Artist: Nguyên Lê & Ngô Hồng Quang
Album: Hà Nội Duo
Genre: World Fusion
Label: ACT Music
Released: 2017
Quality: FLAC (tracks)
Tracklist:
- Cloud Chamber
- Five Senses
- Like Mountain Birds
- A Night with You, Gone
- The Graceful Seal
- Heaven's Gourd
- Chiec Khan Pieu
- Monkey Queen
- Beggar's Love Song
- Silently Grows the Rice
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- Personnel:
- Nguyên Lê - guitars
- Ngô Hồng Quang - Vietnamese fiddle, monocorde, lute, jew’s harp, vocals
- Paolo Fresu - trumpet, flugelhorn (1, 4, 5, 7)
- Mieko Miyazaki - koto (2, 4)
- Prabhu Edouard - tablas, kanjira, pocket shaker (2, 7)
Nguyên Lê is a maverick, a hyper-fluent guitarist with a penchant for mixing up genres. Born in Paris of Vietnamese descent, he’s regarded as a jazz musician, though his most celebrated albums pay tribute to 60s rock gods like Hendrix and Floyd. Here he teams up with a young traditionalist, Ngô Hong Quang, on fiddle and lute to portray “the soul of Vietnam” and its quickening evolution. There are jaunty folkish tunes, temple bells and ethereal melodies with titles like Heaven’s Ground, but nothing arrives without surprises. One moment you are among mountain clouds, then Lê unleashes a storm of widdly-diddly electric axe. Italian trumpeter Paolo Fresu adds elegant Milesesque licks to a remarkable fusion of ancient and modern.