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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.
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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 town on [...]
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 and [...]
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 Kong [...]
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 filmed on [...]
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Together with photographer Luke Duggleby, I visited Kep, a small town on Cambodia´s south eastern coast.
First populated by French colonial administrators at the beginning of the 20th century, Kep became something like Cambodia´s St. Tropez in the 1960s, with rock bands playing on the beach and King Norodom Sihanouk cavorting and partying as if there´d [...]
I have spent the past few days in the Angkor ruins in Cambodia.
As it is the end of the hot season in South East Asia and as recent turmoil in neighboring Thailand has scared all but the hardiest tourists (Koreans, for the most part) away, the temples that see a couple of million visitors a [...]
Tom Vater’s up-coming travel guide to Cambodia, a Moon Handbook, will be published in February 2010. For this first edition title, Tom spent almost six months traveling to every corner of the South East Asian kingdom, covering all major and many minor sites - from Angkor Wat to remote temple ruins lost in the jungle, [...]