First of all, it must be said that from the name to the poster and music of Vu Thang Loi's live show, it all brings the audience back to distant memories. There are clusters of sweet star fruit that we climb to pick every day, there is the childhood river with "cool summer afternoons", there is "the window frames of two houses at the end of the street", there is "the afternoon forest with the rustling sound of young leaves calling the wind", there is the affectionate Vi Giam verse of the people of Nghe An...
Vu Thang Loi sings "Still Fragrance" on a visual art background. Photo: Hai Ba
In particular, the Lam River – the symbol of Nghe An, the hometown of Vu Thang Loi, also became the river that carried emotions throughout the program. Up to 9 out of 22 songs in the program were associated with the title of the river or had the image of the hometown river.
In the beginning, when leading the program, MC Le Anh also had to exclaim, there has never been a music live show where the audience can enjoy as many songs about the river as "Homeland" by Vu Thang Loi. From the main singer to the guest singers Anh Tho, Bui Le Man, Nguyen Ha, all sang songs associated with the river stretching from North to South: "Khuc hat song que", "Dong song que anh, dong song que em", "Hon song", "Tim em cau vi song Lam", "Neo dau ber que", "Anh o dau song em cuoi song", "Hue thuong", "Tinh dat doi mien Dong", "Len ngan"... This is also an endless inspiration for Music Director Hong Kien and General Director Cao Trung Hieu to freely create on the river of music and art.
Vu Thang Loi is sometimes gentle, warm, and affectionate... but also sometimes strong, surging, and screaming with fire... Photo: Hai Ba
Choosing 22 songs, coinciding with December 22, the Vietnam People's Army Day, to sing, Vu Thang Loi successfully spread the image of a "singing soldier". It is even more meaningful when this is also a gift he gives to his hometown Nghe An and his comrades. Therefore, in the 3 parts of the live show, Vu Thang Loi is sometimes gentle, warm, and sentimental... but also sometimes strong, surging, and screaming with fire... All of this paints a colorful, emotional, and delicate portrait of Vu Thang Loi's music.
At the beginning of the program, Vu Thang Loi sang 4 songs at once: "Homeland", "Dieu khong the mat", "Rung chieu", "Huong tham"... behind a silk curtain, on the silk curtain was a visual effect, creating a feeling of reality, of a dream. This method made the audience feel both strange and lost in the world of memories. Vu Thang Loi's simple, heartfelt singing style... brought the audience closer to their memories.
The stage was set up in a minimalist style by director Cao Trung Hieu and his crew. Photo: Hai Ba.
And the multidimensional music space, stretching from the North, through the Central to the South. Vu Thang Loi sings about his father - a soldier who instilled the spirit of a soldier and passed on his love for his homeland to his children with the song "Doi Chan Bare" by author Y Phon Ksor, full of romance and epic. In another music space, Vu Thang Loi sings a cappella "Tim em cau vi song Lam" with the sound of a guitar, making listeners overwhelmed with emotion...
Among the 22 songs, there are 2 new works performed by Vu Thang Loi with new arrangements by musician Hong Kien, which are "Hon song" by musician Le An Tuyen and "Ai cung co ngay xua" by musician Phan Manh Quynh. Vu Thang Loi confided that in the music stage, he always wants to introduce new works, new authors to encourage them to share the same enthusiasm to contribute and develop art, enriching the treasure of Vietnamese music, especially the female musician who is also a daughter of Nghe An.
Vu Thang Loi sings acoustically with a guitar. Photo: Hai Ba.
In part 3 of the live show, Vu Thang Loi - the singing soldier brought the audience into a heroic revolutionary music space - something that any audience who loves Vu Thang Loi's singing would expect. Vu Thang Loi was sometimes sweet, passionate, and sentimental in "Mother's Heart", sometimes heroic and proud in "On the top of Truong Son we sing".
An interesting thing is that on the stage of "Homeland", Anh Tho stepped up to sing and was so nervous that she forgot the lyrics. She had to quickly apologize to the audience right after finishing singing "Country River Song" and confessed that she was "confused" like her own live show. Singer Anh Tho also confided that her childhood memories are also associated with her hometown river, a branch of the Ma River. On this river, on hot summer afternoons, she and her friends led buffaloes to cool off in the river.
Two female folk singers experienced moments of confusion on the stage of "Homeland". Photo: Hai Ba
Vu Thang Loi sings a duet with Bui Le Man and Anh Tho. Photo: Hai Ba.
Vu Thang Loi revealed that he once cooked rice with Bui Le Man.
As for Bui Le Man, after singing a duet with Vu Thang Loi "Anh o dau song, em cuoi song" (You are at the beginning of the river, I am at the end of the river), he was so confused that he didn't know what to say about his brother when the main character suggested saying a few words. Vu Thang Loi said that he and Bui Le Man were not only from the same hometown but also studied together from high school, to college and then to university at the Military University of Culture and Arts. During their student years, they shared a dormitory and literally cooked rice together. They understood each other so well that when they went on stage, their voices sang in harmony as if they had practiced well.
An interesting unknown in the live show "Homeland" by Vu Thang Loi is singer Nguyen Ha. This is also the voice that makes the production crew as well as the audience a bit "afraid", because mentioning the voices of singers Anh Tho or Bui Le Man will be easy to understand because of the harmony with Vu Thang Loi's musical path, but Nguyen Ha is different. And on the stage of "Homeland" by red music singer Vu Thang Loi, Nguyen Ha - the young music singer sang "Len Ngan" and "Thanh Pho Tre" for the first time.
Vu Thang Loi looks youthful when singing a duet with Nguyen Ha. Photo: Hai Ba
Choosing "Homeland of the Soldier" to close the program, Vu Thang Loi expressed his desire to contribute and his small contribution to Vietnam's revolutionary art.
"Doing art and especially when I am honored to be called an artist by the public, if I do not put pressure on myself, worry about creativity and innovation, I will forever stand still, even fall behind in the rapid development of entertainment art that is increasingly taking up space and time. That is why every year I always try to bring to the audience valuable musical products, honoring Vietnamese music and art," the male singer expressed.
Source: https://danviet.vn/vu-thang-loi-khien-anh-tho-bui-le-man-nguong-ngung-2023122310125401.htm
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