SIGNATURE EDITION 1 / Nguyen Le
ACT (2010)
Jazz / Guitar Jazz / World
About Album
Nguyên Lê opens his Signature Edition with a kind of prelude: the previously unreleased track “Magic Constant” introduces the listener to his incomparable musical kingdom, full of very different landscapes. “I am the personified fusion of cultures,” once he said, and his compositions and interpretations certainly combine forms, styles and elements in a previously unknown, unheard way. There are pure classic adaptations (for instance on the traditional “Lo Rossinyol”) as well as abstract clusters of contemporary music; many pieces are defined by Vietnamese music traditions: By its - for Western people - unfamiliar harmonies, by the archaic sounds of the traditional one-string-instrument Dan Bau, and by the mystical, haunting voice of Huong Thanh, with whom Lê has made four albums for ACT.
Song List
- 1. Magic Constant - 06:21 (Lê, Nguyên)
- 2. Sangam - 05:23 (Edouard, Prabhu)
- 3. Lo Rossinyol - 04:26 (traditional)
- 4. Weaving & Awaiting - 05:58 (Lê, Nguyên)
- 5. Kokopanitsa - 04:56 (Lê, Nguyên)
- 6. Zafaran - 06:00 (Youssef, Dhafer / Lê, Nguyên)
- 7. Louxor Dance - 04:16 (Lê, Nguyên)
- 8. Totsu ! - 07:53 (Lê, Nguyên)
- 9. Snow on a Flower - 05:32 (Lê, Nguyên)
- 10. Cold Winter, Faraway Land - 05:54 (Lê, Nguyên)
- 11. Voodoo Child (slight return) - 06:42 (Hendrix, Jimi)
- 12. Sao Sen - 06:14 (Lê, Nguyên)
- 13. Dding Dek - 05:22 (Lê, Nguyên)
- 14. Encanto - 05:41 (Lê, Nguyên)
- 15. L'Arkha li jeya - 06:41 (Lê, Nguyên / Ziad, Karim / Houariyat, B'net)
- 16. Ifrikyia - 05:31 (Ziad, Karim / Lê, Nguyên)
- 17. Foow - 07:50 (Lê, Nguyên)
- 18. Dance of the Comet - 06:02 (Lê, Nguyên)
- 19. The Wind Blew It Away - 07:31 (traditional)
- 20. The Black Horse - 04:09 (traditional)
- 21. Lupi Pilu - 07:37 (Lê, Nguyên)
- 22. Miss One - 07:37 (Borker, Dominique)
- 23. Miracles - 08:05 (Lê, Nguyên)
- 24. U Song - 06:00 (Lê, Nguyên)
Comments
ACT Signature Edition - essential essence: 24 tunes, about 120 minutes of music - personally selected by the artist.
