The Music of Cambodia, Volume 3: Solo Instrumental Music
Yeum Sang is considered the finest wind virtuoso in Cambodia  today. He plays no fewer than five instruments on this recording: two  traditional Khmer reeds, two different Khmer oboes, including the nearly  extinctsralai thom, and the Khmer flute.Prach Chhuon appears onThe Music of Cambodia, Volume 3as both singer and player of the  Khmer lute. He is the most popular folk singer in the country; his style of  song, involving satirical, often improvised lyrics about daily life and  current events, is distant cousin to the medieval troubadour and to the  folk singers of the American West.Sok Duch and Yon Khien are fiddlers  who appear with the royal pinpeat and mahori ensembles of the royal court  on the second volume of this series; both are respected soloists.Khan  Heuan is the last surviving virtuoso of thekse diev, a strangely  built string instrument that uses the player's chest as a resonator. With  its almost percussive sound, thekse dievprovides some of this  volume's most striking moments.