CAMBODIA'S LOST ROCK AND ROLL
Documentary. "Don't Think I've Forgotten." Cambodian rock of the 1960s-70s was a flourishing and creative music scene based in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, in which musicians created a unique sound by merging traditional Cambodian music with rock and pop influences from records imported from Latin America, Europe, and the United States.

In the mid-1960s, artist Sinn Sisamouth had become Cambodia's most well-known pop music performer, and his music increasingly incorporated rock and roll influences, including psychedelic rock and garage rock. At this time, the Cambodian music scene was further influenced by Western rock and soul music through U.S. armed forces radio that had been broadcast to troops stationed nearby during the Vietnam War.

But this vibrant music scene was brusquely crushed by the Khmer Rouge communists (backed by China) in 1975, and many of its musicians disappeared or were executed, record collections were destroyed, clubs were closed, and Western-style music-making, dancing, and clothes were outlawed during the Cambodian genocide.

Due to its unique sounds and the tragic fate of many of its performers, the Cambodian rock scene has drawn the interest of music historians and record collectors, and the genre gained new popularity upon the international release of numerous compilation albums starting in the late 1990s.

This documentary film includes profiles of influential performers like Sinn Sisamouth, Ros Serey Sothea, Pen Ran, Baksey Cham Krong, Liev Tuk, Huoy Meas, Yol Aularong, Meas Samon, Pou Vannary, and several others (including Pen Ram, Pen Ran's sister), most of whom perished during the Khmer Rouge genocide, plus interviews with surviving performers like Sieng Vanthy and members of Drakkar.

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