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Music : Venus on Earth |
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List Price: $16.98Amazon.com's Price: $13.99 You Save: $2.99 (18%)Prices subject to change.
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0723721330354
Label: M80
Manufacturer: M80
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: M80
Release Date: January 22, 2008
Sales Rank: 2610
Studio: M80
Disc 1:- Seeing Hands
- Clipped Wings
- Tiger Phone Card
- Woman in the Shoes
- Sober Driver
- Monsoon of Perfume
- Integratron
- Oceans of Venus
- Laugh Track
- Tooth and Nail
- Mr. Orange
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Editorial Review:
Album Description:
'A unique and surprisingly danceable group that combines a beautiful Khmer-language vocalist from Cambodia and a quintet of seasoned locals with a knack for mixing Southeast Asian pop, Vietnam-war-era lounge music, klezmer, ska, surf rock, and Ethiopian jazz.' -- SPIN
psychedelic. They are world music. They are anything but mainstream. There is virtually no other band in the world playing 'Khmer Rock,' the style of 1960s Cambodian rock derived from Armed Forces Radio in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War. Sophomore album Venus On Earth features eleven original songs that expand on the band's sound but will please hardcore fans of both the group and the genre. There is no other band like Dengue Fever, which garners fans in everyone from indie kids to well-heeled world music consumers.
Amazon.com:
At last, Dengue Fever has made an album that quite nearly matches their incredible live performances. The group began at least as a tribute to the playful yet heavy psychedelic pop scene that flourished in Cambodia before Pol Pot came to power and silenced countless suspected dissidents in that country's infamous killing fields in the mid-1970s. Like the Cambodian pop music that so enamored them, Dengue Fever began by revitalizing strong elements of '60s surf and garage rock in their sound. Over time, they've expanded their influences to Ethiopian funk and modern dance-rock. Once a multi-culti California band with a Cambodian-born singer paying homage to the past, Dengue Fever now plays original, swirling, psychedelic pop. With Western audiences ever more open to hybrid sounds, it will be a huge surprise if Venus on Earth doesn't allow Dengue Fever to quit their day jobs for good, especially after the film about their trip to Cambodia, Sleepwalking through the Mekong, hits the festival circuit in 2008. --Mike McGonigal
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - chills and dengue fever
This album uses many, many influences but most notably old school r'n'b and eastern rythms. They remind me a little of The Go Team. Very uptempo with catchy tunes at every twist and turn. Inshort, a mish mash of old influences thrown into a concrete mixer, then regurtitated in a totally refreshing way. buy it now !!!
Rating:  - Promises, disappoints
The first track is awesome. Killer vocals and dense, powerful production. After that the songs sound pretty gimicky and all the male vocals are really weak. This band could be great but not here.
Rating:  - venus on earth by dengue fever
I happenened to come accross this group on pbs and just liked thier sound.It's as simple as that,I'm hooked on thier music.
Rating: - A Fresh Sound
I like all music, and this music is fresh! I heard an interview with the bandleader on PBS, and some cuts were played. The soloist's voice is truly addictive. Add this group to your collection, and you'll enjoy it.
Rating: - Great stuff
I can't tell you how fun this band is. The first CD is fun silly pop, the next two are darker and more moody but still have some lively party tunes. Hypnotic, addictive so catchy, you'll be singing in Khmer all day! I will say that the new songs in english take some of the fun out of the whole experience but I haven't been this excited about a band in many years.
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