Wonderful recording of hat van, the traditional theatre that combines trance singing, music and dancing. The music is punctuated with a range of rhythms and pauses. The main instrument is the moon shaped lute, the dan nguyet, with occasional dan tranh (zither) with a constantly shuffling beat and percussion accompaniment of phach (bamboo or wood) xeng (clappers) and chieng (gong). There is glorious male and female singing throughout the five tracks in what is some of the most evocative music in Vietnam.
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