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Sounds Of Cambodia

by David Brieske

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These recordings were all made during the month of May, 2017 in various locations in Cambodia using a Tascam DR-05 handheld digital recorder.

Side A

1. Pinpeat ensemble at the temple of Preah Ang Check and Preah Ang Chorm in the Royal Gardens of Siem Reap.
2. Early morning in Kampong Cham.
3. Ta Loek entrance to Angkor Wat with music in the distance.
4. Monks chanting near Bakong Temple while another bathes nearby, splashing water over himself from a bucket.
5. On the road just outside Kampong Cham with music from a wedding party being set up.
6. Caught recording at 5am outside my hotel room by another guest in Kampong Cham. I never travel with a plan.
7. Wedding party music near Kampong Cham.
8. Music from loudspeakers around the grounds of Hanchey Temple.
9. The sound of cowbells from a herd grazing in the mountains near Sen Monorom.
10. Sounds from the jungle on Koh Rong Sanloem.
11. The sound of televisions coming from the rooms in my hotel in Kratie.
12. The market, or psar, in Chhlong.
13. The jungle near Sen Monorom waterfall

Side B

1. Distant music recorded near Phnom Kbal Romeas in the district of Kampot.
2. Sounds from the jungle on Koh Rong Sanloem.
3. Voices recorded in Angkor Wat.
4. Pinpeat ensemble at the temple of Preah Ang Check and Preah Ang Chorm in the Royal Gardens of Siem Reap.
5. Watching a Jackie Chan movie on a rainy bus ride to Sihanoukville.
6. A windy, early morning storm recorded from my hotel room in Battambang.
7. Recording from a small village near Kampot.
8. A funeral prayer broadcast along a road in Chhlong.
9. Bats recorded at Wat Nokor Bachey near Kampong Cham. This was recorded outside at the back of the modern pagoda where, inside the ancient temple at the back of the modern pagoda, there are hundreds of bats. The smell of guano is pretty strong outside the ruin, and bat skeletons can be found in the stone crevices.
10. Monks from the Krong Kratie Pagoda, recorded from my hotel across the street.
11. Pinpeat music from the Krong Kratie Pagoda.
12. Birds recorded near Kampot on the Preaek Tuek Chhu River.
13. Street sounds in Kratie.

credits

released July 15, 2017

Edited and mixed by David Brieske. Photography and design by David Brieske. Printed by Richard Vergez.
Ⓒ2018 David Brieske

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David Brieske Miami, Florida

Visual artist and musician. Obsessed with travel and making recordings.

Also working under the moniker, Fsik Huvnx.

fsikhuvnx.bandcamp.com

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