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01. BANTEAY AMPIL BAND - My Last Words
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02. BANTEAY AMPIL BAND - Please Take Care Of My Mother
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03. BANTEAY AMPIL BAND - Tuol Tneung (The Hillock Of The Vine)
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04. BANTEAY AMPIL BAND - Don't Forget Khmer Blood
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05. BANTEAY AMPIL BAND - Sereika Armed Forces
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06. BANTEAY AMPIL BAND - Follow The Front
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07. BANTEAY AMPIL BAND - I'm Waiting For You
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08. BANTEAY AMPIL BAND - Please Avenge My Blood, Darling
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09. BANTEAY AMPIL BAND - Destroy The Communist Viet!
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10. BANTEAY AMPIL BAND - Look At The Sky
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11. BANTEAY AMPIL BAND - Vietnamese Sparrows
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12. BANTEAY AMPIL BAND - The Vietnamese Have Invaded Our Country
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ARTIST
BANTEAY AMPIL BAND
TITLE
Cambodian Liberation Songs
FORMAT
CD
LABEL
AKUPHONE
CATALOG #
AKU 1004CD
AKU 1004CD
GENRE
WORLD
RELEASE DATE
3/17/2017
Cambodian Liberation Songs
is a painful call from forgotten resistance fighters. It is a captivating and moving record, a touching testimony of Cambodian history, that brings to the world the breathless voice of the resistance members of the resistance from the
Banteay Ampil Band
. Released in 1983,
Cambodian Liberation Songs
is a mysterious and overwhelming record. As a genuine piece of history, this "eloquent sadness and fierce passion" runs the gamut of Cambodian music, from folk to rock, expressing their suffering and pain. On April 17, 1975, the Cambodian people, already crushed under national and international conflicts, were commanded by force to forget their own past; It was "Year 0" of the Khmer Rouge calendar. Almost four years of genocide would follow before the start of a war between the Vietnamese army and the Khmers Rouge. Resistance units engaged in the conflict against what they considered as a Vietnamese invasion. This record, produced by a resistance group, was given the reference number KHMER 001. It was undoubtedly the first record composed and performed by non-Khmer Cambodians after the tragic events of 1975-79. The refugee camp of Ampil, near the Thai border, witnessed the creation of the Banteay Ampil Band. Musicians and female singers, who had hidden their talents during the genocide, gathered around the composer and violinist
Oum Dara
to engage in a new struggle: the resistance. Oum Dara, who had been a composer for
Sin Sisamouth
and
Ros Srey Sothea
, among others, adapted several of his creations. It is therefore, with a poignant charm, that the Banteay Ampil Band binds together the golden age of Khmer music from the 1960s with the traditional repertoire and the context of their daily struggles. Violin, guitar and voices work together to produce melancholic and intense songs - the stirring tone of grief expressed by these resistant fighters. The band went to Singapore to record
Cambodian Liberation Songs
, the only record of the "Khmer People's National Liberation Front".
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