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| View Larger Image | Venus on Earth | Audio CDby Dengue Fever
| List Price: | $16.98 | | | Available: | Usually ships in 24 hours |
| | Binding: | Audio CD | | Studio: | M80 | | Release Date: | January 22, 2008 | | Sales Rank: | 7,670th |
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TRACK LISTING |
Disc: 1
- Track 1: Seeing Hands
- Track 2: Clipped Wings
- Track 3: Tiger Phone Card
- Track 4: Woman in the Shoes
- Track 5: Sober Driver
- Track 6: Monsoon of Perfume
- Track 7: Integratron
- Track 8: Oceans of Venus
- Track 9: Laugh Track
- Track 10: Tooth and Nail
- Track 11: Mr. Orange
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EDITORIAL REVIEWS |
Album Description
"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 during the Vietnam War. Sophomore album Venus On Earth features eleven original songs that expand on the band's sound but will please hardcore fans of both the group and the genre. There is no other band like Dengue Fever, which garners fans in everyone from indie kids to well-heeled world music consumers. |
Amazon.com
At last, Dengue Fever has made an album that quite nearly matches their incredible live performances. The group began at least as a tribute to the playful yet heavy psychedelic pop scene that flourished in Cambodia before Pol Pot came to power and silenced countless suspected dissidents in that country's infamous killing fields in the mid-1970s. Like the Cambodian pop music that so enamored them, Dengue Fever began by revitalizing strong elements of '60s surf and garage rock in their sound. Over time, they've expanded their influences to Ethiopian funk and modern dance-rock. Once a multi-culti California band with a Cambodian-born singer paying homage to the past, Dengue Fever now plays original, swirling, psychedelic pop. With Western audiences ever more open to hybrid sounds, it will be a huge surprise if Venus on Earth doesn't allow Dengue Fever to quit their day jobs for good, especially after the film about their trip to Cambodia, Sleepwalking through the Mekong, hits the festival circuit in 2008. --Mike McGonigal |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.5 based on 24 reviews)
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awesome sound! by Stephanie D. Swain  5 Stars
September 22, 2009
This group has a great different sound to them, it's relaxing yet upbeat. She has a beautiful voice too. I heard about them on the WWF website, they're pushing to save overfished dolphins and their habitats :-)
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Love This Band, Love This Music! by Lynn Ellingwood (Webster, NY United States) 5 Stars
April 15, 2009
I encountered Dengue Fever music on Weeds and the Weeds soundtrack CD. I then heard them on NPR Fresh Air and the now defunct National Geographic World Music podcast. I kept running into them and became more intrigued. Finally had to buy their CD, it's wonderful! The music is based on old Cambodian rock music from the 60s and 70s and upgraded to the 2000s! I love it and was happy to hear their music on True Blood one night too.
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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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Find a new lyricist please by N. Becton (Washington, DC)  3 Stars
January 20, 2009
These guys are great live and I love a lot of their songs but I just can't get past how bad some the lyrics are on this album. Maybe they're trying to imitate old Cambodian pop songs while including modern references but it just doesn't work.
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chills and dengue fever by Mr. Nd Jenkins  4 Stars
December 16, 2008
This album uses many, many influences but most notably old school r'n'b and eastern rythms. They remind me a little of The Go Team. Very uptempo with catchy tunes at every twist and turn. Inshort, a mish mash of old influences thrown into a concrete mixer, then regurtitated in a totally refreshing way. buy it now !!!
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| Escape from Dragon House
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"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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| Dengue Fever
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| Escape from Dragon House
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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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| 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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