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The Khmer Fusion Project: The Khmer Fusion Project

by Budd Kopman
October 10, 2005

The Khmer Fusion Project is a group of four very young Californian musicians who decided, in a karmic way, to pack up and move to Cambodia, at first to learn traditional instruments and music and record them for archival purposes. After being there a while and learning from various masters, they decided to create a fusion of jazz and Cambodian music. With the help of the Silapak Khmer Amatak, an organization created in 1998 by Arn Chorn-Pond to preserve and ...