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Saturday, October 11, 2014 Favoriting
Tri Minh's Quartet - New Directions in Vietnamese Music

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Vietnam's indie, experimental and improv music scene is still in its early days. Keyboardist and electronic musician Tri Minh is one of its driving forces. He's the mastermind of Vietnam's first international electronic / experimental music festival, Hanoi Sound Stuff. And he brings together traditional and modern instruments and motifs both as a sound-artist and bandleader. His innovative trad / modern hybrid quartet is on its first US tour thanks to the US State Dept's Center Stage program - which aims to build mutual understanding through cultural exhange. Tri Minh's Quartet brings its international goodwill mission to WFMU tonight!

Here’s more on Tri Minh and the group’s background, courtesy of ace world music publicity crew Rock Paper Scissors:

The twang of the zither against the overtone-laden bamboo mouth harp, hinting at tradition one moment, and the analog experiments of midcentury electronic music the next. Sweet jazz piano and hand drums, juxtaposing electronic and organic. These are the sounds of Hanoi, where open-ended experimentation is coming into its own in Vietnam’s capital city.

At the hub of this scene, contemporary sound artist Trí Minh, the Hanoi Conservatory-trained composer, jazz pianist, and all-around musical instigator, has created his own platform for creative work at home and abroad. As founder of the Hanoi Sound Stuff Festival, Trí Minh has worked with musicians from highly diverse backgrounds, collaborated with internationally respected DJs and electronic musicians like Robert Henke, Robin Scanner, and Dickson Dee, and played sets around the world.

In a program titled Sounds from Hanoi, Trí Minh’s Quartet uses improvisation—a vital, though differently expressed component of both Vietnamese traditional forms and jazz – to create a dialogue between instruments in ways that echo Hanoi’s experimental side, a side Trí Minh and his friends connect with the growing voice of civil society in Vietnam.

This Week's Playlist:

(* = new)

Khun Narin Electric Phin Band: Show Wong Khun Narin Favoriting / Khun Narin's Electric Phin Band / * (0:00:00 Pop-up)
Did I hear a quote of Uskadara early in the song?

Khana Phloenphit: Molamsing Waichap Chut 7 (Side B exc) Favoriting / Molamsing Waichap Chut 7 (0:09:53 Pop-up)

Soraphet Phinyo + Nongnut Duangchiwan: Num Na Khao Na Kluea Favoriting / Num Na Khao Na Kluea (0:17:59 Pop-up)

Dao Bandon: La Nong Pai Chat Rai Kan Favoriting / Chan Di Khi Foi (0:20:50 Pop-up)

The Impossibles: Sarika Ha Khu Favoriting / Raroeng Chon (0:23:57 Pop-up)

Kenny Wolleson and the Himalayas Marching Band: Bear Away Favoriting / Various Artists: Son of Rogues Gallery (0:27:56 Pop-up)
GIG: They're one of the five (or six) activist brass bands playing this Thursday's HONK NYC! / WFMU collaboration at WFMU's Monty Hall, 43 Montgomery St. here in Jersey City - just one stop on the PATH train from WTC to Exchange Place!

Madala Kunene: Sani Bonani Favoriting / Kon'ko Man / B&W (0:38:31 Pop-up)
GIG: Tonight, Carnegie Hall's Zankel Hall, 9 pm (with Phuzekhemisi), part of the Ubuntu Festival

Phuzekhemisi: Wesipko Favoriting / Colors of Africa / Gallo (0:42:40 Pop-up)

Puseletso Seema & Tau Ea Linare: He O Oe Oe! Favoriting / He O Oe Oe! / Globestyle (0:49:53 Pop-up)

Udokotela Shange Namajaha: Awungilobolele (Can You Pay Lobola for Me) Favoriting / Various Artists: The Indestructible Beat of Soweto / Shanachie (0:50:14 Pop-up)

Amaphisi: Vuk'uyoshela Favoriting / Various Artists: City Shoes, Rural Blues / Sterns (0:53:59 Pop-up)

Simpiwe Matole: Monaza Favoriting / Various Artists: Jazzin' & Jivin' / Melt 2000 (0:58:04 Pop-up)

Djessou Mory Kante: Nan Koura Favoriting / River Strings / Sterns / * (1:05:38 Pop-up)

Oumar Konate: Ayere Yere (Shake That Thing) Favoriting / Addoh / Clermont Music (1:10:34 Pop-up)
GIG: TONIGHT @ Baby's All Right, 146 Broadway, Brooklyn, Midnight

Noura Mint Seymali: Tikifite Favoriting / Tzehni / Glitter Beat / * (1:14:54 Pop-up)

Kiran Ahluwalia: Jhoom Favoriting / Sanata: Stillness / Kiran Music / * (1:18:40 Pop-up)

U Srinivas & Chingari: Bombay Makossa Favoriting / Bombay Makossa / Abstract Logix / * (1:24:49 Pop-up)
U Srinivas (who just passed away) collab w/ Ranujit Barot, Etienne Mbappe

Arnold Chiwalala Band: Bandubandu Favoriting / Wito Chizentele (1:30:18 Pop-up)
One of the late Hukwe Zawose's students at Bagamoyo Music School in Tanzania - but now lives in Finlan d and here he's playing the Finnish plucked dulcimer type instrument, kantele.

Värttinä: Vietavia - For the Taking Favoriting / Utu / Rockadillo Records (1:33:23 Pop-up)

Environmental Encroachment: Hashia Favoriting (1:41:55 Pop-up)
GIG: They're one of the five (or six) activist brass bands playing this Thursday's HONK NYC! / WFMU collaboration at WFMU's Monty Hall, 43 Montgomery St. here in Jersey City - just one stop on the PATH train from WTC to Exchange Place!

Freedom (Hourya): Abadane Favoriting / Various Artists: 1970's Algerian Folk and Pop / Sublime Frequencies / * (1:48:29 Pop-up)

Rachid & Fethi: Ana Ghrib Favoriting / Various Artists: 1970's Algerian Folk and Pop / Sublime Frequencies (1:52:23 Pop-up)

Hoba Hoba Spirit: Dark Bendir Army Favoriting / Marock'n Roll (1:57:41 Pop-up)
From Casablanca - our guests on this show next week!

Tri Minh's Quartet: Live on WFMU Favoriting / Songs: Dialogue (CD Track), the live performance includes Wading Ashore (Dan Tranh Solo), Dan Moi (mouth Harp solo), Hanoi New Landscape, Sound From Hanoi and Good Bye. (2:00:40 Pop-up)




Listener comments!

  6:04pm Chris:

Hi Rob, thanks for playing Khun Narin Electric Phin Band again. I sought them out after last week's show!
Avatar 6:04pm Dave B:

These guys rock... Really happy story on their discovery. I jus hope they make some money off the deal...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:11pm Rob W:

Good evening everyone, thanks for listening!
Avatar 6:22pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

- opener was fantastic ! ...
  6:55pm Tom P, Brooklyn:

Udokotela Shage Namajaha - great Zulu music - reminded me I have this album but misplaced it - need to find it.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:56pm Rob W:

Oh yes Tom, it's a golden oldie - better dig it up!
  7:01pm Tom P, Brooklyn:

Rob, I will! Listening to all these tracks - this musical style has a difficult to define hypnotic and inspiring effect.
Avatar 🌍 Swag For Life Member 7:24pm Bas NL:

Hi Rob! This 'Jhoom' track is fantastic!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:25pm Rob W:

Thanks Bas, glad you liked it!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:35pm maestroso:

Ooh, Varttina! Yes.
Avatar 7:36pm Jherweg:

I just made a Pledge to Rob's show!!!! I suggest you all do the same!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:36pm maestroso:

Oh, and Hi Rob! Busy prepping for a trip to Japan. Loving the show.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:44pm Rob W:

Thank you Jherweg! Bon voyage maestroso!
Avatar 8:22pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

- ! - what a lovely & interesting performance ! ; it must be something to actually be there w/ the tonalities of these instruments so beautifully played.
- Thx to Tri Minh's Quartet, Engineer, & yourself Rob !
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:27pm ! I X Key !:

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Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:28pm ! I X Key !:

! Here we are, here on the internet (o:
  8:36pm P-90:

@Trih Min & Rob W: Excellent, beautiful performance! Thank you.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:37pm ! I X Key !:

That was really really wonderful music to hear
Avatar 🌍 Swag For Life Member 8:55pm Bas NL:

Thanks Rob & Tri Minh's Quartet!
Avatar 🌍 Swag For Life Member 8:59pm Ken From Hyde Park:

Great show tonight. Have a good week, Rob!
Avatar 2:15pm Mdurek:

Played at the same fest as U Srinivas in Thane... he inspired me very deeply in just that one concert. Thanks for spinning him, he'll be missed
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