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About Me

Neung Phak (pronounced: NOONG PAHK) is the alter ego of the long-time Bay Area group Mono Pause, who in this incarnation, play a wide range of South East Asian music inspired by cassette tapes, LPs and radio broadcasts received on their travels. Since 2001, Neung Phak have performed and recorded inspired renditions of Thai and Laotian "Isan" country Molam, infectious Thai rock and pop, Vietnamese and Cambodian songs of years past and even North Korean political anthems. Armed with traditional and electric instruments and featuring singer Diana Hayes along with special guests, Neung Phak delivers a concoction of international sounds that trade the gloss and sheen of so-called World Music for the energy and unpredictability you might actually find if you were somewhere else! Visit www.neungphak.net for more information. ********************************************************* ********************************************************* PUSSER'S PIHN is an offshoot of the Neung Phak project that focuses on the Thai-Molam-psych-angle featuring members of Neung Phak and special guests...and as always, the swirling pihn playing of Brently Pusser *********************************** ***************** Neung Phak's full-length self-titled CD and their 7" single "Fucking USA" are available from Abduction records http://www.suncitygirls.com/abduction/neung_phak.php

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 4/25/2006
Band Website: neungphak.net
Band Members: Hayes*Gergis*Conheim*Pusser* Stamberger*Harwood*Allbee*Hitman
Influences: Thai and Lao folk and pop/molam, morlam, morlum, mor lam, lam sing and rock, Shadow music, Khmer Rom Vong, Surin kantrum rock, pop, comedy and Lam-Leo tunes, Thai comedy theater, classic lukthung, Sundanese, Dangdut, dramatic segue musics of Vietnam, North Korea and beyond. Radio broadcasts (all waves), street-hawked VCDs, international satellite TV, braised duck, Asian bar bands, lost tapes and records........ETC
Sounds Like: Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, North Korea, Mono Pause, Indonesia, Burma, ETC

Record Label: Abduction
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

New Porest / Mono Pause vids on youtube

New, unseen Porest videos have surfaced on youtube. 2 videos from the "Tourrorists" album and a2007 "rock video" for a Porest "Instrumental Hit" you've never heard. Other mercy uploads include rare Mo...
Posted by Neung Phak on Thu, 17 Jan 2008 01:26:00 PST

Club Internationale / San Francisco

Official. Mark Gergis is now resident DJ on the 2nd Thursday of every month at the KNOCKOUT in SF for the all-new CLUB INTERNATIONALE (previously known as International Hits). Which means that as long...
Posted by Neung Phak on Tue, 08 Jan 2008 09:51:00 PST

Neung Phak Channel 2

Any network wants to acquire more channels.Due to overflow on channel 1, serving you since 2006, Neung Phak has just acquired channel 2 on your dial. Be there this season. We're why you're what's on w...
Posted by Neung Phak on Mon, 30 Apr 2007 02:22:00 PST

Charles Gocher Immortal

With warm, weird well wishes for the other side, Charlie.Thanks for the inspiration, the friendship, the compositions,the films, the writings...and the LEGACY!!
Posted by Neung Phak on Wed, 21 Feb 2007 02:37:00 PST

"SUMATRAN FOLK CINEMA" Sublime Frequencies Film * Bay Area Premiere 7/14/06

"SUMATRAN FOLK CINEMA" Bay Area Premiere/Sublime Frequencies Film night 7/14/06SUMATRAN FOLK CINEMA - A film by Mark Gergis and Alan Bishop -will make its Bay Area debut at ATA (Artist Television Acce...
Posted by Neung Phak on Tue, 27 Jun 2006 10:44:00 PST

the Neung Phak channel-watch Thai/Lao/Khmer and other videos here

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Posted by Neung Phak on Fri, 23 Jun 2006 12:22:00 PST

Neung Phak Interview.....

http://www.thefanzine.com/sections.php?s=music&id=15&a=artic lesInterview by Ben Bush for fanzine.com August, 2005MONO PAUSE/NEUNG PHAK/WHITE RING/PUSSERS PIHNEach night of Mono Pauses cross-country to...
Posted by Neung Phak on Wed, 26 Apr 2006 04:03:00 PST