"KAMPOT" Come And Join Kampot Produced By Morganics at The Kampot Writers & Readers Festival 2016. Performed by Kampot High School students participating in Kampot School of Hip Hop with special guest Dan Davies on Double Bass.

"KAMPOT" Come And Join Kampot Produced By Morganics

This is a set of Cambodian Space Project acoustic songs - a work in progress and soon to be a complete album of music recorded by Channthy and CSP in Bali. This set of songs began as and acoustic side project Channthy and Julien Poulson while visiting Bali for the Ubud Reader's & Writer's Festival. Balinese based musician and sound engineer Jay Thorpe was impressed by Channthy's performance at URWF and invited the duo to record. First track to tape (tools) was Sweetheart Bali - Channthy's emotive response to her first experience of Bali. The came the track Lullaby for Makara with Jay adding slide-guitar to this piece of Mekong Delta Blues. Channthy and Julien made two more trips to Bali and continued to write and experiment, next came and epic acoustic version - 9 minutes! of Channthy's story-telling song Whisky Cambodia, then versions of Western songs like Sonny Bono's sublime Summer Wine. Channthy, keen to learn to sing something in English then took Peggy Lee's Fever and turned it inside out, even wrote two new verses and stories in Khmer - she's not singing about Captain Smith and Pocohnotas but about Human the monkey and Srey Macha the mermaid then another verse about a monsterous mother-in-law who eats babies. The there's a version of Paint It Black - the song that beceame the unofficial Vietnam War theme song - Channthy sings about her own birth, born on the battle fields and bombed out rice paddies in Cambodia, she describes the villagers gathered around as she's is delivered, screaming into this world, apparently she let out a large squark and was immediately given the name Blackbird - it's a derogatory name, her Pa cried, the nickname stuck, so this version of the Stones classic is called Blackbird. Finally on the third visit back to Bali, Channthy and Julien were joined by Jay to play some of the tunes live, the duo became a trio and played a brief set at Antida Arts the drove through the night to Ubud where they became a foursome with the addition of Nicky Bomba playing all sorts of stuff, even a water bottle and a ukelele, adding something extra special to the next batch of tracks. Mountain Song is one of Channthy's most beautiful songs, it arrived quickly but takes its inspiration from an earlier meeting with Indigenous Bunong Musicians in Cambodia's Mondulkiri province. Finally there's the song, The Boat, it's a song Channthy's written for the Key of Sea Project - a music project initiated by Hugh Croswaite in Australia in response to the human rights issues surrounding asylum seekers coming to Australia. In this haunting piece, Channthy imagines the people of Cambodia and Vietnam who fled the war in Cambodia and took to the see as refugees seeking to escape war and tragedy in their homelands. The music here will form a new album and new direction for Channthy and The CSP when not busy making psychedelic Cambodian rock'n'roll - please enjoy!

Sweetheart Bali

Fever

Lullaby Makara

Mountain Dance

Black Bird

Summer Wine

This is a set of Cambodian Space Project acoustic songs - a work in progress - soon to be a complete album of music recorded by Channthy and CSP in Bali. This set of songs began as an acoustic side project for Srey Channthy and Julien Poulson while visiting Bali as guests of The Ubud Reader's & Writer's Festival 2011. Balinese based musician and sound engineer Jay Thorpe was impressed by Channthy's performance at URWF and invited the duo to spend a couple of extra days to record. First track to tape (Protools) was Sweetheart Bali - Channthy's emotive response to experiencing Bali for the first time. Then came the track Lullaby for Makara with Jay adding superb slide-guitar to this sublime piece of Mekong Delta Blues. Channthy and Julien made two more trips to Bali and continued to write and experiment, next came and epic acoustic version - 9 minutes! of Channthy's story-telling song Whisky Cambodia, then versions of Western songs like Sonny Bono's classic Summer Wine. Channthy, keen to learn to sing something in English then took Peggy Lee's Fever and turned it inside out, even wrote two new verses and stories in Khmer - she's not singing about Captain Smith and Pocohontas but about Hunuman the monkey and Srey Macha the mermaid, then another verse about a monsterous mother-in-law who eats babies. The there's a version of Paint It Black - the song that beceame the unofficial Vietnam War theme song - Channthy sings about her own birth, born on the battle fields and bombed out rice paddies in Cambodia, she describes the villagers gathered around as she's is delivered, screaming into this world, apparently she let out a large squark and was immediately given the name Blackbird - it's a derogatory name, her Pa cried, the nickname stuck, so this version of the Stones classic is called Blackbird. Finally on the third visit back to Bali, Channthy and Julien were joined by Jay to play some of the tunes live, the duo became a trio and played a brief set at Antida Arts the drove through the night to Ubud where they became a foursome with the addition of Nicky Bomba playing all sorts of stuff, even a water bottle and a ukelele, adding something extra special to the next batch of tracks. Mountain Song is one of Channthy's most beautiful songs, it arrived quickly but takes its inspiration from an earlier meeting with Indigenous Bunong Musicians in Cambodia's Mondulkiri province. Finally there's the song, The Boat, it's a song Channthy's written for the Key of Sea Project - a music project initiated by Hugh Croswaite in Australia in response to the human rights issues surrounding asylum seekers coming to Australia. In this haunting piece, Channthy imagines the people of Cambodia and Vietnam who fled the war in Cambodia and took to the see as refugees seeking to escape war and tragedy in their homelands. The music here will form a new album and new direction for Channthy and The CSP when not busy making psychedelic Cambodian rock'n'roll - please enjoy!

J.M.Poulson

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