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There´s lots of great music coming out of Cambodia right now. Check the fantabulous, beautiful and seriously RocknRoll Cambodian Space Project, a retro garage psychedelic music collective from Phnom Penh, headed by singer Srey Thy and guitarist Julian Poulson.
The Cambodian Space Project have just released a single, called I´m Unsatified, the first vinyl to [...]
Canadian singer and songwriter Leonard Cohen is playing a one-off concert in Phnom Penh, Cambodia on November 27th. To introduce Cambodians to Mr. Cohen´s body of work, Bayon TV will show excerpts of Leonard Cohen´s Live in London concert as part of the channel´s Music Box show.
This may seem hardly newsworthy, but Mr. Cohen´s concert [...]
The seers have been consulted, the dotted lines are signed, the back-line is being oiled and squeaked as I write this.
Leonard Cohen, poet, writer, singer, sometimes zen monk and full-time visionary is opening The Mekong Sessions, a concert series to be held in the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh, on November 27th 2010.
Proceeds from this concert [...]
The excellent instrumental surf guitar punk band The Klong Riders recently performed a nostalgia set at The Overstay, formerly a brothel, currently a squat, scuzzy guest house and sometime concert venue in Bangkok, Thailand. Plenty of beer spilled on the cracked linoleum floor, plus sonic terror and an audience as enthusiastic as a castle of [...]
It’s official!
Legendary songsmith and Canadian national treasure Leonard Cohen is playing a one-off show in Phnom Penh, on November 27th 2010, likely to add a positive footnote to Cambodia’s turbulent history and present the re-emerging Cambodian capital as a stage for international events for the first time in decades - probably since King Norodom [...]