Into the Cosmic: Kung Fu Movie Soundtracks to Cambodian Guitar Funk
Happy Holidays from Cambodia
Fish Island Records: Launching a record label with a T-Shirt first!
Well here we are! 2021 and let’s hope it’s a great year ahead. These last few months have been a hugely productive time for my own work towards building a recording studio in Cambodia and getting set to launch a dedication record label to compliment the studio and allow me to get back to focusing […]
Making Movies: Super-8 Sci-Fi in the time of COVID-19
There’s no doubt, we’re living through strange times. I feel for all the people whose lives have been deeply and suddenly affected by COVID and for many of our fellow musicians and artist who live and depend upon the ‘gig economy’ just to do what they do and to support their art. This is a […]
Kak Channthy: like a brilliant star she shines brightly
On this day, two years ago, we lost Channthy to an utterly senseless road accident in Phnom Penh I can still hear her voice, not her singing voice but her speaking voice, and when speaking to me, Channthy could be cheeky, witty, joyous and just too funny or at other times, snappy and firey but […]
We’ve got the funk! we got the Rat Catcher and we gotta big whiff of durian
Yep! we’ve got the funk alright… so, according to the unwritten laws of rock’n’roll, it’s usually it’s the bass player, but this time we reckon it’s the actual same funk that George Clinton kicked overboard (the Funk was lost at sea by Parliament on 2 July 1979, “the day the funk died”) and it’s here […]
Echoes Across The Mountains: The Road Back to Bou’Sraa
There’s real magic in the mountainous Cambodian province of Mondulkiri. I get an overwhelming sense of this as soon as I arrive here in the district capital Senmonorom. There’s something in the air alright, I mean after 7hrs in a jam-packed minibus from Phnom Penh, the first thing you feel immediately on arrival is a […]
This Xmas and New Year In Cambodia
POST 24 OF 100 DAYS: WRITING ON FLYING THROUGH SPACE AND TIME WITH KAK CHANNTHY AND THE CAMBODIAN SPACE PROJECT Oh no… I just fully teared-up… this in front of two complete strangers, right in the midst of a conversation on Cambodian music etc., I’m not really embarrassed by this outpouring of grief, it’s sometimes […]
Artists’ tributes to Kak Channthy: Queen of Cambodian Rock’n’Roll
POST 23 OF 100 DAYS: WRITING ON FLYING THROUGH SPACE AND TIME WITH KAK CHANNTHY AND THE CAMBODIAN SPACE PROJECT This Saturday night, October 27th, I’ll be back in Phnom Penh and performing at a venue that is new to me but already the LF Social Club’s doing wonders for the live music scene in […]
The Cambodian Space Project: A language of pictures and song
Day 7 of 100 days: writing on flying through Space and Time with Kak Channthy and The Cambodian Space Project We’d just received the release ready masters for our first album – ten tracks – 9 loose interpretations of old songs, 1 fabulous new track – Have Visa No Have Rice. But what to name […]
Paul Kelly & The Cambodian Space Project
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 […]