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Greetings:

Friday night in Phnom Penh find Packo’s Busking Kings at Front Bar, singer-songwriter Puzzle Muteson (UK) (see Passing Chords below) at Craft, Geography of the Moon at The Tin Hat and Summer Lee Carlson & Mute Speaker at Botanico.  Gerry the Cosmic Joker is at Tacos Kokopelli, Loopy Reggae are at The Box Office  and Aisha & Jhun are at Bat Muk Yu.  In Tuol Tom Pong, Adam Marsland is at Noisy Chili and Lakhon Luong are at Hometown Hangout.  Montra take it late at Oscar’s on the Corner.  In Siem Reap, Jam-Cha celebrate Chema’s birthday at Laundry.

On Saturday in Phnom Penh AlliG plays early at Bliss & Beats, while later Matsumura Fishworks are at The Deck, Geography of the Moon are at Craft and Siva & 4Mara are at Can Can.  Loopy Reggae are at Botanico, Rags to Rainbows blues edition are at Vinoteca and The Tuesday Welders at Bat Muk Yu.  Cloud host a Cambodian hip hop night with CodyPlug, Dimar, Daniel, YoungSavage, Elvis Flocka, CeeJay, Thero, and singer-rapper 8GK is at Uniga, and Chi-Town returns to Oscar’s on the Corner.  In Siem Reap, Brooke Palmer is at Mex’d Up.

Come Sunday, check out Stu Cottom at Villa Grange and/or Adam Marsland at  The Box Office.  For those looking to get some metal on, Oscar’s on the Corner hosts Get In The Penh XI, an early start with a line-up of Jasons (Japan), Riot in School (China), Mi-Na-Gi (Japan), Nightmare A.D. and Reign in Slumber, before things return to normal with Electric Muxu Orchestra at the usual time.

Passing Chords – a few things you may not know about

Puzzle Muteson, the musical project of Isle of Wight songwriter Terry Magson.  He has released two albums, En Garde and Theatrics, via Icelandic record label Bedroom Community.  He plays on Friday night at Craft.

Do you have a pet musical hate?
My guitar’s been cutting out recently. I think it might be haunted or simply breaking.   Also I have an issue tuning a guitar in front of people if it should go out of tune mid set.  I recently downloaded a tuner to my phone to make things easier but also my phone’s haunted – definitely broken – and does whatever it wants.   It’s a let’s just see what happens situation.

A private musical indulgence:

This isn’t so much private but the feeling was private to me.  I’ve been living in Bangkok for a while.  I love intense cities especially for photos, everything everywhere, sounds , colours , smells.  It feels like art to me, an attack on my senses.   The last couple of years I’ve been writing vocals for an electronic album – I would put the tracks on my mp3 player and just walk and write vocal parts whilst walking around, along busy roads, malls, sois.    I’d be in my own world , in a space of freedom,  singing out as I walked.  If I came up with a nice melody or lyrics I’d record /write them into my phone.  Listening wise – recently I heard Bed Chem by Sabrina Carpenter. Someone had a really bad poppy playlist on, and then that track came on and I asked who it was. The production is quite nice.

The year you first came to Cambodia:
I think around 2017 sometime for a few days.

An early music memory:
Singing to Howard Blake’s Walking in The Air maybe aged 4 or 5.

The last thing you had to eat:
I just had lok lak.

Stagefright: yes or no?
Yes and no, depending on the gig.  Recently no, but sometimes in the past yes if it’s a festival show or something with bigger expectations / attendance energy.

A country you want to visit:
Brazil.

A book or movie you keep going back to:
Enter The Void.

What languages do you have?
Barely English. I find it hard to digest certain things.

Your primary instrument, and when you started playing it?
Guitar – I started playing it intensely around aged 18.

Something people might be surprised to know about you:
I cry on first dates. So far they’ve not been going so well.  If anyone’s into tears give me a nudge.

You have a time machine and a magic ticket to one gig or festival in the past  – what do you choose?
Live Aid in 1985 – I’d find my mum and aunty in the crowd and we’d get blown away by Queen’s performance together. It’s a kind of magic.

A question from the last participant : What is your ultimate favorite pizza and which is the most important ingredient: crust, sauce, or cheese?
Any pizza without pineapple. The only thing that pineapple should go on is pineapple. The right amount ingredient wise.

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Keiko Kitamura celebrates her birthday in percussive style with Rags to Rainbows at Craft, Friday 31 January 2025

 

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