Sleepwalking Through the Mekong

Denge Fever is a LA based rock group with a female Cambodian lead singer. They are also followers of a peculiar Cambodian rock style that flourished in the 1960s and early 1970s that fused Cambodian music and lyrics with surf music from Southern California. Almost on a whim, Denge Fever decided to head on over to Cambodia and hopefully do a few performances. The tour wasn't very well organized, but as word spread, more music venues opened up and everyone had a good time.

A documentary about this most unusual rock tour in Cambodia is now making the rounds, and is now showing here in San Francisco at the Red Vic Movie house on Haight Street. They played yesterday at the Outlands music extravaganze in Golden Gate Park and have done a few other local gigs.