Cambodian Evictions Effect Students and Masters.

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This is the first report from Cambodian Living Arts (CLA) and deals with the Cambodian evictions from the land grab that has effected the students and the masters.

Presented by Arn Chorn-Pond. These reports were filmed, edited and completed by the students in cambodia. The DVD was then flown from Cambodia to the USA so it could be uploaded to sites.

Approximately ninety percent of Cambodia’s performing artists died during the Khmer Rouge regime, a devastating blow to all of Cambodia’s oral traditions. After the fall of the Khmer Rouge, this cultural tragedy was compounded by two subsequent decades of economic hardship, when very few of the surviving master musicians could make a living performing or teaching.

Cambodian Living Arts (CLA) was founded eight years ago by Arn Chorn-Pond, a Cambodian-American refugee who was featured in the Emmy-nominated movie, The Flute Player. Originally called the Cambodian Masters Performing Project (CMPP), Arn founded this organization when he first returned to Cambodia in order to support the music teachers who helped him survive the horrors of the Khmer Rouge.

CLA’s four core programs—teaching, performing, recording, and new commissions—support 16 master musicians and nearly 300 students and assistant teachers to develop skills and relationships that will enable them to generate income and develop as leaders, while also helping to preserve and celebrate their heritage.

CLA works with the belief that supporting arts education is a way for people to grow and develop and heal from the traumas and hardships of both the past and the present, not only because knowing the traditional arts keeps younger generations connected to their heritage and the elders in their community, but because through the mentoring and guidance process, the students and masters build their confidence, are able to exercise leadership skills, and nurture hopes for the future.

Three Sixty Records is working with Cambodian Living Arts (A project of World Education) to release the music from this program globally with 100% of all proceeds going back to CLA.

Space Funghi Project – Elektrik Psilosybe Experience

Artist: Space Funghi Project

Title: Elektrik Psilosybe Experience

Cat no: TSD391

Format: Digital

Genre: Electronic/World/Latin

UPC: 844185063197

Distributor: IODA

Distributor: Darkhorse

Tracklisting

01 Moran’s Jam
02 Funk5
03 Funky Monkey
04 Acapulco Cocktail
05 Mary Jane in My Mind
06 Space Train
07 Cosmonaut
08 Billy Big Mouth
09 Electrik Psilocybe Experience
10 The Great mighty Mushroom
11 Multicolor Cow
12 Peaceful and Quiet

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Description

“Space Funghi Project Sound like a night out listening to Red Holt, Miles Davis and Malo Playing together, with a long cocktail session in the Mos Eisley Bar.”

Album Notes

“Space Funghi Project Sound like a night out listening to Red Holt, Miles Davis and Malo Playing together, with a long cocktail session in the Mos Eisley Bar.”

Their unique programming and production style with blending of live instrumentation (drums, bass, guitar and sax), results in a hybrid of unique sounds on this album.

Recording sessions consisted of endless hours of playing improvisations and hypnotic live loops, with the microphones in the room recording all the time.

Then fusing these sounds with elements of ambient, lounge, drum n’ bass, rock and psychedelic electronics creating an album of future jazz monsters, but you have to judge that for yourselves.

Their music helps paint a picture of the spectacular sunsets in the bands’ native sunny Mexico.

All trained musicians (and you can here that down to the drums), these guys met while working on a TV show in Mexico. During the break when they jammed they had an idea that now is The Space Funghi Project.

Space Funghi create a unique sound, with great production, that lays somewhere in-between Amon Tobin and Underworld.

Dr. Panic
Gtrs, Loops Noises and Programing

Laluchis Drums
Acoustic Drums

Mr. Pink
Electric Upright-Bass

Capt’n Trubina
Saxophones