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Kim Sinh
Music from Vietnam 4: The Artistry of Kim Sinh
$17.99

The guitar work of Kim Sinh has been the stuff of legend for a decade or more, so it is a great pleasure to see this artist presented in a full CD's worth of excllently recorded material. His unique instrument (specially prepared to make full use of Vietnamese scales in folk music) offers a look at how the world's artist's adapt an instrument to their own ends and their culture's music. he also sings, plays the hawaiian style guitar, and on a few tracks is accompanied by percussion and violin. Completely unique!

Listen:
Lieu diong
laru Thiay
Vong Co

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The record label says:
Kim Sinh – who in the world is that? After having participated more than ten years ago in a collection CD from Caprice with music from Vietnam, he has become something of a cult figure among curious American rock and jazz guitarists.

Even though he has been blind since birth and is over seventy years old, his music continues to win over new listeners and create interest in these exciting Vietnamese music cultures. The music that he and his pupil and son, Kim Thang, play actually has it origins in a special form of theater in Vietnam called cai luong. It was created in the 1920s as a reaction against older forms, and contained elements derived from Western music and jazz.

Kim Sinh and his son play on reconstructed Western guitars, but of course also on several different traditional Vietnamese instruments. The music is in part improvised and is based on traditional forms that include suspense, drama and lyrical beauty. This is a new and inspirational sound world all its own!