Groove Club Vol.2: Cambodia Rock Spectacular!

Various Artists, “Groove Club Vol.2: Cambodia Rock Spectacular!” (Lion Productions, 2010; original recording late ‘60s, early ‘70s)
Late ‘60s/early ‘70s pop from Cambodia. This mixes Britbeat/girl-group/surf influences with local musical strains in ways that may seem familiar in the wake of all the reissued “A-Go-Go” era Southeast Asian pop, but still very distinctively. There’s a giddy, spiraling unpredictability to the fast ones; a thick, gorgeously tangled melancholy to the slow stuff, that really isn’t like anything else.
Try A/4, B/2, B/4, C/3, C/4
5/12/11