4/21/2008

Dengue Fever Shares Musical Journey

by Patricia Lamkin
Special to Asia
Photo courtesy Tracy Blackburn.


Dengue Fever’s Cambodian rock is looming large these days. This rising alternative L.A. band has been touring, getting on film soundtracks and was recently featured on NPR. But the real fascination is their multi-faceted music, and its biggest influence: the sounds of 60's Cambodian pop singers Ros Sereysothea and Sinn Sisamouth, and their Khmer spins on Western rock favorites.