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"DON'T THINK I'VE FORGOTTEN" Cambodia's Lost Rock And Roll Soundtrack Album of Music From The Film by John Pirozzi Digital Download Included
Dust To Digital Records, 2016 2-LPS

 The soundtrack to the celebrated 2014 documentary film Don't Think I've Forgotten: Cambodia's Lost Rock and Roll.
On April 17, 1975, Phnom Penh fell to the Khmer Rouge and Cambodian rock and roll was no more. Its star musicians were targeted and killed, record collections were destroyed, clubs were closed, and Western-style music-making, dancing, and clothes were outlawed. 
The deaths of approximately two million Cambodians and the horrors of the Killing Fields have been well documented; add to this John Pirozzi's fascinating tale of Cambodia's vibrant pop music scene, beginning in the 1950s and '60s and influenced by France's Johnny Hallyday and Britain's Cliff Richard and the Shadows. 
Cambodian culture has long been synonymous with a love for the arts. Don't Think I've Forgotten pays homage to the country's rock legends who paid for their creativity with their lives. 
Punctuating rare archival footage with telling interviews with the few surviving musicians, Don't Think I've Forgotten examines and unravels Cambodia's tragic past through the eyes, words, and songs of its popular music stars of the '50s, '60s, and '70s. 
Compiled by Pirozzi, the soundtrack album is very cinematic in nature -- the sequencing and remastered audio transport the listener through the rock and roll history of Cambodia in a way that parallels the film. 
It is both entertaining and essential to hear so many tracks that have never before been available outside of Cambodia. 
Performers include The Royal University of Fine Arts, Sinn Sisamouth, Chhoun Malay, Huoy Meas, Baksey Cham Krong, Ros Serey Sothea, Pen Ran, Sieng Vannthy, Va Sovy, Drakkar, Pou Vannary, Yol Aularong, and Cheam Chansovannary. 
- "It's not hard to see why someone might be obsessed with this music, or this portion of history. There are the 'Shakespearian' elements of the complicated pre-Khmer Rouge political situation, yes, but the music that emerged from it is just as dynamic. It hits a spot between fun and rich, easy to bop around to as well as kind of mesmerizing." --Lauren Oyler, Vice 
- "Just listening to Sinn Sisamouth belt out 'Dance a Go Go' or Pou Vannary's haunting cover of Carole King's 'You've Got a Friend' is to be instantly transported back in time." --G. Allen Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle 
- "For proof of the universality of rock 'n' roll, look no further than Cambodia in the 1960s and '70s. Even there, young people picked up electric guitars and studied Mick Jagger's moves, melding Eastern melody with Western groove in ways that are still strikingly fresh. . . . The music they made remains treasured not only by Cambodians but also by rock connoisseurs around the world, for a spunky inventiveness that now, in retrospect, makes Cambodia seem a sparkling outpost of world pop." --Ben Sisario, The New York Times 
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