Saturday, 21 June 2008

Tavaree Meas Bong (Tavaree My Dear) (chlangden production #082)

Artists: Sin Sisamouth, Rous Sereisothea, Dee Saveth (famous Cambodian actress in the older days, still currently living), Ted Sambath.




oh the drama. Love is like the Raindrops has a real moment at 01:10. then builds up into super emotion before starting all over again. Also, apparently it is sung in Thai, rather than Khmer.

all this chlangden stuff is strangely delivered, as though many hands have altered the original work. the rough cut cover art seems to echo the shoddy noise-reduction effects, and new fangled drum machines and yamaha keyboards try to drown out the richness of the original recordings, which were made sometime before Sin Sisamouth's death in 1975. Fortunately the drama and tension remain, as fresh as the day they were sung.

* thanks to Yo Yo for helping translate song titles and identify artists.

Friday, 13 June 2008

unknown music from cambodia #4 (chlangden production #071)



Celebrations are in order for the first known song title on this blog!
This album = the prom x ending credits x tango x california divided by cambodia