Banteay Ampil Band

The Banteay Ampil Band Was Created In The Refugee Camp Of Ampil At The Border With Thailand. Musicians And Female Singers Who Had Hidden Their Talents During The Genocide Then Gathered Around The Composer And Violinist Oum Dara To Engage In A New Struggle The Resistance. Oum Dara Who Had Been A Composer For Sin Sisamouth And Ros Srey Sothea Among Others Adapted Several Of His Creations. It Is Therefore With A Poignant Charm That The Banteay Ampil Band Binds Together The Golden Age Of Khmer Music From The 1960s With The Traditional Repertoire And The Context Of Their Daily Struggles. Violin Guitar And Voices Match Together To Produce Melancholic And Intense Songs - The Stirring Tone Of Grief Expressed By These Resistants. The Band Went To Singapore To Record Cambodian Liberation Songs The Only Record Of The “Khmer People’s National Liberation Front”. read less