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Ho!
Roady music from vietnam 2000
TRIKONT US-0249
CD in Digipak with detailed Booklet
Folkroots, Sabah Habas Mustapha
In Vietnam the clash of civilisations has produced some curiously colourful hybrids. When traditional Asian music mixes with the sounds of the West, Vietpop emerges in a wild variety of styles. This compilation gathers together music from the streets of Saigon in its many forms, including buskers with electric guitars, megaphones and portable amps as well as some idiosyncratic adaptations of country & western. There are reminders of the colonial past with some extraordinary brass band music. Nothing is stranger than reality! "The best record I've heard in the last year!" Mike Gavin, Ray's Jazz Shop, London "One of the best new releases!"
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Press Reviews:
Ho!: The Wire
Where transglobal crosspollinations used to be a side product of conquests and crusades, religious pilgrimages and silk and spice trading, aggressive US foreign policy has industrialised the process, restricting it to one-way exchanges at PX stores. American wars took rock´n´cola culture into deepest Indochina, but along with the terror, some good came out of it. [read more]
Ho!: Mike Gavin - DJ - London
"This is the best record I've heard all last year." [read more]
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