Dee Peyok is a speechwriter, event planner and former session singer who has dedicated seven years of her life to researching Cambodia's music. This is her first book.
Equal parts travelogue and social history, Peyok's evocation of a glamorous rock'n'roll Shangri-La, which was destroyed by the waves of genocide that killed off 90% of the country's musicians, is not only fascinating but deeply poignant -- Will Hodgkinson Within rock culture the idea of rebellion and resistance is largely gestural and symbolic. In Cambodia resistance was met with Year Zero and the killing fields. In such a chilling context this book is a work of heroic retrieval and restoration -- Rob Chapman [Dee Peyok's] book is a seeking - of Cambodia's music, and the resilient creativity of its people. Utterly brilliant -- Neal Brown