praCh, has been the prime storyteller.
In hip-hop and rap grooves and classical Cambodian flute, praCh's latest CD, "Dalama," is lyrical, hypnotic and funky. It is also tragic.
praCh unfurls a sweeping tale that starts in 1975, with the Khmer Rouge movement and a Cambodian holocaust that left more than 2 million dead from starvation and torture -"People buried alive," praCh sings, "to save money on bullets."
Like Long Beach rappers before him, legends such as Snoop Dogg and Warren G, anger and violence fuel praCh's lyrics, though his latest songs are nearly free of profanity.
By the end of "Dalama," a listener understands the reality for this population estimated at between 35,000 and 50,000 - the world's largest outside Cambodia.
* Nancy Wride - Los Angeles Times
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D A L A M A . . . " t h e l o s t c h a p t e r "
quote taken from media and press
" He brings it to the new generation,
and talk about reality, talk about society."
- FOX News -
" These songs are a step forward."
- CNN -
" He's awfully precise, this praCh...Dalama raised,
in one way or another, got Cambodia's moldering
history books-victims of a bury-the-past
mindset-back in the schools."
* Rich Kane- O.C.WEEKLY -
"He's a genius. To use his rap lyrics to tell the
stories of the immigrants...I don't know of
anyone else who's doing what he's doing,'
* Frank Stewart---MANOA
University of Hawaii Press
"praCh Ly is Long Beach's next Legend. The Cambodian rapper is
a leader and a visionary. By producing a bilingual album pack
with meaning and history. He electrified his homeland with
lyrics that relentless yet thoughtful.which reminds me of why
hip-hop was great in the first place."
* Mike Sonksen- 562 magazine -
" I have to admit? the brother has mad skills. From putting
lead to paper and drawing out sketches to spitting out lyrics.
Prach has an eye for detail and perfection.
There is method to his madness...I think this album:
( Dalama " the lost chapter.") is a testament to the evolution
of the individual whose heart beats in time with music
and whose flow is a fusion of experience and narrative genius."
* DemRaw- C-Hope -
* - for full article and story go to praCh's page and click archive
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D A L A M A . . .
" t h e lo s t c h a p t e r . "
- a l b u m t r a c k l i s t -
1. intro: invasion.
2. Stories. feat: Dozer.
3. skitts: " the YearZero and one."
4. Power,Territory, and Rice.
5. skitts: "the aftermath."
6. The Great EsCape !
7. interlude: pin peat's resurrection.
8. I just want you to understand !
9. De'BreeZZe. feat: Sparc
10. " Min-tom-ie-Da "
11. " Sox-si-Bie "
12. intermission: Rules...
13. RefleXtion.
14. Wise's that ?
15. Neutral (before the war) feat: Toeum
16. Tues. ( the two towers )
17. s.i.c.
18. S-21 (toul sleng)
19. Art of Fact.
20. out-tro: " peaCe "
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