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

Greetings:

 Plenty of acts on the road this weekend and into next week.  Miserable Man is back in Cambodia for a few weeks – see our feature interview.  Also The Broken Cymbal is headed for Kampot for Bom On Touk (Water Festival) and Intan Andriana and Gerard Evans are in Siem Reap for a bunch of gigs with Giuliano Turello and others.

Kicking off the Phnom Penh weekend early is a night of regional folk musics involving all sorts of weird and wonderful instruments at Meta House: Our Music, Our Community, Our Struggle: A Night of People’s Music from Asia will feature artists from Cambodia, Thailand, Philippines, India and Bangladesh.  Meanwhile there’s Pu Toy at Botanico and Soselo Summer are playing early at Oscar’s on the Corner to be followed by The Extraordinary Chambers.  In Siem Reap, Diego & Sonita are at Fellini, Andy Luna is at Pasta La Vista and Gerard Evans, Andrey, Toma & Giuliano are at Villa D, while Art Gilbert is at Golden Time in Kampot.

In Phnom Penh on Friday Slim Jim Duo are at Botanico@Odom Garden, Miserable Man is at Craft, Maki Orkestr return to Back Street Bar and Khmer Magic Music Bus are at Bouchon Wine Bar.  Find Joshua Chiang at Cloud, Ng Elnarra & Phil at Mayazon and Graham Cain at Duplex, while Srey Ka & K’n’E are at Oscar’s on the Corner.   In Siem Reap, Ms Mikayla is at AMBAR and Giuliano Turello & Gerard Evans are at Antonio’s Villa Hotel.

Come Saturday, Miss Sarawan are at TheCommune, Gareth & Prevez are at Seekers Spirits, Chor Yee is at Craft , Graham Cain is at Botanico.  Miserable Man is at Back Street Bar and Big D Walker & The Blue Souls are at Oscar’s on the Corner.  In Siem Reap, Intan Adriana, Gerard Evans & Giuliano Turello are at Anantara Angkor Resort and Pablo Enrique is at Laundry, while in Kampot, Karma Traders celebrate their sixth anniversary with Jam-Cha plus Dean Wolf Bailey’s new punk act Scapegoat Candy.

Looking into next week, on Tuesday night the double bill of Miserable Man and The Broken Cymbal play Karma Traders.

The Leng Pleng Feature Interview  

If food be the metaphor, eat up: The Life And Times of Miserable Man 

As the touring schedule reopens for the first time since COVID days, Cambodia is continuing to see the return of performers who haven’t made if for a while – now it’s time to welcome back Miserable Man, who will be running around the kingdom for a few weeks for a long string of gigs.  A one-man band blending styles and sounds, weaving together songs out of tunes, vocal riffs, guitar, percussion, effects and humour, his love of the music is infectious.  A rich stew, or perhaps soup is a better metaphor – a variety of succulent morsels floating in a tasty broth. He sat down with Leng Pleng after a well-received show at The Vine to talk about why.

“What I’m doing is trying to sound like a band while just being a skinny Italian, using all my body,” he says.  “I started with a guitar and a tambourine – the tambourine I use is the only piece of gear that has been with me from the beginning.”

Read the whole article here

Steve Porte Photo of the Week

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pungkas, videographer and part of Alli G’s The Quilas collective, hard at work at Oscar’s on the Corner, Saturday 29 October, 2022

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See you around the traps.
your correspondent,

 

 

Guillermo Wheremount
LengPleng.com
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Weekly Gig Guide – week commencing Thursday 3 November 2022

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For DJs and clubs, we recommend Phnom Penh Underground

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*Note that Wednesday events are often not announced until early in the week – check back here for updates*

Coming soon:

  • The Broken Cymbal, 8 pm, 10 November Golden Time (Kampot)
  • Jam-Cha, 6.30 pm, 11 November, Botanico@Odom Garden
  • Christian Herve, 8.30 pm, 11 November, Cloud
  • Jam-Cha plus Scapegoat Candy, 10 pm, 11 November, Oscar’s on the Corner
  • Giuliano Turello, 8 pm, 11 November, AMBAR (Siem Reap)
  • Jam-Cha plus Scapegoat Candy, 9 pm, 12 November, Sam’s
  • Dirty Deep, 8 pm, 12 November, Au Marche
  • Miserable Man, 9 pm, 12 November, Laundry (Siem Reap)
  • Miserable Man, 4 pm, 13 November, New Leaf (Siem Reap)
  • Jam-Cha plus Scapegoat Candy, 25 November, Pomme (Siem Reap)
  • Blues tribute to Pancho with The Ghostboosters, 7 pm, 15 December, White Cobra Bar
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