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Dengue Fever (Deluxe Version)

Dengue Fever

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Format: CD

Cat No: TT001CD

Format Details: Deluxe Version

Release Date:  26 May 2017

Label:  Tuk Tuk Records

Packaging Type:  Digipak

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  020286221944

Genres:  World Music  Alternative  

Release Date:  15 July 2022

Label:  Tuk Tuk Records

Packaging Type:  Gate Fold Vinyl

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  020286236467

Genres:  World Music  Alternative  

  • Description

    Released originally in 2003, Dengue Fever's eponymous debut album will be reissued in May 2017 in a deluxe version with five additional bonus tracks. Never before released outside North America, this is the first time this album has been available in Europe and the rest of the world. Tracks on this release mostly consist of cover versions of Khmer/Cambodian classics by Khmer rock icons: Ros Sereysothea, Pan Ron and Sinn Sithamouth. The debut album by Dengue Fever is an indicator of where pop music is headed, particularly in areas of multicultural urban sprawl. Though Cambodian émigré Chhom Nimol's sinuous vocals dominate each song, Zachary Holtzman (guitar, vocals) plays an equally essential role in defining the band's direction. Retro surf guitar, the throwback psychedelic tone of the Farfisa organ, rhythms on songs like "Pow Pow" that conjure visions of James Bond dancing the Swim in a Hong Kong nightclub, as well as the absence of any post-punk or disco residue, create a sense of time displacement; this music could just as easily have been heard decades ago, long before American demographics had absorbed Asian pop influences. As a result, Dengue Fever also projects a feeling of being heard in another place, through the Asian modalities of its singsong melodies, the reverb that drenches Nimol's tracks and, above all, the fact that every vocal part, including those of the American-bred musicians, is in Khymer. This album matters, though, because of its relevance to a growing audience in the U.S. At long last, years after America tossed the seeds of its pop culture out into the world, the results are blowing back, taking root, and raising fascinating possibilities for what's to come in this newer New World. (AMG 2004)

    Description

    Dengue Fever on Vinyl! This Deluxe Reissue contains 5 bonus tracks not availble on the original release / w download. Fronted by amazing vocalist Chhom Nimol, Dengue Fever has surprisingly universal appeal - Chhom herself is already quite accustomed to seizing the hearts of listeners (including the King and Queen of Cambodia), as she comes from a family best considered as a Cambodia pop music dynasty– not unlike a Cambodian version of the Jacksons.

    The rest of the band is no flake-fest either, consisting of Zac Holtzman (Dieselhed) and his brother Ethan on Farfisa organ, Senon Williams (Radar Brothers), David Ralicke (Beck) and seasoned drummer/engineer Paul Smith. Their covers stay remarkably true to the crazy party music spirit of the '60s- and '70s-era originals. But there are also original songs, some of which veer off into the darkened corridors of lost love and ghostly noir romanticism, dissolving sometimes into spaces of genuine bleakness and tragedy — all in the Khmer tongue. Far from mere novelty or cheap Orientophile thrill, Dengue Fever keeps listeners on their toes, dancing to their way-out tones. The Deluxe Reissue contains 5 bonus tracks not availble on the original release.

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Lost In Laos
      • 2. I'm Sixteen
      • 3. 22 Nights
      • 4. Hold My Hips
      • 5. Dengue Fever
      • 6. Thanks-A-Lot
      • 7. New Year's Eve
      • 8. Ethanopium
      • 9. Glass Of Wine
      • 10. Shave Your Beard
      • 11. Pow Pow
      • 12. Connect Four
      • 13. A Go Go (Remix)
      • 14. Doo Wop (Live At The Rickshaw Stop 2004)
      • 15. Hold My Hips (Paul Dreux Smith Remix 2004)
      • 16. Lost In Laos (Tom Chasteen Remix)
      • 17. Thanks-A-Lot (Live At Spaceland 2004)

    Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Lost In Laos
      • 2. I'm Sixteen
      • 3. 22 Nights
      • 4. Hold My Hips
      • 5. Flowers
      • 6. Thanks A Lot

      Side 2

      • 1. New Year's Eve
      • 2. Ethanopium
      • 3. Glass Of Wine
      • 4. Shave Your Beard
      • 5. Pow Pow
      • 6. Connect Four