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

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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 khse 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
Chayyam percussion ensemble with male voices
06:22
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106
Khrom phleng pinpeat ensemble
02:07
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107
Mohori ensemble
05:19
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108
Khrom phleng pinpeat ensemble
04:11
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109
Khrom phleng pinpeat ensemble
06:56