Have a nice trip!!!
They’re a great band, the singer is amazing, really beautiful, the guitars really jump out at you, very affecting, great stuff
Day 3 of 100 days: writing on flying through Space and Time with Kak Channthy and The Cambodian Space Project While it’s true that The Cambodian Space Project really just began with Channthy and I banging out a few songs at the first birthday party of a little Phnom Penh hideout called the Alley Cat […]
“Les gens ressentent ces choses. Ces chansons peuvent ramener de l’amour, mais aussi effacer le chagrin” Il y a des destins qui se vivent avant de s’écrire, et Channthy Kak se savait prédestinée. Du côté de Phnom Penh, capitale sauvage du Cambodge, sa vie s’est brutalement arrêtée, à l’âge tragique de 38 ans. On ne […]
“That she would become an icon for young Cambodian women and inspiration for a new generation of singers and musicians is testament to her determination and talent. “ The Bangkok Post “Kak Channthy represented everything that is beautiful about Cambodia, the spirit of the oppressed and the poor. She lives on.” On Tuesday 20 […]
THE MAKING OF SPACED-OUT IN WONDERLAND – album sleeve notes by Clinton Walker The email came out of the blue, a few years ago, from someone going by the handle of ‘spacemonkey’. It was an invitation to come to Cambodia, as a guest of said spacemonkey Julien Poulson and his band the Cambodian Space Project, […]
Yesterday, Once More aka Msel Mehn Mdong Tiet is a musical that spans the birth, death and resurrection of South East Asian rock’n’roll and explores the life story of one of its most beguiling and mysterious characters – Poev Vannary. Yesterday, Once More blasts-off in 1970 and spins out across three distinct points in time in […]
Great to check in with Paul Kelly this week to choose a song for Paul & Channthy to duet on CSP’s forthcoming album “Spaced-Out in Wonderland”. Channthy, CSP and Paul Kelly first got together for the Key of Sea album project – songs to address the plight of refugees seeking asylum in Australia – at […]
Please briefly introduce yourself and Cambodian Space Project. My name is Channthy, full name Kak Channthy but sometimes I’m called Srey Thy – this just means Miss Thy in Cambodia. I’m best known as singer/songwriter with The Cambodian Space Project – a cross-cultural mix of musicians first formed by myself and Australian guitarist Julien Poulson […]
Night of the Iguana: What does Iggy Pop, a brazen cat burglar and Cambodia’s nascent music scene have in common? May well you ask… Sometime around 3am on Friday April 7, sound engineer and Cambodian Space Project guitarist Jason Shaw was sleeping… happily in deep sleep, for it’d been an action packed week but things […]