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Related post: Event review: 2011 Jazz Journalism Awards
Here’s last year’s award winner: The making of jazz saxophonist JD Allen’s album, “Victory”.
This very interesting article was provided by Metal Postcards Rec‘s Sean Hockings. With Thanks To the author Julien Poulson of The Cambodian Space Project and Phnom Penh’s entertainment and listings website Leng Pleng
Photo courtesy of Leng Pleng
Lately, I’ve been on the receiving end of some interesting and inquisitive emails from musicians and filmmakers around the planet who are writing to ask about Cambodia’s music scene. They want to come here – they’re ready to get on the plane – tomorrow! They say and they tell me it’s because they sense there’s ‘something in the water’ there’s something going out there… or at least that’s what they’ve heard from others and hell… it sounds like a great place… Sure it is, and if this week’s gig guide is anything to go by, it seems more and more musicians and artists are traveling all this way out here just to get a taste of the action.So, here’s an attempt at some sort of summation of what I thinks been going on ‘out here’ and I’ll begin by borrowing the lyrics ‘from hooker bars to opera houses’ penned back in the early ‘70’s by ‘lost’ and recently ‘found’ rocker Sixto Rodriguez. The sentiment of Rodriguez’s storytelling song “A Most Disgusting Song” easily fit with describing the deep, eclectic, electric, beautiful, beguiling, often haunting, tragic and intensely vibrant story of Cambodia’s strange but virile music scene…
Text by Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi
I would like to introduce you to BreakThru Radio in NYC. BTR Live Studio produces a number of music-based web programs and features a mix of breaking and established musicians. All music is played exclusively by the bands.
This time New York City’s afro-beat 10-piece group EMEFE stops by in their studio performing “Good Future”, and chat with the host Maia Macdonald – who’s a musician and DJ and has been involved with the music scene for a number of years – about their band name and the positive philosophy behind the project.
Artist: Elikeh
Title: Between 2 Worlds
Label: Azalea City Recordings
Genre: Afro Beat
Review by Matt Cole
It is difficult to even say where the band Elikeh is from; band leader, vocalist, and rhythm guitarist Massama Dogo hails from Togo, in West Africa, and other members of the band come from a diverse array of places, including California, Nigeria, New York, Maryland, and Benin. It is not surprising, then, that their recently-released CD, Between 2 Worlds, shows influences from a wide variety of sources.
Date: Monday, February 17, 2013
Time: 11pm
Venue: Nublu (62 Avenue C, bet. E. 4th and 5th st., New York, NY 10009)
Ticket: $10
Genre: Funk/Jazz/improv
Inspired by Ornette Coleman’s Primetime, Miles Davis’ Bitches Brew, Moroccan Gnawa music, and Stanley Turrentine, Avram’s Electric Kool-Aid will be playing my original compositions, featuring improvisations by some of NYC’s most creative groove players. The members are: Dave Phelps guitar, Keith Witty elec. bass, Chris Eddleton drums and Avram Fefer saxes and composition.
