a few musical projects, including Notes From a Girly Bar, Juke Jux, Trowsers Down, Low Season Riders (still going,) and now a new Live Beats all-original-music project with Mute Speaker – you can catch Live Beats this weekend in Phnom Penh at Voodoo Boulevard on Friday and Meta House on Saturday, then at Karma Traders in Kampot on Tuesday.

Do you have a pet musical hate?
When things are off key or out of tune (including myself!) ha.

A private musical indulgence:
I’m guessing this means a guilty pleasure? I don’t think so. I used to be a bit snobby about music when I was younger, but accepting that I never have been and never will be cool has helped slap that out of me. I like good music. Period. Doesn’t matter who makes it or the genre. If it is played well and brings out emotions, it’s good. My playlists are a hodgepodge of everything.

The year you first came to Cambodia:
2016, I think. I am terrible with keeping track of stuff like that and just had to check FB photos to find out!

An early music memory:
I’ve sung since I was 3 and my family traveled around doing “Von Trapp” style concerts. My Mom put me in these Shirley Temple dresses and propped me up on table tops to sing. When we visited senior citizen retirement homes, I learned quickly that traipsing around in the audience after shows meant I’d get loads of candy & money tucked into my hands. So I guess I figured out busking (and working a crowd) from the start, ha.

The last thing you had to eat:
Oatmeal with eggs, banana, apple, kiwi and peanut butter.

A country you want to visit:
I’ve always wanted to go to Ireland. I’m sure I’ve romanticized it but I love green and the sound of the music (and the accent!)

A book or movie you keep going back to:
“East of Eden” by John Steinbeck. I’ve read it at least 4 times. There are so many good lines (and entire passages) and things to learn/process about life in that book (and all of his books really) but I especially love this one. “Laughter comes later, like wisdom teeth, and laughter at yourself comes last of all in a mad race with death, and sometimes it isn’t in time.”

What languages do you have?
I only speak English, unfortunately. I’ve picked up completely unrelated (therefore useless) words/lines in Korean, small bits of Spanish (from highschool) and a few in Khmer. I know some swear words in a variety of languages, so I don’t know what that says about my brain.

Your primary instrument, and when you started playing it:
Singing is my primary instrument. I started when I was 3.. I used to play alto sax for seven + years as well. I also played piano from childhood (very poorly) and into college (a little less so but still poorly) then promptly forgot all of it after moving abroad and no longer practicing. I picked up a few guitar chords but I have this habit of trying to do way too many things all the time and that gets in the way of learning it properly.

Something people might be surprised to know about you:
I used to be an extreme tomboy. I refused to shower much (which is gross) well into my teen years, loved being outside, climbing trees, fishing, camping, catching frogs and hated the color pink. I also would not wear dresses unless my Mom absolutely forced me to. Now I’m obsessed with them (and many are pink.)

You have a time machine and a magic ticket to one gig or festival in the past. What do you choose?
I read this article about a horrific concert at the Isle of Wight, with tons of cold and wind and rain, and thereby, an incredibly cranky audience. They managed to make Joni Mitchell cry. booed Kris Kristofferson and set the stage on fire during Jimi Hendrix. I don’t want to go for that reason (I love those guys, I’d be heartbroken for them) BUT it also talked about how, on the very last day, when the organizers were sure it was about to end in shambles, Leonard Cohen (one of my favorite songwriters) came on stage. They had actually wrestled him out of bed to go do his set at 2 am and he looked like it. And he started telling a story. The crowd completely ate it up, calmed down and listened to him in rapture until 4 am and he saved the festival. We all know it’s how it starts and ends that people remember most. I would give anything to have heard that and been there.

A question from the last participant: what is your favourite type of sushi?
I’m not a big rice eater, so I love sashimi as then I’m not wasting it.

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