Khmer Traditional Music

Khmer traditional music is the classical and folk music of Cambodia's Khmer people, centred on the pinpeat ensemble of xylophones (roneat), gong circles (kong), oboe (sralai), drums and cymbals that accompanies royal dance, shadow theatre and Buddhist ceremony. Its repertory is among the oldest continuous art musics in Southeast Asia, its instruments depicted on the walls of Angkor. Suppressed during the Khmer Rouge years, when most master musicians perished, it was rebuilt by survivors in Cambodia and the refugee diaspora and documented on recordings such as the 1991 Real World album "Homrong".