Dengue Fever

I am an avid listener of NPR as most of my good friends know....and last night I heard about this new band, Dengue Fever featured on Fresh Air. The story of how the band was created is fascinating!
During the Vietnam war, U.S. popular music filled the air-waves all over the region, which inspired Cambodian pop musicians to re-create pop Cambodian style~
Recently, while traveling through Cambodia, two American guys fell in love with 60's era-Cambodian pop music and have brought it back to the U.S.

Quoting NPR, " Zac and Ethan Holzman — a guitar-playing singer-songwriter and a keyboardist, respectively — discovered that vintage Cambodian pop and decided to create a band inspired by the music. They found a Cambodian singer with a beautiful voice who had recently moved to L.A. and formed a group they called Dengue Fever.The band's catchy, often dark instrumentations — along with singer Chhom Nimol's Khmer-language soprano vocals — are a compelling mix.

Dengue Fever's first record was mostly covers of Cambodian pop. Their new CD, Venus on Earth, is an all-original album."