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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 [...]
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 [...]
Crime Wave Press, Asia’s brand new crime fiction publishing house is launching The Cambodian Book of the Dead, my second crime novel, at the UBUD Writers and Readers Festival today!!! I will read from the book after Cambodian Chanteuse Srey Thy who usually fronts The Cambodian Space Project opens the launch.
Long time collaborator and documentary film maker Marc Eberle has released a new promo video of The Cambodian Space Project. Have Visa No Have Rice is the new killer song by Asia’s Greateful Dead, based on singer Srey Thy‘s struggle to get a visa to tour in France. The video is shot mostly in Phnom [...]
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. [...]
Check out the new website of German film director Marc Eberle, a long time collaborator who specializes in directing cutting-edge documentaries on Asian subjects. Marc has covered human trafficking on the Indian subcontinent (Nepal’s Sold Out Daughters, 2001), the world’s greatest gathering of human beings, the Maha Kumbh Mela in Allahabad, India (The Greatest Show [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Here´s a trailer for Marc Eberle´s forthcoming feature documentary ROCK CAMBODIA, the story of Srey Thy, the lead singer of the Cambodian Space Project, a rock band based in Phnom Penh, who combine 1960s Cambodian RocknRoll with contemporary sounds. ROCK CAMBODIA traces the history of popular Cambodian music from the 1960s to its current revival. [...]