Hà N?i Duo

Ngô, H?ng Quang; Fresu, Paolo; Miyazaki, Mieko; Le, Nguyen; Edouard, Prabhu

Nguyen Le’s new album features a new collaboration- Ha Noi Duo with Ngo Hong Quang. At the heart of this collaboration is the musicians’ upbringing. Both are Vietnamese musicians whose upbringing and musical education followed different paths, but whose career shares common goals: to bring together the roots and the future of Vietnamese music. “Vietnam as a country is evolving so fast and so brilliantly, its population is full of so much youthful vigour, curiosity, and a deep hunger to learn everything possible from the West. But at the same time, many people feel a vital need never to forget the past.” (Nguyen Le) While his previous records focus on re-written traditional Vietnamese songs, this new release is full of personal original compositions that are still written in such a way that explores his musical heritage. He writes: “Like threads of silk, cultures from yesterday and today weave a complex and diverse beauty. That complexity and diversity are part of the essence of the country of Vietnam, with its millennial roots, its tormented past and future full of hope…”

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