Music Challenge --Day 16 -Astronomy Class, Four Barang in a Tuk Tuk

Another oddball choice. The world is so interesting and mixed up these days. You can go to your computer, start surfing and come across the most interesting things --things like this.

I have no idea how popular the song is, to be honest. None at all.

Astronomy Class is an Australian musical group and for this song they teamed up with Kak Channthy, lead singer of the Australian group "Cambodian Space Project," another group that is fun. Although Channthy sings in Cambodian (Khmer) she was a resident of Australia.

Sadly, not only does this song sample Anthony Bourdain (RIP) but when I rechecked the singer's name, Kak Channthy  I discovered she too has passed away, dead at age 38 in a vehicle crash in Phnom Penh, while travelling in an auto-rickshaw or Tuk-Tuk. You may find an obituary to her here:

https://www.phnompenhpost.com/post-life-arts-culture/cambodian-space-project-singer-kak-channthy-soaring-voice-khmer-rock-revival

Sadly, the older you get, the more death you are exposed to. Still I enjoy the song.

If you would like to know more about classic Cambodian pop music, as well as the group Cambodian Space Project, you may also check out this CD from Rough Guide World Music: https://www.worldmusic.net/store/item/RGNET1319/ or check out my post on the California based Cambodia language band Dengue Fever (who predate the Cambodian Space Project) and the interesting history of post-independence Cambodian pop music here: https://peterhuston.blogspot.com/2018/06/day-two-of-music-challenge-dengue-fever.html

(If anyone is wondering, I have never been to Cambodia, but I think it would be interesting to try and learn a little bit of Cambodia --one of the few non-tonal languages in the region and of a different language family from most nearby languages  -- alas, I expect other obligations will keep me from doing so for some time.)

So here's the Cambodian Space Project. How can anyone not enjoy this? Really.

And there's a lot more where this came from if you care to look. There are a lot of things out there. A lot of things worth looking for and living for.