Description
Tracklist:
A1: Sleepwalking Through The Mekong
A2: Dondung Goan Gay
A3: March Of The Balloon Animals
A4: Tip My Canoe
B1: Master Tep Mary
B2: Hummingbird
B3: New Year’s Eve
B4: Ethanopium (Live At Snowy’s)
C1: Psychologically Healing (Dialogue Excerpt)
C2: The Orphan
C3: Master Kong Nai
C4: Hold My Hips
C5: Seeing Hands (Sleepwalking Version)
D1: Mou Pei Na
D2: Today I Learnt To Drink
D3: One Thousand Tears Of A Tarantula
D4: Phnom Chisor Serenade
Released on Record Store Day Black Friday 2022
“Sleepwalking Through The Mekong follows Los Angeles based band Dengue Fever on their journey to the country that inspired their love for 60’s and 70’s Cambodian rock. The odyssey is a homecoming for singer Chhom Nimol and a transformation for the rest of the band as they perform with master musicians and record new songs along the way. More than a rockumentary, the film serves up a portrait of modern Cambodia as the band tours through Phnom Penh and beyond, crossing a great cultural chasm with the same spirit of Cambodia’s original rock pioneers. Cambodia is often synonymous with the brutal Khmer Rouge regime that left millions dead and scattered refugees around the globe. This tragedy overshadows the story of Cambodia’s music scene that was nearly destroyed. Cambodian musicians reinvented Western rock n’ roll with a distinctly Khmer flavour to create a sound that is at once familiar and completely original. Sleepwalking Through The Mekong celebrates this vibrant but long-overlooked music and reveals the power of music to weave a common thread between extremely different cultures.”
“Dedicated to the singers and musicians who perished under the Pol Pot regime.
Their spirit and music live on.”
Soundtrack:
Songs recorded for the film at Babel Studio in Phnom Penh and Shoebox Studio in Los Angeles.
A4 – Originally recorded by Sinn Sisamouth and Ros Serey Sothea.
C4 – Originally recorded by Ros Serey Sothea.
Publishing:
Noonkey Publishing/David Ralicke (ASCAP).
1 Armed Crab Publishing/Ethan Holtzman (ASCAP).
Chhom Chimney/Chhom Nimol (ASCAP).
Foolish Mortal Publishing/Paul Smith (ASCAP).
Troll Under The Bridge/Zac Holtzman (BMI).
Swop Songs/Senon Williams (ASCAP).
For the world: Annie Reed Music Ltd. (Prs). Swop Songs is Pacific Electric Music Publishing.
For USA: Chhom Chimney, 1 Armed Crab Pub., Foolish Mortal Pub. and Noon Key (Pentagon Lipservices) is Ellipsis Music.
Swop Songs is Pacific Electric Music Publishing.
