Dengue Fever – review

Queen Elizabeth Hall, LondonThere is a predictably 60s theme to much of Ray Davies's Meltdown, so it is appropriate that the festival's main world-music offering should come from a band who are influenced by the psychedelic and surf-rock music scene that flourished briefly in Cambodia in the late 60s and early 70s, before being brutally stamped out by the Khmer Rouge. Dengue Fever are a six-piece band from Los Angeles, fronted by Cambodian singer Chhom Nimol, who set out to revive songs from tha...

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