Whiskey
Cambodia
The
Cambodian Space Project
Metal
Postcard Records
Whisky Cambodia,
the third album by top Khmer beat-combo, The Cambodian Space
Project, really is a rather fab and at times, intoxicating album. Its
ten tracks instinctively fall somewhere betwixt the heady rush of
what initially made Detroit great to begin with, and a musical
trajectory of a certain sweltering, sixties induced, Cambodian
twist-a-thon.
Think I'm kidding?
Think again, for as as recently quoted in The Guardian,
this lot are: ''a rousing, quirky reminder of the pre-Khmer Rouge
golden era of Cambodian pop.''
Not
that I'm a connoisseur of said era, but I do know a quintessentially
ice-cool groove when I hear one. And if this album's opener 'Dance
Twist' isn't of the sweatiest, quasi Northern Soul persuasion - one
of the finest I've heard in a very time long in fact - then I really
don't know what is.
Worth
hearing just for the very incisive Booker T'esque guitar alone...
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