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| View Larger Image | Escape from Dragon House | Audio CDby Dengue Fever
| List Price: | $16.98 | | | Available: | Usually ships in 24 hours |
| | Binding: | Audio CD | | Format: | Enhanced | | Studio: | M80 | | Release Date: | March 27, 2007 | | Sales Rank: | 82,779nd |
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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 [Remix]
- Track 7: Escape from Dragon House
- Track 8: Made of Steam
- Track 9: Lake Dolores
- Track 10: Saran Wrap
- Track 11: Hummingbird
- Track 12: Revenge of the Tarantula [Remix][*]
- Track 13: Sui Bong [*][Multimedia Track]
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EDITORIAL REVIEWS |
Album Description
"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 familiar yet eerily unique music." -- KEXP Fronted by Cambodian pop star Ch'hom Nimol, who sings in Khmer, Los Angeles sextet Dengue Fever blends the rhythms of sixties Cambodian pop--heavily influenced by American surf, rock, and early psychedelic garage bands--with their own eclectic mix of American and international styles. Unlike the world music bands of the late eighties, Dengue Fever is more concerned with a universal groove and breaking down musical barriers than with notions of authenticity. There are echoes of Bollywood soundtracks, Ethiopian soul, American R&B, Cambodian folk, Spaghetti Western weirdness, and girl-group angst in the mix, but the resulting concoction is the band's own. On Escape from Dragon House, the sound is denser, thicker, and richer than on the group's 2003 self-titled debut. Escape from Dragon House is also darker, both musically and lyrically, with a fully realized style that melts all of the band's influences into one realized voice that is pure Dengue Fever. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 5.0 based on 10 reviews)
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Swirling Khmer-Psych Pop by echoes of empires (San Francisco, CA USA)  5 Stars
November 21, 2009
Who knew such a music existed - but it does, and we're lucky to have Dengue Fever bringing it to us. Take healthy doses of Ros Sereysothea (Cambodia's queen of Khmer garage rock and balladry) along with things like Fifty Foot Hose, the Doors, Pink Floyd, the West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, Kak, etc - all darker voices in the psychedelic realm - and you'll begin to get an idea of what this band's all about. Beautiful Cambodian-influenced melodies sung (mostly) in beautiful Khmer, buzzing guitar lines, farfisa-ish organ, jazzy drumming, and fat inventive basslines - wow. The band's first record was a great cover album for Sereysothea and Sissamouth's songs, very true to form and great. This one grows a great deal, with more originals, a broadening of their sound - including funkier and heavier, and better production. It's great. Propulsive, melancholy, and passionate, you can't go wrong. If you're lucky enough to have them play live near you, go see them - they're great live too.
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Cambodian American with a 60s Feel by Lynn Ellingwood (Webster, NY United States) 5 Stars
July 28, 2009
I learned about this band on NPR. They got together after hearing 60s music rock music from Cambodia and decided to recreate it. They found a female singer fluent in Khmer to sing lead and off they went. It's so enjoyable and fun. The music has been featured on Weeds and True Blood. Buy it they are great!
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do not make a mistake by William Merrick (baghdad) 5 Stars
January 27, 2009
i am a fan of OI! and punk. i love this CD and if you need a fix, dengue fever can help you.
Cambodia is the greatest country.
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Music CD for shipment in France. by Lapierre Franck (France) 5 Stars
January 25, 2009
Everything ok, nothing to say, i received the both CD at home without any problem. Both are clean and look as new ones.
Thanx a lot.
Best regards.
F.
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Unreal! The best kind of Dengue Fever to get! by S. Jacobs (Northern Virginia) 5 Stars
September 08, 2008
I discovered Dengue Fever while listening to radioparadise.com. I'm sorry to say that I don't understand the khmer lyrics, but I find it fascinating all the same.
I love the musicianship on this CD. The keyboards nicely complement the sound. I now have all three of their CDs and am exploring music by other Cambodian artists.
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