it have been almost a year i want to share some of my music collection library. but it was not possible. a lot of things behind in coding and disable the downloading. i don’t want to delete and shut down the whole site due to copyright matter. i did delete one blog sometime ago due to worry too much of copyright issue. but there’s always a way to steal music … i hope we all respect the and artists rights owner and don’t abuse by intention or unintentional from this website. i put the music play here for entertainment purpose only and subject to be removed if request by the owner or affiliated right owners.

those are the song that play an essential key through almost 20 years being as the fan and collector of the music. those are from the original songs or soundtrack or any music that i heard during those 20 years. they are not much but i hope i can share a bit a taste of music that i got. some music it took me 2 or 3 years to find it. but it’s a passion and the good thing always arrive to those who wait.

there’s the code behind to select randomly the song from the library. if you want to listen another song, you might wait next time you visit my blog or simply refresh the page. but i suggest just play it once when you come then next time you are sure you will get something surprise and good  thank to the magic rotate.php. if you want to have something installed on your blog please let me know, i would be happy to share.

To play the music, look at the sidebar on the right, you will find under Random Music a beautiful and small mp3 player. All you need to do is try a click and wait for your chance to discover what i call the music.

Enjoy the music and thank to XSPF music player and wordpress plugin by Jose Rodriguez (a.k.a. Boriel).

The original of Khmer music is not for entertainment purpose, but to communicate with the spirits, with the god. The combination of the sound that comes from the Khmer music instruments play as a protocol to connect between the real world and the spirits.

When you put yourself get into the harmony of the Khmer traditional music, you will feel more or less the spirits around you. You will hear the sound of the nature, you would feel something invisible entourages yourself. The sound is so powerful, it will cover your soul and let you find a moment to relax in peace.

In these modern times, the traditional Khmer music still plays an important role in Cambodian society. We could hear them everywhere in various ceremonies and occasions. The traditional music is kept in a high conservation intention.

Much more than this, some French composers have arrived in Cambodia and work together with the local artists to learn about Khmer music and create something new but always respect to its original.

For example the work of Jean-Pierre Limborg, a music composer from France, on the album “Les larmes d’Angkor” is a very good remix between traditional Khmer music and modern music that capture with fidelity of Khmer music and transform it into a stage of relaxation music. When you listen to the album “Les larmes d’Angkor”, you will get contact with the nature, the music will allow you to get in touch with a very long history of Khmer music and relax yourself in a salon. It would give you a moment to escape yourself into the nature.

My favorite of the album is the 2nd song,

Under the title of “YOM – Les larmes d’Angkor”,

The children play down the street 278, in Phnom Penh. A young Cambodian woman sing in a small garden: “My heart is broken since you left …”  and the voice of the students at street Paster, follow their teacher to learn to sing a song.

All combined together to create an exceptional emotion, a memory from Phnom Penh city and it reflects to the long history of Angkor temples.

It will follow by the 3th song, which certainly is a pure music that could secretly cure your heart 

Tony Jaa made the world surprise with his new martial art style in Ong Bak. I wrote and did some interview with few people that know about Bokator: Khmer Martial Art. That article would help you to find the different between Khmer Bokator and what Tony Jaa were using in his films.

The style of Tony Jaa is unique that we never seen in cinema or maybe it was never reached that level of fast and deadly dangerous like that before. The strength from his knees is very strong. He is a good fighter. Ong Bak, story itself had a good plot and have a lot of interesting stuffs to talk about.

Tom-Yum-Goong, this second film about elephant protector is too violence to me. I don’t know how you feel about fighting scene maybe it was Ok to you or good. I feel since that time that there’s need of good story teller.

Good story, good fighting scene would become a good action/martial art film. But fighting alone would never be enough to make the good film’s circulation.

I didn’t follow up closely to what happen in Tony Jaa since i watched Tom-Yum-Goong.

This morning via TwitchFilm, Tony is becoming a monk in a pagoda in Surin.

I read through the article posted by Todd Brown, I have learned that Tony got a lot of trouble with the film production and he did have a very bad time to finish the Ong Bak 2 and Ong Bak 3.

Would you go to see Ong Bak 2 or 3? I also left a comment on TwitchFilm and you can share your idea here or there.

I personally hope to see Tony return and make a good film.

The Original article was posted atpresstelegram.com

LONG BEACH – It’s called “Self-portrait as a Needle.” And artist-in-residence Meas Sokhorn’s art piece, which sprawls nearly from floor to ceiling, certainly qualifies as a work in his specialty, called large-scale installation.

While Meas’ work may be a kind of centerpiece, it won’t be all that’s on display. He is one of 33 artists whose work is to be shown at an exhibit opening today with a free public reception at Hancock University from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m., entitled Global Hybrid II.

The show builds on a July 2009 show called Global Hybrid I in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, that featured Cambodian, Cambodian-American and French artists with Khmer connections.

It is also an outgrowth of a show in Long Beach last April at the 2nd City Council Arts and Performance Space, called Transformation II: Bringing Contemporary Khmer/American Art to Long Beach.

The series of shows are part of an ongoing collaboration between several groups of artists and arts supporters, including Lydia Parusol, the art manager and curator of the Meta House gallery in Phnom Penh, and Denise Scott, who is also curating the exhibit and splits time living in Cambodia and the U.S.

Like last year’s show, the current exhibit is a kind of a moveable feast in sculpture, paint and multimedia of contemporary art and artists both from Cambodia and abroad.

Meas, for example, is in the midst of a three-month residency supported by the U.S. State Department. He has been working for seven weeks on “Self-portrait” which is an abstract, flowing sculpture constructed from about 7,000 chopsticks.

The day before the show opened, Meas was still filling in his piece and bemoaning the time constraints.

“The more time I have, the longer the song I can sing,” he said with a smile as he snipped off the end of a chopstick.

In another part of the large open space, Parusol displayed a multimedia piece by artist Chath Piersath, an artist, who fled Cambodia after the Pol-Pot regime to Massachusetts but has since returned to his homeland.

The interactive piece is a collection of blocks that can be flipped and rearranged, like a puzzle, to create different faces and identities.

Parusol said the piece is metaphoric in many ways of the changing faces of Cambodia and the country’s struggle to find and shape its own identity. This becomes particularly challenging as the once closed nation continues to grow into and be shaped by the global community.

Parusol says in Cambodia, young artists who don’t paint Buddhas or classical dancers have a hard time being recognized. Art education is nearly non-existent in schools and there is virtually no funding for the arts and very little interest among the country’s leadership, she says.

As a result, many artists use “found objects” or discarded materials to create art and tell stories.

One artist whose work is on display is Sokemtevy Oeur, a 26-year-old woman who has stirred the art scene in her home country with her portrayal, on canvas and in her own life, of women.

Global Hybrid II and other efforts by places like Meta House are trying create avenues for emerging artists.

Parusol says in Cambodia’s younger middle class there are flickers of knowledge and appreciation of modern art.

“It’s happening slowly, slowly,” Parusol said. “But, you know, it’s small steps, step by step.”

Not unlike what can be made of 7,000 chopsticks.

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Want to go?

What: Global Hybrid II art exhibit
Where: Hancock University, 1600 Long Beach Blvd.
When: Monday-Friday, 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. until May 7, or by appointment at 562-591-7080.

You might know already Chhom Nimol, singer for the group Dengue Fever. I love her voice and I love the band. They make the Cambodia rock around the world.

They now will do a concert to support artists at Cambodian Living Arts. I like their vision for the future of Cambodian Arts. I was quote one time already but I am not hesitate to quote it again here.

Here is the Cambodian Living Arts vision:

By the year 2020, Cambodia will experience a cultural renaissance so dynamic that the arts have become the country’s international signature.

Find as below the details of the concert and how to get yourself involved.

See you at the concert,

Date: Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Time: 8:00 pm – 11:00 pm
Location: PARKWAY CENTER, Phnom Penh
Street: 113 Mao Tse Toung Blvd. (St. 245)

$10 Tickets on sale at Rubies, Garage, Java, and CLA
For Info: 023 986 032, www.CambodianLivingArts.org

I used to ask everybody on my facebook profile, what is your favorite song today? I didn’t got any good answer yet. Today I found mine. It was on the way back home I listened to Radio show by DJ Lux (he’s a funny man). I started to like that radio channel 92.7 MHz.

I don’t know if there’s any other interesting program but DJ Lux is rising awareness of traffic law by asking questions to the callers. It’s a nice initial idea to help to minimize the traffic accident in Cambodia.

Ok talk back to my favorite songs,

It have been quite long time that I never listen to any song. I used to have on my record all the good songs around the world. I still have now a lot of songs in my itune library. These are my favorite songs posted so far:

1. Khmer Music | Bun Sak returns in SD 89
2. Khemarak Sereymon – 5000 USD Is Tlay Nas !!!
3. i am a fool to want you
4. Has anyone told you …?
5. Stanislas – La belle de mai
6. Why i am still dreaming of you?
7. Losing My Religion – R.E.M.
8. Sokun Nisa is back
9. Soulmate by Natasha Bedingfield
10. Tombe la neige, Sapon Midada Vs Salvatore Adamo

This evening Chhay Virakyuth voice was coming straight from his heart, telling all his secret love story in a touching way. I used to listen to his voice at the night club where he used to work in the past and I like some of his previous songs but this one I can’t let it go.

It’s sweet, innocent and beautiful. The song telling a story about a man that trying to tell his lovely sweetheart not to forget him. He asks his girlfriend to tell everybody that she is his girlfriend.

I like to way people confess frankly his feeling. It is hard to tell or write what we feel about. This one is the most Cambodia pop romantic song that you probably haven’t listened before.

I left a note on his facebook wall, hope we can get more details on this song soon. I hope to get his reply.

What’s the hell I am talking about? Where is the song?

Oh yeah. The song came under the title “Kom Phnech Brab Ke Tha Oun Chea Song Sa Bong” (Don’t forget to tell them that you are mine) in the album of Bing Man Production AUDIO VOL.6. You can now buy online the complete Audio CD for the cheap price of 2 USD. I am happy to see original production can sale their music online. This will help to support Cambodian local artist and Phnom Penh Music industry.

You can support the original artist by buying their music online direct via Bigman Production.