Sokun Phan
a stilted house over the Tonle Sap, Cambodia
Sokun is a 24-year-old dishwasher at a small riverside diner in Cambodia. His day starts long before sunrise, hauling water and lighting the stove in his stilted home above the Tonle Sap. Once, he walked 300 miles to attend a stranger's funeral, a journey that deepened his obsession with the small, inevitable changes of life—like the way rust spreads on metal.
About
Obsession
The subtle variances in rust on metal
Voice
Lapping water on boat hulls
Genre
Post-industrial folk with ambient undertones
Instrumentation
Bamboo xylophones, water drips, metal scrapes, traditional khene
Vocal Style
Hum of distant chants carried on water
Production Style
Recorded in a stilt house overlooking Tonle Sap using natural acoustics and objects around him
Influences
His stilt house's rhythm on water; the funeral journey; rusting kitchenware
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