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Cambodia: Traditional Music, Vol. 1: Instrumental and Vocal Pieces

Various Artists
Album cover for the release Cambodia: Traditional Music, Vol. 1: Instrumental and Vocal Pieces.

Traditional Cambodian music can be heard at a number of occasions — for example, spiritual rites, weddings, Buddhist festivals, and performances of shadow theatre (a kind of shadow puppetry). In Cambodia: Traditional Music, Vol. 1, the phleng khmer ensemble and pinpeat ensemble play instruments such as the kse diev (one–string lute), phlom slek (“blow leaf”), pai–ar (bamboo flute), chhing (hand cymbals), and skor arak (small drum). The musicians improvise words and vocables around an underlying structure and follow their fellow performers to create complex layers of rhythm.


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Track Listing

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Khse diev player
03:11
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102
Phlom slek player
03:32
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103
Krom phleng khmer ensemble
05:15
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104
Krom phleng kar ensemble
02:52
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105
Chhayam percussion ensemble
06:22
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106
Pinpeat ensemble of the Royal Palace
02:07
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107
Mahori ensemble of the Royal Palace
05:19
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108
Pinpeat ensemble of the Royal Palace
04:11
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109
Pinpeat ensemble of the Royal Palace
06:56