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BANTEAY AMPIL BAND

CAMBODIAN LIBERATION SONGS
Label AKUPHONE
Catalog AKUCD1004
Format CD
Discs 1
Category WORLD/OTHERS/REGGAE
Street Date 2017-10-13
Description
“When I arrived at the Khmer-Thai border in September 1980 disorganized resistance cadres were busy repairing old guitar instrument by using shing line for guitar strings and employing a rusty empty gasoline tank as a drum. They played old Khmer pop songs. [ ...] They performed for themselves and for appreciative audiences of villagers. Other informal musical groups also came together to entertain themselves and others. One day in 1981 I photographed what was generally called the Bamteay Ampil Band.” Gaffar Peang-Meth November 2016Cambodian Liberation Songs is a painful call from forgotten resistance fighters. It is a captivating record a touching testimony of Cambodian history that brings to the world the breathless voice of these resistance members from the Banteay Ampil Band. Released in 1983 Cambodian Liberation Songs is a mysterious and overwhelming record. As a genuine piece of history this “eloquent sadness and fierce passion” runs the gamut of Cambodian music from folk to rock expressing their suffering and pain. On 17 April 1975 the Cambodian people already crushed under national and international conflicts was commanded by force to forget their own past; it was Year 0 of the Khmer Rouge calendar. Almost four years of genocide would follow before the start of a war between the Vietnamese army and the Khmer Rouge. Resistance units engaged in the conflict against what they considered a Vietnamese invasion. This record produced by a resistance group was given the reference number KHMER 001. It was undoubtedly the first record composed and performed by non-Khmer Rouge Cambodians after the tragic events of 1975-79.
tracklisting
1. My Last Words
2. Please Take Care Of My Mother
3. Tuol Tneung The Hillock Of The Vine
4. Don T Forget Khmer Blood
5. Sereika Armed Forces
6. Follow The Front
7. I M Waiting For You
8. Please Avenge My Blood Darling
9. Destroy The Communist Viet
10. Look At The Sky
11. Vietnamese Sparrows
12. The Vietnamese Have Invaded Our Country
 

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