Cambodian Adventure Sleepwalking Through The Mekong Featuring Internationally Acclaimed Dengue Fever Will Be Released Tomorrow

The Dengue Fever documentary film Sleepwalking Through the Mekong (M80 Music), will be released on April 14, 2009 as two-disc set via Nail Distribution  and online via IODA. The package features a DVD and a CD soundtrack of the film. Sleepwalking Through the Mekong chronicles the journey taken by Los Angeles based Khmer rock band Dengue Fever to lead singer Chhom Nimol’s native Cambodia during the 2005 Water Festival.

The band’s performances there marked the first time a Western band had performed classic 1960s and ’70s Cambodian rock ‘n’ roll in the country where it was created and nearly erased from existence by the brutal Pol Pot regime. More than a rockumentary, the film serves up a portrait of modern Cambodia as the band tours through Phnom Penh and beyond, crossing a great cultural chasm with the same spirit of Cambodia’s original rock pioneers.

The film has screened at a diverse number of festivals and museums including The Margaret Mead Film and Video Festival, The Hawaiian International Film Festival, Roskilde Festival, The Istanbul Museum of Fine Art and the Museum of Fine Art in Boston.

DVD bonus material includes a biography of the band Dengue Fever, live performance segments, comments from director John Pirozzi, segments on the Cambodian Water Festival, the traditional Cambodian Coconut Dance and Cambodia’s Master Musicians.

The accompanying CD soundtrack includes classic tracks from Cambodian artists Ros Serey Sothea, Sinn Sisamouth and Meas Samoun, as well as original material created by Cambodian master musicians Tep Mary and Kong Nai with Dengue Fever, and previously unreleased Dengue Fever instrumental tracks "March of The Balloon Animals" and "Phnom Chisor Serenade".

Buy the DVD and CD:

• In North America: Sleepwalking Through the Mekong