NEW VIDEO RELEASE BY KROM: "She's 7 Years Old (her body sold...) - a Krom song." Mark Coles, award winning broadcaster and host of the radio show "The Shed" has described this song as "harrowing, a very disturbing powerful song." Songwriter Christopher Minko was motivated to write the song after reading a story in the English language "Phnom Penh Post" that described the rescue of a 7-year-old girl who had been sold into sexual slavery by sex traders on the Thai / Cambodia border. Christopher Minko describes the photo accompanying the article that showed the girl chained to a bed, as "an image of a horrendous mix of fear and utter bewilderment shown within the eyes of the enslaved young girl".
"She's 7 Years Old" touches on the oft avoided dark issue of pedophilia in Southeast Asia and in the words of Christopher Minko "the song is meant to make the listener feel uncomfortable, very uncomfortable..."
"She's 7 Years Old" is of the songs to be featured on Krom's forthcoming second album "NEON DARK."
Music/Lyrics /Vocals and Guitar(s): Christopher Minko
Vocals: Sophea Chamroeun and Sopheak Chamroeun
Slide Guitar: Jimmi Baeck
Producer: Sarin Chhuon
Cover Artwork: Anya Minko
Recorded at the Krom Studio: Phnom Penh
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJcRp-CKCSg
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