Cambodian / Thai rock

[Guest]

I found this Cambo Rock CD while browsing the binary news groups. It sounds amazingly good!! I was wondering if any of you guys have heard this stuff...and also if there is similar Thai 60's psych / garage rock available....

 

 

 

"From the Web:

 

 

 

CD reissue of the popular mid-90s LP (long o/p), with 9 bonus tracks added.

 

"Unknown to exist until recently, these recordings from the late 60s, early

 

70s Cambodian rock scene range from mad garage-band rave-ups to mystic

 

go-go organ/fuzz guitar, with exotic female singers. Extremely sensual and

 

emotionally charged -- you'll hear echoes of Jimi, Janis, Seeds, Them, and

 

SF acid. Assembled by Paul Wheeler who went to Cambodia and found

 

these tapes which the locals called 'Circle Dance Music' without credits

 

or song titles. These late-60's/early 70's era songs have a sound that's

 

completely inexplicable despite the use of standard rock instrumentation

 

and song structures. Much of it sounds like The Ventures with a Cambodian

 

singer, and one singer getting funky with some James Brown riffs, complete

 

with J.B's trademark 'HUH'. One of them even sounds like "Gloria" in Cambodian."

[Ed Zeppelin]

Yeah! I've got it and I'd recommend it.

 

As the blurb says it's a mixture of sixties garage as well as being quite influenced by Santana.

 

Lots of fuzz guitars and sixties keyboards and weird vocals with reverb, which at times sound kind of Chinese.

 

A couple of my friends have made copies from my one.

 

I don't know any other compilations like this one...it's a bit of a one off I think.

 

Ed

[Guest]

Cool....Like I said I found it in the Binaries so I DL'd and burned, printed cover and listened that afternoon. Really cool way out stuff. If anybody is interested I found this web address on the cover:

 

 

 

www.parallel-world.com

[Guest]

 

 

 

 

If you are into Thai contemporary music, you gotta check out Pongsit Kampi!