m~u~s~u~c

Been bingeing African disco and related genres working on a compilation. I meant to post a bunch while I was Youtubeing, but got carried away.

So this batch’ll be cheating a bit, but here’s a song I found that I love a lot to start things off.

Thinking I’ll make a smooth Summer comp. with this on there too.

B~a~c~k~~~t~o~~~t~h~e~~~w~i~k~i

She has too many good songs.

I never ended up buying any Cambodian records apart from a few compilations, but Pen Ran would be the first artist I went for.

Tragically, she was one of many artists who didn’t manage to escape the Khmer Rouge.

Which made me think of this, one of the most beautiful songs I’ve ever heard.

Been working on a wiki page to collect together my fave covers of Western pop songs by Asian artists, and was reminded of this great version of Quando, Quando, Quando. The guitar is so good.

I like this idea of doing a cover where you take the melody but changes the words.

Khmer: គា្វន់ដូមាសស្នេហ៍

Y~o~u~t~u~b~e~d~~~o~u~t~~~

Aaaaaaaaa this one is very familiar. Not because it seems to be chunks from other songs.

Starting to wish I was this person TBQH.

That’s a damn catchy chorus. Kong must be very lonely.

2024 edit: This video predicted the death of Twitter.