tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6179467970019405983.post521316118127632899..comments2023-12-29T23:29:09.750+00:00Comments on ecopunks: Venus on Earth by Dengue FeverTony Bailiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17747493009715601398noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6179467970019405983.post-14517476870208146462010-08-26T20:39:58.940+01:002010-08-26T20:39:58.940+01:00John, I've since bought their newest album Sle...John, I've since bought their newest album Sleepwalking Through the Mekong.<br />I visited Cambodia about eight years ago... Angkor Wat and Phnom Penh were I visted the S21 prison and went to the 'killing fields'. FOund it a very edgy placeTony Bailiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17747493009715601398noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6179467970019405983.post-51594512378632776232010-08-26T04:30:03.640+01:002010-08-26T04:30:03.640+01:00This band's singer was an illegal immigrant wi...This band's singer was an illegal immigrant with no English (they got her legal somehow after some tussle) in the city where I teach, which has at least 70,000 Cambodians. Biggest city in the nation for this population. Not sure why these refugees all wound up there after the horrors of war, but their children in my classes seem to not to want to talk much about what their parents understandably don't want to talk about. <br /><br />Glad to see a more carefree version of the Khmer impact's finding its way afar; this band's been working the indie scene in LA for about a decade, at least. Never heard them, but I have heard of them! <br /><br />Happy listening-- this whole Third World meets psychedelia and garage and such early 70s genre is many a collector's obsession; check out the descriptions at the Aquarius Records website in San Francisco and you'll find yourself near bankruptcy and divorce. They mastered the art of copy editing there, I assure you, to inspire consumer demands for product galore.John L. Murphy / "FionnchĂș"https://www.blogger.com/profile/16616876266772470719noreply@blogger.com