Music release

Don't Think I've Forgotten: Cambodia's Lost Rock and Roll (album)

Don't Think I've Forgotten: Cambodia's Lost Rock and Roll is the 2015 soundtrack album to John Pirozzi's documentary on Cambodian popular music.[1][2]

About the release

The album accompanies the 2014 film Don't Think I've Forgotten: Cambodia's Lost Rock and Roll.[3][4] Its 20 songs give full versions of music heard in the film.[1][5] They document the Cambodian music scene of the 1960s and early 1970s, before the Khmer Rouge came to power.[3][4] That scene grew up as the Vietnam War pressed on Cambodia's borders, and it joined Western rock and roll with a sound of its own.[2] The styles run from American jazz and Cuban mambo to traditional Khmer music, sentimental ballads, rock, acid rock, psychedelia and singer-songwriter songs.[3]

The performers include Sinn Sisamouth, Ros Serey Sothea, Pen Ran, Baksey Cham Krong, Huoy Meas, Yol Aularong, Sieng Vannthy, Drakkar, Pou Vannary and Cheam Chansovannary.[1] The album opens with "Phnom Penh," performed by the Royal University of Fine Arts.[1] Sinn Sisamouth's "Under the Sound of Rain" follows, a slow song in a jazz and blues style.[2][4] On "Thevary My Love," Sisamouth sings with Ros Serey Sothea.[4]

Much of the music was made by musicians who were killed under the Khmer Rouge.[2] Ros Serey Sothea, Sinn Sisamouth and Yol Aularong did not survive the regime.[3] Ros Serey Sothea is thought to have been worked to death in a labor camp.[2]

Making the album

John Pirozzi and the Cambodian anthropologist LinDa Saphan chose the songs.[3] The album was compiled by Pirozzi, the film's director, with the record collector Nate Hun, working with the Atlanta label Dust-to-Digital.[1][2][4] Dust-to-Digital staff helped find original versions of the songs and remastered them for CD, and the label and Pirozzi are credited with the research, restoration and presentation of the music.[5][1] Bandcamp Daily noted in 2018 that the current Cambodian government oversees the licensing of the music.[2]

Dust-to-Digital released the album in 2015. Its Bandcamp page gives the release date as March 26, 2015, while another listing gives May 12.[1][5] The album includes a 36-page booklet of historical background, and the download includes a PDF booklet.[3][1]

Track list

  1. "Phnom Penh," Royal University of Fine Arts
  2. "Under the Sound of Rain," Sinn Sisamouth
  3. "The Story of My Love," Chhoun Malay
  4. "Unique Child," Huoy Meas
  5. "B.C.K.," Baksey Cham Krong
  6. "Don't Be Angry," Ros Serey Sothea
  7. "Dance A Go Go," Sinn Sisamouth
  8. "There's Nothing To Be Ashamed Of," Pen Ran
  9. "Full Moon," Baksey Cham Krong
  10. "Thevary My Love," Sinn Sisamouth and Ros Serey Sothea
  11. "Heaven's Song," Ros Serey Sothea
  12. "Navy A Go Go," Sinn Sisamouth
  13. "Console Me," Sieng Vannthy
  14. "Dying Under a Woman's Sword," Yol Aularong and Va Sovy
  15. "Crazy Loving You," Drakkar
  16. "You've Got a Friend," Pou Vannary
  17. "Cyclo," Yol Aularong
  18. "Old Pot Still Cooks Good Rice," Ros Serey Sothea
  19. "Don't Think I've Forgotten," Sinn Sisamouth
  20. "Oh! Phnom Penh," Cheam Chansovannary[1]

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References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 Dust-to-Digital on Bandcamp, Don't Think I've Forgotten: Cambodia's Lost Rock and Roll
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 Bandcamp Daily, Dust-to-Digital Has Become a Go-To Label for Historic Records (January 17, 2018)
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 RootsWorld, Cambodia's Lost Rock and Roll
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 Shfl, Don't Think I've Forgotten: Cambodia's Lost Rock And Roll
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Wikipedia, Don't Think I've Forgotten
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