Hanoi Masters - War is a Wound, Peace is a Scar
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“Hanoi Masters: War is a Wound, Peace is a Scar” is a haunting audio document recorded in the summer of 2014 by Grammy-award winning producer Ian Brennan (Tinariwen, Malawi Mouse Boys, The Good Ones). The sepia-tinged songs are sung and played live and direct by elderly Vietnamese musicians using half-forgotten traditional instruments. These musicians all have deep personal connections to the upheavals of the Vietnam War and the album’s mesmerizing mood navigates the blurred line between raw beauty and sadness.
40 years after the end of the Vietnam War, a war these Hanoi musicians still call the “American War”, the wounds and scars of that era are ever-present. “Hanoi Masters” is an album of cautious healing and an unforgettable meditation on conflict, resistance, collective memory, and the longing for what has been lost.
In the liner notes of the album, producer Ian Brennan discusses the experience of making “Hanoi Masters”:
We had gone to Hanoi to record veterans from their side. Some were music masters, one of whom had joined the army at age thirteen and whose job it wasto sing to the troops to boost morale and provide solace. Another was a former AK-47 issued village leader who had not sung in over forty years, and proved to be the most dead-on vocally. She did not hide or adorn, but quietly revealed muted emotions that a microphone often can detect more easily than face-to-face interaction. Then, immediately afterwards, she withdrew back into a stoic shell.
The streets of Hanoi are an almost direct inversion of western cities, with hordes of scooters displacing and grossly outnumbering cars. The chaotic ballet of riders, sometimes four or five to a single motorcycle, is offset by the reserve of theriders. Many are masked to ward off pollution and only once was there witnessed even the slightest reaction to all the incessant horns and traffic violations by others.
Those who dismiss Asian music as without an edge, may have simply overlooked the intricacy. With a whammy-bar technology that dates back to the 9th century, it is fair to say that Vietnamese traditions had a bit of a head start over the headbangers of the 1980’s.
A startling revelation was a plucked instrument (the K’ni) that is clasped between the teeth as the local dialectic language is spoken through thesingle string. What sounds like an extraterrestrial instrumental to the uninitiated actually contains coded, poetic lyrics. Again, futurist innovators like Theremin, clearly arrived alittle later to the party than commonly claimed.
Let it suffice to say that these artists are a far cry from the lip-synchingkaraoke show that we saw on the local cable, with groups of teenagerscavorting on a soundstage and mouthing the words to K-pop songs---air-Karaoke, if you will---that managed to render something pre-fab even less real.
These elders carry a haunting, but muted sadness that seems only fully revealed through the music that they valiantly keep alive in the face of industrialization, waning regard and interest, and the rapid homogenization and “progress” overtaking their homeland.
---Ian Brennan, producer/engineer “Hanoi Masters”
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Hanoi Masters - War is a Wound, Peace is a Scar (teaser)
Order the album:
“Hanoi Masters: War is a Wound, Peace is a Scar” is a haunting audio document recorded in the summer of 2014 by Grammy-award winning producer Ian Brennan (Tinariwen, Malawi Mouse Boys, The Good Ones). The sepia-tinged songs are sung and played live and direct by elderly Vietnamese musicians using half-forgotten traditional instruments. These musicians all have deep personal connections to the upheavals of the Vietnam War and the album’s mesmerizing mood navigates the blurred line between raw beauty and sadness.
40 years after the end of the Vietnam War, a war these Hanoi musicians still call the “American War”, the wounds and scars of that era are ever-present. “Hanoi Masters” is an album of cautious healing and an unforgettable meditation on conflict, resistance, collective memory, and the longing for what has been lost.
In the liner notes of the album, producer Ian Brennan discusses the experience of making “Hanoi Masters”:
We had gone to Hanoi to record veterans from their side. Some were music masters, one of whom had joined the army at age thirteen and whose job it wasto sing to the troops to boost morale and provide solace. Another was a former AK-47 issued village leader who had not sung in over forty years, and proved to be the most dead-on vocally. She did not hide or adorn, but quietly revealed muted emotions that a microphone often can detect more easily than face-to-face interaction. Then, immediately afterwards, she withdrew back into a stoic shell.
The streets of Hanoi are an almost direct inversion of western cities, with hordes of scooters displacing and grossly outnumbering cars. The chaotic ballet of riders, sometimes four or five to a single motorcycle, is offset by the reserve of theriders. Many are masked to ward off pollution and only once was there witnessed even the slightest reaction to all the incessant horns and traffic violations by others.
Those who dismiss Asian music as without an edge, may have simply overlooked the intricacy. With a whammy-bar technology that dates back to the 9th century, it is fair to say that Vietnamese traditions had a bit of a head start over the headbangers of the 1980’s.
A startling revelation was a plucked instrument (the K’ni) that is clasped between the teeth as the local dialectic language is spoken through thesingle string. What sounds like an extraterrestrial instrumental to the uninitiated actually contains coded, poetic lyrics. Again, futurist innovators like Theremin, clearly arrived alittle later to the party than commonly claimed.
Let it suffice to say that these artists are a far cry from the lip-synchingkaraoke show that we saw on the local cable, with groups of teenagerscavorting on a soundstage and mouthing the words to K-pop songs---air-Karaoke, if you will---that managed to render something pre-fab even less real.
These elders carry a haunting, but muted sadness that seems only fully revealed through the music that they valiantly keep alive in the face of industrialization, waning regard and interest, and the rapid homogenization and “progress” overtaking their homeland.
---Ian Brennan, producer/engineer “Hanoi Masters”
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On the 25th anniversary of the 'Fall of Saigon' in 2000, Vietnamese-American writer Andrew Lam revisited the land of his birth and wrote this video essay. Produced for STAR TV Focus Asia by Jim Laurie and Stephanie Scawen, Camera: Sarni Ocampo.
Many of Lam's observations still ring true today. In the film Lam says he is bothered by a collective amnesia in Vietnam. People choose to forget the past. Vietnam's history is that of betrayal he writes, and the ultimate betrayal is that of memory.
Andrew Lam, who lives in California, is the author of Perfume Dreams: reflections of the Vietnamese Diaspora (2005) among other distinguished written works. for more on this film e-mail jim@earthfactor.org. Andrew Lam has also posted this video on his YOUTUBE channel see
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Tết (aka Lunar New Year holiday of Vietnamese people) is the most miracle time of the year just like how Christmas is the thought of Western. This year we take a double trip to visit our relatives and grandparents in Ha Tinh Province and Hai Phong City, both of which are located in the North. This is the first time ever I've learnt how to make a Chưng Cake - throughout my life so far I eat it, not cook ever. Feel great about that haha :))
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Yến Lê Espiritu on Displacement in Vietnamese and Syrian Refugee Art
Feminist Refugee Epistemology: Reading Displacement in Vietnamese and Syrian Refugee Art – Joining the fields of transnational feminist studies with critical refugee studies, this talk introduces the concept feminist refugee epistemology (FRE) to re-conceptualize war-based displacement as not only about social disorder and interruption but also about social reproduction and innovation. FRE does more than critique Western media representation of refugees; it underlines the refugees' rich and complicated lives, the ways in which they enact their hopes, beliefs, and politics, even when they live militarized lives.
Yến Lê Espiritu is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, San Diego.
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Album: Hanoi Masters: War is a Wound, Peace is a Scar
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“Hanoi Masters: War is a Wound, Peace is a Scar” is a haunting audio document recorded in the summer of 2014 by Grammy-award winning producer Ian Brennan (Tinariwen, Malawi Mouse Boys, The Good Ones). The sepia-tinged songs are sung and played live and direct by elderly Vietnamese musicians using half-forgotten traditional instruments. These musicians all have deep personal connections to the upheavals of the Vietnam War and the album’s mesmerizing mood navigates the blurred line between raw beauty and sadness.
40 years after the end of the Vietnam War, a war these Hanoi musicians still call the “American War”, the wounds and scars of that era are ever-present. “Hanoi Masters” is an album of cautious healing and an unforgettable meditation on conflict, resistance, collective memory, and the longing for what has been lost.
In the liner notes of the album, producer Ian Brennan discusses the experience of making “Hanoi Masters”:
We had gone to Hanoi to record veterans from their side. Some were music masters, one of whom had joined the army at age thirteen and whose job it wasto sing to the troops to boost morale and provide solace. Another was a former AK-47 issued village leader who had not sung in over forty years, and proved to be the most dead-on vocally. She did not hide or adorn, but quietly revealed muted emotions that a microphone often can detect more easily than face-to-face interaction. Then, immediately afterwards, she withdrew back into a stoic shell.
The streets of Hanoi are an almost direct inversion of western cities, with hordes of scooters displacing and grossly outnumbering cars. The chaotic ballet of riders, sometimes four or five to a single motorcycle, is offset by the reserve of theriders. Many are masked to ward off pollution and only once was there witnessed even the slightest reaction to all the incessant horns and traffic violations by others.
Those who dismiss Asian music as without an edge, may have simply overlooked the intricacy. With a whammy-bar technology that dates back to the 9th century, it is fair to say that Vietnamese traditions had a bit of a head start over the headbangers of the 1980’s.
A startling revelation was a plucked instrument (the K’ni) that is clasped between the teeth as the local dialectic language is spoken through thesingle string. What sounds like an extraterrestrial instrumental to the uninitiated actually contains coded, poetic lyrics. Again, futurist innovators like Theremin, clearly arrived alittle later to the party than commonly claimed.
Let it suffice to say that these artists are a far cry from the lip-synchingkaraoke show that we saw on the local cable, with groups of teenagerscavorting on a soundstage and mouthing the words to K-pop songs---air-Karaoke, if you will---that managed to render something pre-fab even less real.
These elders carry a haunting, but muted sadness that seems only fully revealed through the music that they valiantly keep alive in the face of industrialization, waning regard and interest, and the rapid homogenization and “progress” overtaking their homeland.
---Ian Brennan, producer/engineer “Hanoi Masters”
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Phung Thi Tiem was a factory worker who survived the Christmas Bombing of Hanoi in 1972. She describes the bombs exploding just as she and her family entered the shelter and knocking her unconscious. Ms. Tiem then tells of leaving the shelter with her family to aid in the rescue efforts. Because houses had collapsed atop the bomb shelters there were many people trapped. She and others worked for 5 or 6 days just trying to get to those people. She recalls her most painful memory of the event: the sight of an entire family of seven dead among the ruins of their flattened house.
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