Sleepwalking Through The Mekong

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Release Date: 2009

Label: M80 Music

"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."

DVD:

Filmed in Cambodia - Phnom Penh, Kampot, Kep, Phnom Chisor.
Post Production Services - Plasticity Digital Post.
Re-recording mixed at Subtractive Inc.

"Dedicated to the singers and musicians who perished under the Pol Pot regime.
Their spirit and music live on."

Track DVD1 - From the Dengue Fever album - Escape From Dragon House. Courtesy of M80/BRG.
Track DVD3 - From the Dengue Fever album - Escape From Dragon House. Courtesy of M80/BRG. Originally recorded by Sinn Sisamounth and Ros Serey Sothea.
Track DVD4 - Originally recorded by Ros Serey Sothea.
Track DVD5 - Originally recorded by Ros Serey Sothea.
Track DVD6 - Originally recorded by Sinn Sisamouth and Ros Serey Sothea.
Track DVD7 - Originally recorded by Ros Serey Sothea.
Track DVD9 - From the Dengue Fever album - Escape From Dragon House. Courtesy of M80/BRG.
Track DVD10 - Originally performed by Ros Serey Sothea.
Track DVD11 - From the Dengue Fever album - Dengue Fever. Courtesy of Web of Mimicry.
Track DVD16 - Originally recorded by Ros Serey Sothea.

Special Features -
Bonus live performances, Dengue Fever with Khmer master musicians, Water Festival footage, Coconut Dance (Roam Kous Traloak), Trailer and Biographies.

Unrated | Suitable For All Audiences.

Soundtrack:

Songs recorded for the film at Babel Studio in Phnom Penh and Shoebox Studio in Los Angeles.

CD4 - Originally recorded by Sinn Sisamouth and Ros Serey Sothea.
CD12 - 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.

Housed in an 8-panel digifile sleeve with a 16 page booklet.

℗© 2009 M80.
Copyright 2007 MFBDoc LLC.

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