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| View Larger Image | Dengue Fever | Audio CDby Dengue Fever
| List Price: | $14.98 | | | Available: | Usually ships in 24 hours |
| | Binding: | Audio CD | | Studio: | Mimicry | | Release Date: | June 24, 2003 | | Sales Rank: | 97,608th |
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TRACK LISTING |
Disc: 1
- Track 1: Lost in Laos
- Track 2: I'm Sixteen
- Track 3: 22 Nights
- Track 4: Hold My Hips
- Track 5: Flowers
- Track 6: Thanks-A-Lot
- Track 7: New Year's Eve
- Track 8: Ethanopium
- Track 9: Glass of Wine
- Track 10: Shave Your Beard
- Track 11: Pow Pow
- Track 12: Connect Four
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EDITORIAL REVIEWS |
Album Description
2003 debut on the Mimicry label is multicultural pop featuring the vocals of Cambodian emigre Chhom Nimol (all the vocals are sung in Khmer). Retro surf guitar, the throwback psychedelic tone of the Farfisa organ, rhythms on songs like 'Pow Pow' that conjure visions of James Bond dancing the Swim in a Hong Kong nightclub, as well as the absence of any post-punk or disco residue, create a sense of time displacement. This music could just as easily have been heard decades ago, long before American demographics had absorbed Asian pop influences. 12 tracks. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.5 based on 13 reviews)
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Dengue Fever is Highly Contagious and pure joy to catch by GraceNoteX (Houston, TX United States)  5 Stars
November 21, 2009
Given Dengue Fever's Cambodian lead singer, their love for Cambodian rock and the cover songs from the heyday of Khmer pop on this CD, it would be easy to mistake them for either a world beat revival band or worse, a one-trick novelty act. It would also be a major mistake that could rob you of one of the best musical experiences currently available.
The fact that the Holtzman brother's have an interesting back story, or that vocalist Chhom Nimol has a compelling story of her own is totally unimportant to enjoying this CD. The musicianship is fantastic, Nimol's voice soars and songs like "Hold My Hips" and "Shave Your Beard" are achingly beautiful pop. When they crank up the energy it is pure bliss.
Singing in Khmer could easily be a gimmick, but here it just proves what a naturally musical language Khmer actually is, and that the real depth of music isn't communicated by words anyway. This is brilliant, energetic, emotional pop.
It's the best elements of catchy tunes, psychedelia, and jazz. It's like some bizarre hybrid of T.Rex, Garage A Trois, Tommy James, and Molam Dub that works to joyful brilliance. I have a large music collection, and every time I pull out this CD, it ends up staying in by changer for weeks.
Warning, you'll want more than one of their CDs once you catch Dengue Fever. If I could put in words how much joy there is in this music, you wouldn't leave this page without ordering a copy.
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Great Album by clf 5 Stars
January 31, 2009
We heard this band on PBS and just loved it so we ordered all of their albums. Very danceable.
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not as good as the 2nd album but still fabulous by Michael Ethan Gold 5 Stars
March 03, 2007
heh i just got back from 10 days in cambodia...didn't get a chance to hit up any of the local music scenes but hearing this, i wish i had. anyway, this really is the yin to the second album's yang...mostly because once you're finished listening to "escape" you simply must have more of this intoxicating stuff.
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Dengue Fever Music CD by Ra Nam  1 Stars
November 09, 2006
Dengue Fever should never have try to play Cambodian Rock. Their songs selection is really bad and they sound aweful!
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I love this band. by Rudie (Europe) 5 Stars
August 26, 2006
This is an album packed with good music. The singers voice is lovely (and her body ... she's hot!), the band is proffesional and the sound is a perfect mix.
It's easy to like, even I can't understand a word she's singing. I will look forward to get more from this band!
You should buy this CD, and listen to it a lot.
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SIMILAR PRODUCTS |
| Escape from Dragon House
by Dengue Fever
"If you can imagine a band where a Cambodian beauty queen shares the stage with Rasputin, Barry White, Allen Ginsberg, Michael Hutchence, and Brian Wilson, you'd have a pretty good idea of the group Dengue Fever." -- L.A. TIMES "Her voice is swathed in reverb, becoming instantly mythic." -- THE WIRE "The culture clash inherent to this band gives its debut a dynamic flair." -- TIME OUT NEW YORK "Dengue Fever is at the vanguard of an emerging global pop sensibility, making...
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| Venus on Earth
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"A unique and surprisingly danceable group that combines a beautiful Khmer-language vocalist from Cambodia and a quintet of seasoned locals with a knack for mixing Southeast Asian pop, Vietnam-war-era lounge music, klezmer, ska, surf rock, and Ethiopian jazz." -- SPIN psychedelic. They are world music. They are anything but mainstream. There is virtually no other band in the world playing "Khmer Rock," the style of 1960s Cambodian rock derived from Armed Forces Radio in Southeast Asia...
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| Sleepwalking Through the Mekong
Starring: Dengue Fever
Studio: Allegro Media Group Release Date: 05/12/2009 Run time: 70 minutes
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| Cambodian Rocks Volume 1
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Before the genocide in Cambodia in 1975, Cambodians traveled in and out of France and became very influenced by the western music. Can you imagine music echoed from the Beatles, Bee Gees, Monkees, Santana, Van Morrison, Scott McKenzie, Carpenters, and much more in Cambodian versions and lyrics?! These two collections prove it all with many more to be heard in the future compilation. These late-60's/early 70's era songs have a sound that's completely inexplicable despite the use of standard...
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| Escape from Dragon House
by Dengue Fever
On "Escape From Dragon House" the sound is denser, thicker and richer than on their 2003 self titled debut. Escape From Dragon House is darker musically and lyrically with a fully relized style melting all of their incluences into one realized voice that's pure Dengue Fever.
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