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Escape from Dragon House | Audio CD

by Dengue Fever

List Price:

$18.98

Binding:

Audio CD

Format:

Enhanced

Studio:

Brg

Release Date:

September 13, 2005

Sales Rank:

79,102th

TRACK LISTING

Disc: 1

Track 1: We Were Gonna
Track 2: Sui Bong
Track 3: Tip My Canoe
Track 4: Tap Water
Track 5: Sleepwalking Through the Mekong
Track 6: One Thousand Tears of a Tarantula
Track 7: Escape from Dragon House
Track 8: Made of Steam
Track 9: Lake Dolores
Track 10: Saran Wrap
Track 11: Hummingbird

EDITORIAL REVIEWS

Album Description
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.

Amazon.com
Named for a remarkably unpleasant tropical disease, Dengue Fever is a seething Petri dish of mutating influences. The band was spawned when the American founders became fascinated by an unlikely combination of Cambodian music and Buda Musique's multi-volume Ethiopiques series, which documents that country¹s sixties pop heyday. Meanwhile, their future lead singer, famed Cambodian chanteuse Ch'hom Nimol, had grown up with East Asian/American hybrids which had erupted when local musicians internalized and transformed sounds they heard on Vietnam-war-era American Armed Forces Radio. Churning, vertiginous rhythms and honking sax lines betray the Ethiopian sources while stratospherically ornamented yet demure Cameroonian folkways inform the lead vocals (sung in English and Khmer) and Zac Holtzman¹s dan bau (a Vietnamese mono-string instrument). But the mix further incorporates campy organ riffs straight out of Question Mark and the Mysterians, the Shangri-Las' stiletto-edged girl-group theatrics and Ennio Morricone¹s surreal Spaghetti Western guitars. The group's stage persona is equally eclectic, ranging from a sweet-faced "Oriental" B-movie heroine, to a guy whose beard would scare the heck out of ZZ Top, to a latter-day Super-Fly clone. A testament to following your own star no matter what, Escape from Dragon House is at once blindingly authentic in the cosmic sense and delightfully deranged. --Christina Roden

CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 5.0 based on 20 reviews)

Come down with Dengue Fever! by Amaranth (Northern California)

5 Stars
January 19, 2008
Dengue Fever is wonderfully infectious. There's something in this album for everyone,for Asian music fans and merry tripsters alike! Think of a Cambodian Grateful Dead with a penchant for Dick Dale-like surf guitar,and a woman with an amazing voice. The opening "We were gonna" is a rousing,almost Beach Boys on acid like melody. "Sui Bong" is another joyous tune. "Sleepwalking through the Mekong" is dreamlike. It evokes a night in the rainforest, with the ruins of Angkor Wat luminous in the moonlight. "One Thousand Tears of the Tarantula" is an infectious acid jam;it was on the second season finale of Showtime's "Weeds." Trippin' indeed. "Lake Dolores" is a melancholy instrumental. "Made of Steam" and "Hummingbird" are sad,thoughtful ballads. "Escape from Dragon House" is a glorious escape into the world of Khmer rock! Come to the dragon house, come down with some Dengue Fever, and drink in the marvelous music!

Psychedelic Khmer Surf Music? by Edward H. Knight (Cave Creek, AZ)

5 Stars
October 25, 2007
While the above is a statistically improbable phrase, Dengue Fever pulls it off magnificently. I'm biting at the bit to see "Sleepwalking Through the Mekong," yet the nearest showing is over 100 miles away. Please come to Phoenix, folks! I have no idea what Ms Nimol is saying, yet that doesn't matter a bit.

AAAAH it's SOOO good by Michael Ethan Gold

5 Stars
March 03, 2007
crazy hypnotic world-ish music that sounds like Asian Dave Matthews Band. listen and let your mind get blown.

A very good album...again. by Rudie (Europe)

4 Stars
August 29, 2006
This second album of Dengue Fever is as almost good as the first. I think some of the songs at the end ain't too good. But the tunes 1-7 is perfect, maybe? All over, it's a good album, fun to listen.

Awesome by Larry Chy

5 Stars
August 16, 2006
This is so cool to hear this eccletic fusion of classic Khmer singing with all types of western instruments! I love it!

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