Dengue Fever - Dengue Fever Presents: Sleepwalking Through the Mekong (2009)
Artist: Dengue Fever
Title: Dengue Fever Presents: Sleepwalking Through the Mekong
Year Of Release: 2009
Label: M80 Music
Genre: Surf, Cambodian Classical
Quality: FLAC (tracks+.cue+.log)
Total Time: 56:18
Total Size: 329 MB
WebSite: Album Preview
Dengue Fever's increasingly notable role as a flashpoint band for myriad styles — starting with but less and less limited to re-creating 1960s Cambodian fuzz-pop smashes — gets a logical summary with Sleepwalking Through the Mekong, part career overview and part documentary of the sounds and styles which originally prompted the L.A.-based group into existence. The collection itself pairs up with an enjoyable documentary featuring the group's first tour of Cambodia itself, homeland of its powerful lead singer Chhom Nimol, but on its own the soundtrack makes for a good introduction for both neophytes to the group and its larger context. Only a few songs are full-on rarities for any dedicated Dengue Fever fan to start with — two brief instrumentals, including the wonderfully titled "March of the Balloon Animals," plus a couple of live tracks and reworkings of earlier songs, including "Seeing Hands," its rhythmic keyboard vamp and guitar twang and buried vocals resulting in a compelling version as much Spacemen 3 as Sinn Sisamouth. The latter features on the disc along with other classic performers such as Ros Serey Sothea, whose "Today I Learnt to Drink" nearly steals the whole disc. ~ Ned RaggettTitle: Dengue Fever Presents: Sleepwalking Through the Mekong
Year Of Release: 2009
Label: M80 Music
Genre: Surf, Cambodian Classical
Quality: FLAC (tracks+.cue+.log)
Total Time: 56:18
Total Size: 329 MB
WebSite: Album Preview
1.01 - Dengue Fever - Sleepwalking Through The Mekong (3:39)
1.02 - Meas Samoun - Dondung Goan Gay (3:27)
1.03 - Dengue Fever - March of the Balloon Animals (2:16)
1.04 - Dengue Fever - Tip My Canoe (4:43)
1.05 - Tep Mary & Dengue Fever - Master Tep Mary (2:00)
1.06 - Dengue Fever - Hummingbird (5:08)
1.07 - Sinn Sisamouth & Ros Serey Sothea - New Years Eve (3:23)
1.08 - Dengue Fever - Ethanopium (Live at Snowy's) (6:50)
1.09 - Dialogue Excerpt - Psychologically Healing (0:22)
1.10 - Khee Sokley - The Orphan (0:50)
1.11 - Kong Nai & Dengue Fever - Master Kong Nai (4:03)
1.12 - Dengue Fever - Hold My Hips (4:30)
1.13 - Dengue Fever - Seeing Hands (Sleepwalking Version) (3:40)
1.14 - Sinn Sisamouth & Ros Serey Sothea - Mou Pei Na (1:55)
1.15 - Ros Serey Sothea - Today I Learnt To Drink (2:14)
1.16 - Dengue Fever - One Thousand Tears Of A Tarantula (6:42)
1.17 - Dengue Fever - Phnom Chisor Serenade (0:39)