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v/a - hanoi masters: war is a wound peace is a scar - glitterbeat - vinyl

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Genre: World - Misc

1. Pham Mong Hai - For The Fallen
2. Pham Mong Hai - Help Us In This Life (Hat Van)
3. Nguyen Thi Lan - Road To Home (Ve Que)
4. Quoc Hung - The Wind Blows It Away
5. Vo Tuan Minh - I Long To Return To My Hometown (Que Me)
6. Xuan Hoach - Heroine Song (Hat Hau Co Bo)
7. Xuan Hoach - Doomed Love (Xam Hue Tinh)
8. Nguyen Thi Lan - The Rice Drum (Trong Com)
9. Xuan Hoach - Gratitude (Xam Thap An)
10. Quoc Hung - Please Wait For Me
11. Pham Mong Hai - Taking Your Spirit To The Next World (Hat Lo Huong)

This album is a haunting audio document recorded in the summer of 2014 by Grammy-award winning producer Ian Brennan (Tinariwen, Malawi Mouse Boys,The Good Ones).

The sepia-tinged songs are sung and played live and direct by elderly Vietnamese musicians using half-forgotten traditional instruments. These musicians all have deep personal connections to the upheavals of the Vietnam War and the album’s mesmerizing mood navigates the blurred line between raw beauty and sadness. 40 years after the end of the Vietnam War, a war these Hanoi musicians still call the “American War”, the wounds and scars of that era are ever-present. "Hanoi Masters" is also the first volume of our new series: Hidden Musics. Each Hidden Musics release will feature un-mediated “field” recordings of lesser-known global music traditions.