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
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