FRIDAY 14 – 15 |The Cambodian Space Project started in late 2009 as little more than a musical one-night stand. The band’s founding duo, Tasmanian guitar man Julien Poulson and Cambodian singer Kak Chanthy, agreed to an experimental set at Meta House simply out of shared curiosity. Those humble beginnings reverberate in the juxtaposition of the band’s equally sublime name. That perennially cash-strapped Cambodia would build a zillion-dollar space programme seems about as likely as a Phnom Penh band that plays Cambodian wedding hits reaching international acclaim. But stranger things have happened.
WHO: Cambodian Space Project
WHAT: Tripped-out ’60s psychedelia
WHERE: Equinox, #3a St. 278 (March 14) & Knai Bang Chatt, Kep (March 15)
WHEN: 9pm March 14 & 15
WHY: See ‘WHAT’