They’ve Got Those Mekong Blues Again
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They’ve Got Those Mekong Blues Again
New York Times – Jan 20, 2008
“Seeing Hands” on the new album has an almost Funkadelic groove while “Sober Driver” is an all but emo complaint about a guy who drives the cute girl everywhere and gets nowhere. Now Dengue Fever is starting to make its mark far from its hometown. The band recently returned from the Womex world music festival in Seville Spain where it was one of a handful of acts to play showcase performances. British publications have included it in “next big thing” roundups and Dengue Fever’s songs have been on television and film soundtracks including. ” A new documentary “Sleepwalking Through the Mekong” that follows the group on its first trip as a band to Cambodia seems likely to gain it further notice… Folk music it’s not but in one crucial way Dengue Fever has folk resonances. Chhom and other young Cambodians in the States pop singers like Sinn Sisamouth and Ros Sereysothea who died in a labor camp in Cambodia in the 1970s hit a nerve that blues singers or hillbilly bands do for many Americans: the music takes listeners back home to a home that doesn’t precisely exist anymore. “Sleepwalking Through the Mekong” directed by the Los Angeles filmmaker John Pirozzi shows what happens when that 1960s pop makes its way back across the Pacific. It follows Dengue Fever on a 2005 trip to Cambodia and in the penultimate scene the band sets up a stage in a slum full of corrugated shacks and plays a concert. The reaction is festive at times but there are also some slack-jawed unreadable expressions. Whether that’s the impact of lost pop music coming back to life or the surreality of American rockers dropping down from postmodern Los Angeles is a question the band is smart enough to leave unanswered.
Sunday ‘” January 20
NEWS.com.au – Jan 20, 2008
30 Para Pinoy Program. 9 Rhythm and Blues. Midnight Music Throughout The Night. 1 – 1am Music… Midnight Midnight Music vernight. RADI ADELAIDE: 101.
Events in New Jersey
New York Times – Jan 20, 2008
Nicholas Music Center Rutgers University 85 George Street. PMNA Stockton Performing Arts Center Richard Stockton College “Windy Winter” presented by the Bay-Atlantic Symphony Chamber Players featuring works by.
Events in Westchester
New York Times – Jan 20, 2008
PUGHKEEPSIE Bardavon 1869 pera House “The Blues Brothers” musical comedy directed by John Landis. Starring John Belushi and.
LEGENDS F LATIN RCK
San Francisco Chronicle – Jan 20, 2008
Latin rock like most pop music trends came and went but it left a lasting imprint on those who remembered. For the past four years Mission District dentist Bernardo Gonzalez also manager of veteran Latin rockers Malo since 1985 has been throwing a remarkable event called Voices of Latin Rock which will take place Thursday at Bimbo’s 365 Club. Without advertising or promotion this annual benefit for autism sells out. Families buy entire tables and old friends stand in the aisles talking while a procession of the greatest Latin rock musicians take the stage. Last year the surviving members of the original Santana band played together at Bimbo’s for the first time in more than 20 years… Each year we expected to be the last. The original Latin rock bubble didn’t last long – Santana’s first three albums sold millions between 1969 and 1971 – but the effect on young Latin musicians throughout the country was incalculable. Conga player Michael Carabello and timbales samurai Jose “Chepito” Areas of Santana brought the fire of the Aztec gods to their band’s blues-rock foundations. It was flavored with a taste of their parents’ music the mambo and rumba records by Tito Puente and Willie Bobo they heard growing up. Gonzalez remembers seeing Santana’s groundbreaking performance in the Woodstock movie when he was 15 years old. “Talk about a life-changing experience” he said. “When I saw that I no longer wanted to be a baseball player or a football player.
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Arkansas Democrat Gazette – Jan 20, 2008
He moved to Los Angeles and enrolled in its Guitar Institute of Technology graduating from the year-long program last August. While in Los Angeles he formed his Q Revue band with four other guys: Jason Thomason guitar; Mike fficer keyboards guitar vocals; Max Kutzman bass; and Andrew Hynes drums. In school he learned about harmony how to read and write music and about the music industry. Montgomery’s sound has expanded from straight blues. Last fall the band recorded a six-song demo of original music. Montgomery wrote all the parts to the songs. He calls the collection “like funk blues rock soul — all mixed together.
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