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▓ ▐█████▓█ Album........: Prophet 39 - Cambodge-Musique khmΦre ▀ ░
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▓████▓▌ 01. Orchestre pinn peat 07:47 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ (Du Wat Rajabo) - Si nuorn ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 02. Orchestre dit 'De mariage' 04:46 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ (avec Slek) - no title ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 03. Orchestre mohori (De l'Urba) - Tayak nork 04:22 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 04. Vung phleng kar boran 04:37 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ (Du Wat Rajabo) - Mean rong reay ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 05. Orchestre Pinn Peat 10:52 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ (Du Wat Rajabo) - Airs du reamker ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 06. Orchestre Vung Phleng Kar Boran 06:07 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ (Du Wat Rajabo) - Som pong lom ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 07. Orchestre Pinn Peat 05:04 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ (Du Wat Rajabo) - Deux airs ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 08. Orchestre dit 'De mariage' 03:48 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ (avec Slek) - no title ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 09. Orchestre Mohori - Khmer dombanh et bey jorn 03:35 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 10. VA - Musique pour le reamker 22:45 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ ▓▌
▓████▓▌ [ A B O U T . T H i S . R E L E A S E ] ▓▌
▓████▓▌ ▓▌
▓████▓▌ "Cambodia is situated in the southern part of the ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Indo-Chinese peninsula, and is surrounded by ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Vietnam, Laos, Thailand and the gulf of Thailand. ▓▌
▓████▓▌ The Khmer form by far the majority of a population ▓▌
▓████▓▌ that also includes the Cham (Muslims along the ▓▌
▓████▓▌ banks of the Mekong and the TonlΘ Sap) and other ▓▌
▓████▓▌ ethnic minorities scattered about the mountain ▓▌
▓████▓▌ regions. ▓▌
▓████▓▌ ▓▌
▓████▓▌ The Khmer people were at the origin of the world ▓▌
▓████▓▌ famous temples of Angkor, built between the ninth ▓▌
▓████▓▌ and the fourteenth centuries, buildings considered ▓▌
▓████▓▌ to be part of the great heritage of humanity. Khmer ▓▌
▓████▓▌ music is less well known, despite the reputation of ▓▌
▓████▓▌ the royal dances that are associated with it. It ▓▌
▓████▓▌ does, however, deserve to be treated with as much ▓▌
▓████▓▌ respect as the architecture or the sculpture, ▓▌
▓████▓▌ especially as both the latter reveal the antiquity ▓▌
▓████▓▌ and the continuity of the music, for scenes of ▓▌
▓████▓▌ music-making and of musical instruments similar to ▓▌
▓████▓▌ those used even today can be seen in the ▓▌
▓████▓▌ bas-reliefs of Angkor. To be true, the vicissitudes ▓▌
▓████▓▌ of history have not always been favourable, ▓▌
▓████▓▌ especially during the period of the Khmer Rouge ▓▌
▓████▓▌ (from 1975 to 1979), in the course of which a ▓▌
▓████▓▌ considerable number of artistes were driven into ▓▌
▓████▓▌ exile or, worse, were massacred or annihilated by ▓▌
▓████▓▌ sickness and poverty. Since the 1980s the process ▓▌
▓████▓▌ of restoration and of reconstruction has been ▓▌
▓████▓▌ taking place,thanks to the Cambodian ▓▌
▓████▓▌ themselves,international help and UNESCO. Cambodian ▓▌
▓████▓▌ musicians and musicologists such as Yun Khean ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Theara, Sam-Ang Sam or Keo Dorivan have made an ▓▌
▓████▓▌ invaluable contribution to the knowledge of Khmer ▓▌
▓████▓▌ musical art. The music and the dance teachers who ▓▌
▓████▓▌ have survived transmit their art to the younger ▓▌
▓████▓▌ generations, in particular within the framework of ▓▌
▓████▓▌ the Royal University of Fine Arts in Phnom Penh or ▓▌
▓████▓▌ the Buddhist temple of Wat Rajabo in Siem Reap. In ▓▌
▓████▓▌ addition, traditional dance and music spectacles ▓▌
▓████▓▌ are organised by certain private establishments, ▓▌
▓████▓▌ sometimes in a remarkable manner, as for example in ▓▌
▓████▓▌ the Apsara Theatre of the Angkor Village hotel in ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Siem Reap. Unfortunately some damage has proved ▓▌
▓████▓▌ irreparable, and the practice of music has been ▓▌
▓████▓▌ affected by the economic context and the often ▓▌
▓████▓▌ baneful intrusion of the media. Yet Khmer music ▓▌
▓████▓▌ carries on nonetheless, in its own way, in the ▓▌
▓████▓▌ lands of the diaspora (notably the USA and France) ▓▌
▓████▓▌ but mainly in Cambodia itself, where it has been ▓▌
▓████▓▌ reborn from the ashes in all its splendour, as the ▓▌
▓████▓▌ present recordings will demonstrate, made as they ▓▌
▓████▓▌ were in 2003 and 2004 in Phnom Penh, at the Royal ▓▌
▓████▓▌ University of Fine Arts, at Siem Reap,near the ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Banteay Srey temple of Angkor, in the Apsara ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Theatre and in the Buddhist Centre of Wat Rajabo. ▓▌
▓████▓▌ ▓▌
▓████▓▌ ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Track 1 Si nuorn by the pin peat orchestra of Wat ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Rajabo ▓▌
▓████▓▌ ▓▌
▓████▓▌ The vung phleng pinn peat is the principal court ▓▌
▓████▓▌ orchestra, its antiquity attested by the ▓▌
▓████▓▌ representations of musical instruments in the ▓▌
▓████▓▌ bas-reliefs of the temples of Angkor (Angkor Wat in ▓▌
▓████▓▌ particular). It is this orchestra that accompanies ▓▌
▓████▓▌ the royal dances, the masked theatre and the shadow ▓▌
▓████▓▌ theatre spectacles no less than the religious ▓▌
▓████▓▌ ceremonies. It also performs, as is the case here, ▓▌
▓████▓▌ in straight concerts, within the precincts of the ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Buddhist temple Wat Rajabo. It includes the ▓▌
▓████▓▌ following instruments: ▓▌
▓████▓▌ - srala∩, an oboe in hardwood with six holes and ▓▌
▓████▓▌ quadruple reed ▓▌
▓████▓▌ - roneat ek, a xylophone with 21 keys (upper ▓▌
▓████▓▌ register) ▓▌
▓████▓▌ - roneat thung, a xylophone with 16 keys (lower ▓▌
▓████▓▌ register); ▓▌
▓████▓▌ - kong vong toch, a circular set of 16 bossed ▓▌
▓████▓▌ gongs(upper register) ▓▌
▓████▓▌ - kong vong thomm, a circular set of 16 bossed ▓▌
▓████▓▌ gongs(lower register) ▓▌
▓████▓▌ - roneat dek, a metallophone with 21 keys in bronze ▓▌
▓████▓▌ -skor thomm, a pair of two large double-skinned ▓▌
▓████▓▌ drums, struck with two wooden sticks ▓▌
▓████▓▌ - sampho, a double-skinned drum, struck with the ▓▌
▓████▓▌ hands ▓▌
▓████▓▌ - chhing, a pair of small cymbals ▓▌
▓████▓▌ ▓▌
▓████▓▌ The musicians are all young pupils who received ▓▌
▓████▓▌ their training in the Buddhist temple of Wat Rajabo ▓▌
▓████▓▌ in Siem Reap, from the old masters who had survived ▓▌
▓████▓▌ the period 1975-1979. ▓▌
▓████▓▌ ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Recording made in January 2003 in Siem Reap. ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ Track 2 Wedding orchestra with slek ▓▌
▓████▓▌ ▓▌
▓████▓▌ A small orchestra composed of handicapped persons, ▓▌
▓████▓▌ is performing different airs from the repertoire of ▓▌
▓████▓▌ wedding music, close to the Banteay Srey temple in ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Angkor. It consists of krapeu or takhΘ, a standing ▓▌
▓████▓▌ zither with three strings (one a drone) sounded ▓▌
▓████▓▌ with a wooden plectrum; khimm toch, a zither with ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 14 double or triple strings, struck with a pair of ▓▌
▓████▓▌ sticks with slit ends (similar to the Indian ▓▌
▓████▓▌ santur);tror sau thom, a two-string fiddle with ▓▌
▓████▓▌ cylindrical bamboo body (high register);tror ou, a ▓▌
▓████▓▌ two-string fiddle with coconut shell body (low ▓▌
▓████▓▌ register); chhing, a pair of small cymbals; skor ▓▌
▓████▓▌ arakk, a one-skin drum; slek, a leaf. Melody ▓▌
▓████▓▌ produced by a special way of blowing the slek ▓▌
▓████▓▌ between the lips, sounds like whistling. ▓▌
▓████▓▌ ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Recording made in January 2004 in Angkor. ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ Track 3 Tayay nork by the R.U.F.A mohori orchestra ▓▌
▓████▓▌ ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Founded in 1965 under the High Patronage of King ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Norodom Sihanouk, devastated ten years later by the ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Khmer Rouge regime, and then reopened in January ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 1981, the Royal University of Fine Arts in Phnom ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Penh houses the National Conservatory where music ▓▌
▓████▓▌ and dance are taught. ▓▌
▓████▓▌ ▓▌
▓████▓▌ The vung phleng mohori is an orchestral formation ▓▌
▓████▓▌ that is more often to be found at secular ▓▌
▓████▓▌ celebrations, although it can and does perform at ▓▌
▓████▓▌ court ceremonies. It consists, here, of the ▓▌
▓████▓▌ teachers and pupils of the Royal University for the ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Fine Arts who play Tayay nork with the following ▓▌
▓████▓▌ instruments: ▓▌
▓████▓▌ - roneat ek, a xylophone with 21 keys, by the ▓▌
▓████▓▌ master Phreung Phroun ▓▌
▓████▓▌ - roneat thung, a xylophone with 16 keys, by the ▓▌
▓████▓▌ master Chum Kong ▓▌
▓████▓▌ - krapeu or takhΘ, a standing zither with three ▓▌
▓████▓▌ strings (one a drone) sounded with a wooden ▓▌
▓████▓▌ plectrum, by the master Ek Son ▓▌
▓████▓▌ - khloy, a straight flute with six holes and one ▓▌
▓████▓▌ back hole (for the thumb) ▓▌
▓████▓▌ - tror sau thom, a two-string fiddle with ▓▌
▓████▓▌ cylindrical bamboo body (high register) ▓▌
▓████▓▌ - tror ou, a two-string fiddle with coconut shell ▓▌
▓████▓▌ body (low register); ▓▌
▓████▓▌ - tror thomm, a large two-string fiddle with ▓▌
▓████▓▌ sculpted wood resonator (of recent design and ▓▌
▓████▓▌ manufacture) ▓▌
▓████▓▌ - khimm toch, a zither with 14 double or triple ▓▌
▓████▓▌ strings, struck with a pair of sticks with slit ▓▌
▓████▓▌ ends (similar to the Indian santur); ▓▌
▓████▓▌ - thaun, a single-skinned drum, coupled to a ▓▌
▓████▓▌ rumanea, a frame drum; ▓▌
▓████▓▌ - chhing,a pair of small cymbals ▓▌
▓████▓▌ ▓▌
▓████▓▌ ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Recording made in January 2003 in Phnom Penh. ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ Track 4 Mean rong reay by the vung phleng kar boran ▓▌
▓████▓▌ of Wat Rajabo ▓▌
▓████▓▌ ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Marriage ceremonies are very important events in ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Cambodia. In earlier days they would last for seven ▓▌
▓████▓▌ days and seven nights, then they were reduced to ▓▌
▓████▓▌ three days and three nights, and today they last ▓▌
▓████▓▌ hardly more than a day and a night. One type of ▓▌
▓████▓▌ orchestra, the vung phleng kar boran, probably the ▓▌
▓████▓▌ most popular and the most widespread in Cambodia, ▓▌
▓████▓▌ is expecially attached to this ceremony. The ▓▌
▓████▓▌ instruments employed are the following: ▓▌
▓████▓▌ - pey prabauh, a bamboo oboe with double reed and ▓▌
▓████▓▌ eight holes, one of which is covered with a ▓▌
▓████▓▌ membrane (kazoo) ▓▌
▓████▓▌ - two tror Khmer, a three-string fiddle ▓▌
▓████▓▌ - khse diev, a monochord with calabash resonator ▓▌
▓████▓▌ - chapey dang veng, a large, two-string lute ▓▌
▓████▓▌ - two skor arakk, open, single-skinned drums ▓▌
▓████▓▌ - chhing, a pair of cymbals ▓▌
▓████▓▌ ▓▌
▓████▓▌ The eight musicians here perform mean rong reay ▓▌
▓████▓▌ (the chicken's cackle),under the conducting of ▓▌
▓████▓▌ master Man Mein who plays himself the tror khmer. ▓▌
▓████▓▌ ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Recording made in January 2004 in Siem Reap. ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ Track 05 Reamker's airs by the pinn peat orchestra ▓▌
▓████▓▌ of Wat Rajabo ▓▌
▓████▓▌ The vung pheng pinn peat orchestra is the same as ▓▌
▓████▓▌ that heard in track 01. Here, in the presence of an ▓▌
▓████▓▌ assembly of dignitaries and students from the ▓▌
▓████▓▌ monastery of Wat Rajabo, it plays a concert medley ▓▌
▓████▓▌ of airs from the Reamker(see track 10):prathomm ▓▌
▓████▓▌ ,lear, smeu, cheut, ching cheut. ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ Recording made in January 2003 in Siem Reap. ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ Track 06. Som pong lom by the vung phleng kar boran ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ The marriage orchestra vung phleng kar boran, ▓▌
▓████▓▌ similar to that heard in track 4, is placed under ▓▌
▓████▓▌ the direction of maestro Man Main who plays the ▓▌
▓████▓▌ tror Khmer (a three-string fiddle) alongside his ▓▌
▓████▓▌ pupils. The latter play, respectively, the pey ▓▌
▓████▓▌ prabauh (a double-reeded oboe), the khse muoy (a ▓▌
▓████▓▌ monochord), the chapey dang veng (a large lute with ▓▌
▓████▓▌ two strings) and two skor arrak (open, ▓▌
▓████▓▌ single-skinned laced drums). The neak chrieng ▓▌
▓████▓▌ (singer) is one of the percussionists. ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ Track 7 Two songs by the pinn peat orchestra of Wat ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Rajabo ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ The same ensemble as that heard in tracks 01 and ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 05. The vung phleng pinn peat of the Wat Rajabo ▓▌
▓████▓▌ here plays two pieces from the classical ▓▌
▓████▓▌ repertory:orptey srock khmer( heart of Khmer) and ▓▌
▓████▓▌ len souy(for dancing) ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ Track 8 Wedding orchestra with slek ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ The same orchestra as in track 02,plays a folk ▓▌
▓████▓▌ tune, near the Banteay Srey ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ Track 09 Khmer dombanh and Bey jorn by the mohori ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ Khmer domban and Bey jorn are performed here by the ▓▌
▓████▓▌ same orchestra (vung phleng mohori) of the Royal ▓▌
▓████▓▌ University of Fine Arts(R.U.F.A) as described in ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ Track 10 Music for the Reamker ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ The Reamker is the Khmer version of the Ramayana, ▓▌
▓████▓▌ the famous Indian epic, just as the Phralak Phraram ▓▌
▓████▓▌ is the Laotian version (Prophet 40). It differs, ▓▌
▓████▓▌ however, from the Indian Ramayana in several ▓▌
▓████▓▌ respects, notably in that the characters of the ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Cambodian epic are not so much gods come down from ▓▌
▓████▓▌ heaven as human heroes whose names, moreover, have ▓▌
▓████▓▌ been given a Khmer identity. Rama becomes PrΘah ▓▌
▓████▓▌ RΘam; Lakshmana, PrΘah Leak; Ravana, Reap; Sita, ▓▌
▓████▓▌ NΘang SΘda. The Reamker, its antiquity attested by ▓▌
▓████▓▌ the images in the twelfth century bas-reliefs of ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Angkor Wat and of Banteay Samre, provides the ▓▌
▓████▓▌ principal subject matter in the repertory of court ▓▌
▓████▓▌ dances. The art of the Khmer dance lakhaon kbach ▓▌
▓████▓▌ boran, at heart originally a sacred dance, has had ▓▌
▓████▓▌ a long history, in the course of which periods of ▓▌
▓████▓▌ fulfilment have been followed by much darker ▓▌
▓████▓▌ moments, with sometimes the risk of distortion or ▓▌
▓████▓▌ even of disappearance. Today it lives on in part ▓▌
▓████▓▌ beyond the borders of Cambodia (in the countries of ▓▌
▓████▓▌ the diaspora), though especially in Cambodia, in ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Phnom Penh, within the Royal University of Fine ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Arts, where the old masters hand the tradition on ▓▌
▓████▓▌ to the young. The role of the royal family has been ▓▌
▓████▓▌ in this regard of capital importance. The current ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Minister of Culture and Fine Arts is Princess ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Norodom Bupha Devi, herself an erstwhile star ▓▌
▓████▓▌ dancer of the Royal Ballet. ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ Owing to its many world tours, the Royal Ballet of ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Cambodia has met with signal success beyond the ▓▌
▓████▓▌ frontiers of the home country. It was in 1906 that ▓▌
▓████▓▌ King Sisovath took with him, for the first time, ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Khmer dancers to the West (to Paris, to the PrΘ ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Catelan Theatre). The first tour was such a success ▓▌
▓████▓▌ that a fresh performance had to be given that same ▓▌
▓████▓▌ evening in order to satisfy an impatient audience. ▓▌
▓████▓▌ The Khmer dance is truly a very great art form ▓▌
▓████▓▌ which, in spite of its complexity, is quite capable ▓▌
▓████▓▌ of attracting the layman by virtue of the elegance ▓▌
▓████▓▌ of its movements, the beauty of the women, the ▓▌
▓████▓▌ costumes, the jewelry and the brilliance of the ▓▌
▓████▓▌ masks. Nonetheless, in order to appreciate it ▓▌
▓████▓▌ thoroughly, it is indispensable to understand the ▓▌
▓████▓▌ significance of every gesture, every position of ▓▌
▓████▓▌ the head, the arms, the legs, the fingers. Only ▓▌
▓████▓▌ then can a true connoisseur follow all the details ▓▌
▓████▓▌ of the action in this complete musical spectacle, ▓▌
▓████▓▌ including as it does mime, dance and theatre. ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ The Reamker is an epic that requires several whole ▓▌
▓████▓▌ days if it is to be given in its totality. Only a ▓▌
▓████▓▌ few sequences can be presented in a normal ▓▌
▓████▓▌ performance. Here, NΘang SΘda is prisoner of the ▓▌
▓████▓▌ demon RΘap. PrΘah Ream and his brother PrΘah Leak ▓▌
▓████▓▌ followed by Hanuman, the chief of the white ▓▌
▓████▓▌ monkeys, will fight together against the troops of ▓▌
▓████▓▌ the demon RΘap and finally deliver NΘang SΘda. All ▓▌
▓████▓▌ the roles are held by women (including the ▓▌
▓████▓▌ masculine parts) except for the monkeys (played by ▓▌
▓████▓▌ men). The action is guided by the pinn peat ▓▌
▓████▓▌ orchestra (similar to that heard in track 01) of ▓▌
▓████▓▌ the Apsara Theatre, notably the skor thomm and ▓▌
▓████▓▌ sampho drums, while the narrative is sung by the ▓▌
▓████▓▌ naek chrieng(the young vocalists and the soloist ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Sitha Sok). ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ Recording made in January 2004 in Siem Reap. ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ With the help of Teruo Jinnai and Suon Bun Rith of ▓▌
▓████▓▌ UNESCO, Yun Khean Theara and Keo Dorivan of the ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Royal University for the Fine Arts in Phnom Penh, ▓▌
▓████▓▌ of the Apsara Theatre of Angkor Village and of the ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Wat Rajabo in Siem Reap." ▓▌
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