Sacred Skin at Phnom Penh Airport
Sacred Skin, my book on Thailand’s sacred tattoos, for sale at Phnom Penh Airport, Monument Books.
But who’s the dodgy looking guy on the left?
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The Most Secret Place on Earth on pirate DVD….in Cambodia
On a recent trip to Cambodia, I noticed that my first non fiction book Beyond the Pancake Trench is still being sold as a bootleg photocopy in Siem Reap bookshops.
I was browsing the shelves of a pirate DVD shop in Phnom Penh a couple days ago, when I found, much to my surprise, that The [...]
Sacred Skin goes regional - Phnom Penh Airport!
Sacred Skin, my new book on Thailand´s sacred tattoos, Sak Yant, is now available at Phnom Penh Airport in Cambodia, courtesy of Monument Books who took a few boxes of Sacred Skin off our hands.
Photograph by Kraig Lieb.
On the Road to RocknRoll - With the Cambodian Space Project
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 [...]
Leonard Cohen Show in Phnom Penh Postponed
Extraordinary songster, Canadian national treasure and godfather of pessimism, Leonard Cohen, was due to play a live show at the Olympic Stadium in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on November 27th. The show, his last before returning to the US on his current world tour, has been canceled.
The Mekong Sessions, local promoters for the concert, announced that [...]
Mondulkiri - The Cambodian Space Project
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 [...]
Cambodia´s First Seven Inch Single since the 1970s - The Cambodian Space Project Launch Party
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 [...]
Cambodia´s UN Tribunal - KR Comrade Duch to serve less than half a day for each of his victims
The UN tribunal in Cambodia, set up to investigate crimes against humanity allegedly (a very small allegedly, the accused are all guilty) committed by the Khmer Rouge, finally passed its first judgment today.
The Khmer Rouge, a radical communist rebel movement, are responsible for the death of some 1.7 million people. Between 1975 and [...]
Leonard Cohen plays legendary Vann Molyvann stadium in Phnom Penh
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 [...]
Leonard Cohen in Phnom Penh
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 [...]
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