Artist Ngo Hong Quang introduces the album Rang Dong - Photo: HO LAM
On the afternoon of April 14, in Ho Chi Minh City, the launch of the Rang Dong vinyl album took place. by artist Ngo Hong Quang. This is the 8th album he has released to the public.
When Indigenous Culture Meets Contemporary Music
The album Rang Dong includes 8 works, expressing moments of indigenous musical culture throughout the East through the Northwest and extending to the South Central Coast region.
Almost every work has the distinct colors of each ethnic minority group in Vietnam with the music of the Tay, Nung, Pa Di, Xa, Hmong, and Cham people.
Like the field trips to find creative materials in previous musical works, this time, Rang Dong by Ngo Hong Quang records his own unique emotions after many journeys to forests and mountains.
He listened to every story, every musical instrument, every lullaby, and interacted with simple people in small houses in villages, and then Hong Quang chose to preserve them with his own love and musical expression.
For example, the work " Tieng luong tin nguoi phuong xa" is a typical folk song of the Tay people. Ngo Hong Quang combined it with contemporary music space through international percussion, exploiting traditional musical materials.
He spent half a year recording in Vietnam and France and all the mixing, mastering and post-production were done in France. Including the time spent on field trips, it took him more than a year to "conceive" the album Rang Dong .
Artist Ngo Hong Quang plays the Jew's harp, a unique musical instrument of the Mong people, at a press conference - Video: HO LAM
Ngo Hong Quang realized that the music genre about indigenous culture is quite new, so he has a desire to spread it to more people.
"Honestly, I feel like this music is fading away. When I come back and perform these songs for the locals, they cry. That motivates me to continue creating," Hong Quang confided.
And according to him, to blend the colors of ethnic minority culture and contemporary music together, it is necessary to explore and engage with the indigenous community to find the most authentic creative materials.
'Dawn' is the intense desire to live of the indigenous people
To widely spread Rang Dong , he plans to print 200 vinyl copies. Then, print about 2000 CD copies and spread the works on the digital music environment.
He told Tuoi Tre Online that combining local music with beatbox is also a way to spread it to more young audiences. And he did that in this album.
Album Dawn - Photo: HO LAM
The artists participating in the album include 4 artists from India, Japan, France, the Netherlands... and 5 Vietnamese artists.
Hong Quang said Rang Dong is both the name of a new composition in the album and an image full of ideas about a new day.
These are new sources of positive energy or dreams of reaching upward, a strong desire for vitality to overcome all difficulties and hardships of the indigenous people in the rugged mountainous areas.
"I really like the word 'Dawn' because I once saw the sun rising next to Cham temples. And I wanted to put that image into my work."
The work Rang Dong in the album is a combination of the erhu, flute, bamboo flute, zither, Japanese zither, and Indian percussion.
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