Dengue Fever Presents: Electric Cambodia |  | Artist: Various Artists
Label: Minky Records
Category: Music
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Rating:  16 reviews
Sales Rank: 24,669
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.5
MPN: 1
UPC: 824247018228
EAN: 0824247018228
ASIN: B002WSYLRQ
Release Date: January 12, 2010
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| Tracks:
| • | Give Me One Kiss | | • | Don't Speak | | • | Jombang Jet | | • | Flowers in the Pond | | • | Shave Your Beard | | • | I Will Marry You | | • | I Want to Shout | | • | Jasmine Girl | | • | I Want to Be Your Lover | | • | Hope to Meet You | | • | Snaeha | | • | I Will Starve Myself to Death | | • | Cold Sky |
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Album Description
* Chosen by the members of Dengue Fever from their collection of rare Cambodian cassettes. * "Shave Your Beard" by Ros Sereysothea has been recorded by Dengue Fever and is a staple in their live set. * This music was recorded in the 1960s and early '70s soon after Cambodia became an independent nation. It was a period of rapid modernization that not only influenced music, but also architecture, sculpture, painting, dance, and cinema. For many, it was Cambodia's own artistic renaissance, a time pointing to a hopeful future. * This golden era came to a sudden end when the Khmer Rouge took control of the country in 1975 and brutally attempted to destroy any trace of modern society. Sadly, while many of the recordings of modern Cambodian rock and roll survived, most of the artists who created it did not. * Over the last decade Dengue Fever has culled this compilation of their favorite Cambodian rock and roll from many different cassette tapes. The great music you'll find here is a testament to the spirit of a modern Cambodia that existed not so long ago, and should be remembered today. * Dengue Fever will tour and promote the disc via live radio appearances.
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 just buy it! February 21, 2010
anonymous
23 out of 29 found this review helpful
Any of you jokers and especially you whiners ever heard of the Cambodian Rocks series? do a little homework before you get your diapers soiled.
just support Dengue Fever and their desire to get this wonderful music heard.
Stop whining,all you b_otches and enjoy something special. Really, some of these reviews are embarrassing. you want great production? buy a effin' Lady Gaga CD, moronis.
and yes , this review is very helpful, ha ha.
Phnom Penh's Top 40 February 16, 2010
Amaranth (Northern California)
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
"Electric Cambodia" is a fascinating compilation lovingly pieced together by LA-based Cambodian psychedelic rock band Dengue Fever. The groups and singers flourished during the brief Belle Epoque between independence from France and the brutal rise of the Khmer Rouge. The songs blend traditional Cambodian sensibilities with the current psychedelic rock in vogue. There's surf guitar in "Jasmine Girl",and "I want to shout" sounds like one of Phil Spector's girl groups. The songs are haunting,ghostly;the original recordings came from cassettes. There's something raw and authentic about them.
"Give Me One Kiss","Don't Speak","I will marry you" and "I want to be your lover" are haunting love songs. They are ethereal. It hearkens back to Cambodia's halcyon days. "Jombang Jet","Shave your beard",and "I want to shout" are more joyful. There are tracks with enigmatic names like "Unknown title" and "Unknown artist"--a sad reminder of how the Khmer Rouge ruthlessly eliminated its victims and their identities. "Hope to meet you",by an unknown artist,is a lovely instrumental. The older sister of Dengue Fever's lead singer, Chhom Nimol, went to the painstaking work of matching the songs with titles and artists. The closing tracks, "I will starve myself to death","Unknown Title",and "Cold Sky" are bleakly foreboding. While the opening songs are happy,these final three foreshadow the end to Cambodia's brief Golden Age.
"Electric Cambodia" is a powerful,haunting, beautiful compilation of psychedelic rock. If one likes vintage Cambodian rock,one can listen to:
Cambodian Rocks Volume 1 (3rd Edition)
Cambodian Rocks Volume 2
Cambodian Rocks Volume 4
Radio Phnom Penh
Dengue Fever has covered the "Shave Your Beard" song,and their "Ten Thousand Tears of the Tarantula" was named #2 in the past decade's most influential songs by Rolling Stone--by a member of Metallica no less. Their albums are amazing:
Escape from Dragon House
Venus on Earth
"Electric Cambodia",is,so far,one of the best releases of 2010.
Electric Nostalgia March 24, 2010
Robert Kim (Alhambra, CA USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I heard bits of this album on LA's KCRW and was immediately intrigued. I missed the airing, but found the CD on Amazon. Two days later, I'm listening to the first song and I'm totally seeing how my parents would have been listening and enjoying this type of music in their days of youth. You certainly don't have to speak Khmer (neither my parents nor I do) to bring a big smile to your face. The music is almost exactly how I remember some of the Korean LPs my parents had when I was growing up. A lot of memories small and big, from the little pops you hear as the needle finds its way to the music tracks, to wondering how they can sing so high (before I learned about overdubbing). Maybe it's my imagination, but I think I can hear the little pops, and the impossibly high vocals still brings a big smile.
As the note on the CD indicates, most of the artists probably have died during the Khmer Rouge days. I see the CD as a small tribute to those artists. I thank Dengue Fever for opening up new avenues for people like me to discover music like this. And may these artists rest in peace.
Awesome May 2, 2010
Max Osterhaus (Oakland, CA USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I don't know what it is about this. Perhaps some latent orientalism in me. or perhaps it's just awesome.
This stuff sounds like what aliens would sing if the only inspiration they had was a few 70's and 80's American cassettes that somehow made their way to that galaxy.
it's got a great groove and some of the epic wonderment of bollywood, etc...i listen to it over and over!
cop this album March 2, 2010
Sarah Wolfson
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
From reading previous reviews, it seems some are so focused on the purity of the music they are losing sight of Dengue Fever's attempt to preserve an authenticity unique to Cambodia during the `60s and `70s. In this fourteen- track compilation, DF maintains loyal in cultivating the sounds that hark back to a bygone era.
As stated before, due to Pol Pot's regime it is difficult to collect polished gems that are un-tampered in one form or another. And fortunately, Dengue Fever is offering listeners a steady mix of colorful, rock jamming and psychedelic numbers that honor a time where expression was valued.
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