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raw, gritty, cambodian rock and roll recorded live in Detroit by Jim Diamond (The White Stripes, The Dirt Bombs) at Ghetto Recorders. A sneak preview of the monsterous new CSP sounds cooked raw, hold the fish sauce, more to come!

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Jim Diamond (The White Stripes, The Dirt Bombs) recorded Woman Wants to Drink live at Ghetto Recorders in Detroit. We all stood around in a circle, played live without headphones while Channthy sang this track through an old pa. Probably how they used to do it in Cambodia back the the hey day of psychedelic Cambodian rock. This is a retro-modern take on things, a song Channthy originally recorded as a hip-hop track with Sydney group Astronomy Class. Music travels, echoes of the past, reverberations from Phnom Penh to Sydney to Detroit - raw, gritty Cambodian rock and roll, cooked fresh, spicy and hot!

WOMAN WANTS TO DRINK

Cover of legendary Indonesian female group Dara Puspita, major rock n roll heroes of the '60s and legends in the face of adversity.

A Go Go (Dara Puspita 1967)

A cover of the 5,6,7,8's version of this japanese folk tale, originally covered by eartha kitt! 

Sho-jo-ji

Cambodian pop of the dubious Chlangden variety from "the Queen of Golden Voice."  Compiled in Boiled Snail Girl (2011).

Ros Sereysothea - cho cgeay neangvong

Cambodian Space Project Live@lounge (line + Mic)

This track, which was conceived by Charles (Natural Selekta) Mudede and produced by DJ Shingi, is based on "Yèkèrmo Sèw (A Man of Experience and Wisdom)," an Ethio-jazz tune that's composed by Mulatu Astatke and opens the compliation Éthiopiques, Vol. 4.



Our Man in Addis Ababa

Another hot Cambodian 60´s Soul Rock gem!

Oun Trov Ka Bong

Ethiopiques - Tesfa Maryam Kidane - Heywete

Show 78

Ros sereysothea - sweet sixteen

 60’s Asian Psychedelic
CD: Cambodian Rocks

Ros Sereysothea - Chnam oun Dop-Pram Muy

The Cambodian Space Project goes Country! this track is a sample from our acoustic recording sessions in Bali. The song is called "Mountain Dance" Srey Channthy calls to everyone - young, old, rich, poor, black, white etc to forget their worries and come dancing on the mountain. It's a song inspired by our meeting with Bunong musician 'Blind Nyel' of Mondulkiri and this track also features special guest Nicky Bomba playing bass &amp; percussion. Recorded by Jay Thorpe in Bali. 

Mountain Dance

Dara Puspita-  Bhaktiku

NOT EASY ROCK'N'ROLL named after the opening track is the second album by THE CAMBODIAN SPACE PROJECT. Recorded at CLA studio, Phnom Penh, Sarin Choun, Kong Boran. Mixed and mastered at Birdland Studios, Melbourne, by Lindsay Gravina and Rob Long. Produced by Julien Poulson.

7 BANG BANG

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!

Fever

Lullaby Makara

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!

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Paul Kelly with Srey Channthy and The Cambodian Space Project - hauntingly beautiful song recorded for The Key of Sea Project. KOS is a project to bring musicians from vastly different backgrounds together to write and record songs in response to the debate on asylum seekers in Australia. 

Profits from the Key of Sea are donated to:
The Asylum Seeker Resource Centre - www.asrc.org.au
The Human Rights Arts and Film Festival - www.hraff.org.au
SAIL - www.sailprogram.org.au

The Key Of Sea is proudly presented by the Human Rights Arts and Film Festival and supported by Amnesty International.

Buy the album now: https://itunes.apple.com/au/album/the-key-of-sea-vol.-2/id568311588

www.keyofsea.com.au 

The Boat - The Cambodian Space Project with Paul Kelly

Where I Go - is the title song for a new film "Where I Go" by Kavich Neang
https://vimeo.com/57913050

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