City of Ghosts

City of Ghosts Artist: Various Artists
Label: Lakeshore Records
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Format: Soundtrack
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 780163373325
EAN: 0780163373325
ASIN: B00008XEQ6


Release Date: 2003-04-29

City of Ghosts


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Tracks:

  1. Both Sides Now - Dengue Fever
  2. Et moi, et moi, et moi - Jacques Dutronc
  3. Wait Ten Months - Ros Srey Sothea
  4. Sak Kra Va - Chan Chaya
  5. Do You Believe In Love At Sight - McKinney's Cotton Pickers
  6. Hilo Hula - Mike Hanapi & The Ilima Islanders
  7. Have You Seen My Love - Ros Sorei Sothea
  8. Parlez Moi D'Amour - Lucienne Boyer
  9. I Want A Little Girl - McKinney's Cotton Pickers
  10. Mou Pei Na - Sin Sisamout
  11. Coining - Maes Samouen
  12. Giant Woman - Pen Ran
  13. Close Fit Blues - Clarence Williams
  14. I'm Sixteen - Ros Srey Sothea
  15. Ne Te Fache Pas - Sin Sisamout
  16. Love Pillow - Choun Malai
  17. Dear 5 - Peter Whitehead

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  1. Dengue Fever
  2. Cambodian Rocks Volume 1
  3. Escape from Dragon House
  4. City of Ghosts
  5. Cambodian Rocks Volume 3

Amazon.com

Matt Dillon has assembled a remarkably eclectic mix of songs for the soundtrack of his directorial debut <I>City of Ghosts</I>, a thriller set in present day Cambodia. The CD opens with a charming version of Joni Mitchell's "Both Sides Now" performed in Khmer by the Los Angeles band Dengue Fever and goes on to feature French pop songs, 1920s jazz and Hawaiian tunes, the ambient music of Peter Whitehead, and lots of Cambodian songs from the 1960s and early 1970s. This last category includes tracks by Sin Sisimouth, who was Cambodia's biggest heartthrob in the '60s, and Ros Serey Sothea, who was known as the Queen of Khmer Music. The Cambodian songs are wildly creative and include folk songs like Chan Chaya's "Sak Kra Va," which is performed on traditional Khmer instruments; "Love Pillow," a ballad by Choun Malai that wouldn't sound out of place on a collection of '60s singers like Dusty Sprinfield and Jackie DeShannon; and Ros Serey Sothea's "Have you Seen My Love," which blends a stabbing electric organ rhythm pattern with weirdly distorted guitars. Sadly, most of the Cambodian performers heard on these recordings didn't survive the Khmer Rouge's reign of terror of the late 1970s and Dillon has dedicated this CD to their memories. <I>--Michael Simmons</I>

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars The Khmer version of Both Sides Now is a masterpiece .......2007-04-24

Any student of Khmer needs to study the beautiful adaptation of Both Sides Now. Pure genius that deserves wide recognition both in Cambodia and overseas.

4 out of 5 stars A Wonderful, Haunting, Exotic Soundtrack.......2005-06-16

The version of the Joni Mitchell anthem to disillusionment, 'Both Sides Now' sung in Khmer by the retro-Cambodian psychedelic band Dengue Fever alone is worth the price of this record. And the more I listen to it the more I love the rest of the album. I'd never heard any of this music before I saw the movie by chance on TV, and it's astounding, driving, wild stuff that instantly creates a world of its own. One verse of 'Mao Pena' (apparently "Thanks a Lot" in Khmer) and you'll be instantly transported to the back of a crappy Peugeot taxi some rainy night in Phnom Penh circa 1970. Just a great record!

4 out of 5 stars

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