Tom Vater

Just received author copies of Moon Angkor Wat. Hurray!!! Out now in all good book shops in North America. Photographs by Aroon Thaewchatturat.

February 1st, 2013 | Tags: 2013, Angkor Wat, Aroon Thaewchatturat, Cambodia, guide book, Khmer, Moon Angkor Wat, Moon Books, Moon Guides, Tom Vater, USA | Category: Cambodia | Leave a comment

Director Marc Eberle will shoot his next film Cambodia Rocks! for the BBC’s Storyville. Marc has been following Cambodian singer Srey Thy and her band The Cambodian Space Project from its inception three years ago in Phnom Penh. Since then, The Cambodian Space Project has launched numerous space music explorations around the world, most notably [...]

November 15th, 2012 | Tags: 1960s, Aung San Suu Kyi: The Choice, BBC, Cambodian music, feature documentary, Khmer, Marc Eberle, Rock and Roll, Srey Thy, Storyville, The Cambodian Space Project | Category: Cambodia | Leave a comment

Chanteuse extraordinaire Srey Thy of The Cambodian Space Project performs for the launch of my novel The Cambodian Book of the Dead, published by Crime Wave Press, at the UBUD Writers and Readers Festival in Bali, Indonesia. It was a real pleasure to have her sing for my reading. Wonderful coming together of music and [...]

October 8th, 2012 | Tags: Bali, book launch, Cambodia, crime fiction, Crime Wave Press, Julien Poulson, Khmer, novel, rock singer, song, Srey Thy, The Cambodian Book of the Dead, The Cambodian Space Project, The UBUD Writers & Readers Festival, Tom Vater | Category: Cambodia, Indonesia, Writer´s Corner | Leave a comment

My story on Cambodian street food is out in the September/October edition of Silkwinds Magazine, inflight publication for Silk Air. Photographs by Aroon Thaewchatturat. To read the feature, click on this link and proceed to page 8.

September 17th, 2012 | Tags: Aroon Thaewchatturat, Asia, Cambodia, Cambodian Street Food, eating, food, Khmer, Silk Air, Silkwinds Magazine, Street Food, Tom Vater | Category: Cambodia | Leave a comment

Film maker and long time collaborator Marc Eberle, has announced his new film project Rock Cambodia and is featured in a recent article in the Phnom Penh Post. This new feature documentary present the story of Srey Thy, the singer of The Cambodian Space Project, a Cambodia based music collective. Read the full story here. [...]

January 1st, 2012 | Tags: 1960s, Amerikas geheimer Krieg in Laos, Cambodia, Cambodian music, documentary, film director, film maker, Julien Poulson, Khmer, Marc Eberle, Phnom Penh Post, rock music, Srey Thy, The Cambodian Space Project, Tom Vater | Category: Cambodia | Leave a comment

My AWSJ feature story on Kep, a seaside resort on Cambodia´s southeastern coast, is now available online. In the 1950s and 1960s, Kep-sur-Mer was a popular beach getaway for Cambodia´s elite, who built villas and modest palaces along the beach front and sipped cocktails to the sounds of Khmer Rock’n’Roll. In the 1970s the small [...]

February 24th, 2011 | Tags: Asia, Asia Wall Street Journal, beach, Cambodia, Cambodian, Cambodian Riviera, Center for Thai and ASEAN News Study, feature story, Kep, Kep sur Mer, Khmer, Khmer Rock'n'Roll, Luke Duggleby, seaside, The Asia Wall Street Journal, Tom Vater, travel, travel journalism, Weekend Magazine | Category: Cambodia | Leave a comment

My new guide to the ruins of Angkor in Cambodia is published on the 4th of January 2011, by Germany`s largest independent travel publisher Reise Know How. The book contains almost a hundred color images by photographer Aroon Thaewchatturat, as well as maps of all the temples, a fold-out plan of the Angkor Archaeological Park [...]

January 3rd, 2011 | Tags: Angkor, Angkor Archaelogical Park, Angkor Ruinen, Angkor Thom, Aroon Thaewchatturat, Autor, Cambodia, City Trip, guide book, Kambodscha, Khmer, Reise-Know-How, Reiseführer, Scott Nicholson, Siem Reap, Tom Vater, travel writer, writer | Category: Cambodia, Germany | Leave a comment

The Cambodian Space Project, a rock band cum music-collective based in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, are preparing their multicultural act for export. The band, founded a year ago by Australian guitar player and musical director Julian Poulson and Khmer chanteuse Srey Thy, have played a couple of hundred shows around Cambodia, recorded an album, toured Hong [...]

December 11th, 2010 | Tags: Arn Chorn Pond, Cambodia, Cambodian Space project, culture, Jon Spencer, Julian Poulson, Khmer, Khmer music, khmer musician, Khmer Rock and Roll, Kong Nay, multi-cultural, musician, Phnom Penh, rock music, Srey Thy, world music | Category: Cambodia | Leave a comment

And here´s another new song from the busy Cambodian Space Project who are currently warming up for their first Australian tour with a string of dates around Cambodia. Mondulkiri is a musical departure from earlier CSP material, more dancy, more laid back, more chilled out, some would say more contemporary. The beautifully shot video (possibly [...]

November 1st, 2010 | Tags: Asian pop music, Asian rock music, Cambodia, Cambodian music, Cambodian rock music, CSP, dance music, Khmer, Mondulkiri, music Cambodia, Phnom Penh, promo video, Rock Cambodia, Srey Thy, The Cambodian Space Project, Tom Vater | Category: Cambodia | Leave a comment