Various – Wounds of Love: Khmer Oldies, Vol. 1 [CD] Sound Art / Sound Poetry always mesmerizing and evocative

always mesmerizing and evocative

this new voice

a raging folk singer

and beautifully executed

Schaeffer would occupy his time with the manner in which sound recordings "revealed what was hidden in the act of basic acoustic listening" and in 1948 formally set about his research in earnest

Various – Wounds of Love: Khmer Oldies, Vol. 1 [CD] Sound Art / Sound Poetry always mesmerizing and evocative"From the late 1950s onwards a music scene developed around Cambodia's capital Phnom Penh, inspired by the prevalence of imported rock & pop records arriving in the country from US & UK and also chanson and bolero records from France & Latin America. This collection documents some of these early home grown slow rock, pop & rnb 45 recordings from the early 60s, prior to the further embrace of US psych & garage rock orientated sounds in the mid 60s and