The Roving Musicologist
Found Sound, Outsider, Street Performers, Sound Events, Experimental, Recorded and Posted with a minimum of interference.
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Travel Post #22: Funeral Music and Hello Ambushes (Kampot, Cambodia)
No Laughing Zone
Joseph Conrad was right, heat warps your mind. You can’t walk anywhere, any destination becomes a trudge. Even the novice monks at the temples seem out of sorts. Although the worst thing you could do is get married in this state of mind, weddings are a constant. Funerals, coming along on their own, feature repetitive rolling tones blasted out of a PA system that looks like something from an elementary school.
This recording is the result of a day of walking around in the sun in Kampot. One part of the recording is funeral music that was being played out of a PA system down a dirt road. The other part is the music produced in an unattended school of music, abandoned in anticipation of the Khmer New Year and full of nothing but percussion and wooden swords.
Play count: 30
