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Had the pleasure to hang out with Italian writer, traveler and former punk rock impresario Marco Ferrarese. Marco, who has lived in Asia for four years and is currently a resident of Penang in Malaysia, runs the website Monkeyrockworld, which focuses on young people’s travel and alternative youth culture in Asia, or as its author [...]
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.
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Christmas Day saw the first performance by the Cambodian Space Project in Bangkok, Thailand.
Founded a year ago by Khmer singer Srey Thy and Australian artist/musician Julien Poulson, the band are based in Phnom Penh and have played some 200 shows in the past twelve months, in Hong Kong, France and Cambodia. They have just released [...]
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 [...]
Bangkok is not a rocknroll town, at least not in the literal sense of the word. And the city´s burgeoning punk scene is a modest affair - a tiny conglomeration of young bands, some good, some bad, some ugly, who have few venues to play and no one to play to, except each other.
Last night, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]