Hanoi, Vietnam
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In 2001 I traveled to Hanoi from Singapore for a single holiday weekend. In that time I found, befriended, paid and recorded two musicians who played traditional Vietnamese music there in a small local studio. Later that year I mixed some of the recordings into a song for the album I was working on for BMG Singapore. It eventually became the single.
The song, which is titled “Head Massage” on the CD, but probably not in Vietnamese, features Nguyen Thi Hong Lan on the Dan Bau (Monochord) and Le Thi Van Mai on the Dan Tranh (16 Strings)