Finest Artist Nominees: Hồ Trâm Anh
HỒ TRÂM ANH
Year of birth: 1994
Field: Music
About the artists: Hồ Trâm Anh is a Hanoi-based independent singer-songwriter, pianist, and composer with various projects under her belt. Her compositions feature distinct melodies on the background of ever-evolving chords, and a style of mixing influenced by spatial music as well as her background in classical piano. Since 2015, Trâm Anh has been active under her other alias – MonA and Anaiis, with Anaiis exploring an experimental approach with dark ambient, drone, electronic sounds, field recordings and similar mediums. In 2019, Hồ Trâm Anh released her first EP titled Low. Apart from her solo work, Trâm Anh recently collaborates with experimental music artists. In particular, she and sound artist Nhung Nguyễn (Sound Awakener) perform together as Oblivia. Trâm Anh has worked on several pieces for James Armstrong’s independent label Rusted Tone Recording, notably the album “These Cyan Fantasies” – in collaboration with Sound Awakener and Gallery Six, singles “Anomaly” and “Into the White Walls” – in collaboration with Gallery Six, Sound Awakener and James Armstrong (UK).
Remarkable activities/projects in 2020 – 2022: In 2022, Trâm Anh released her debut album “The Poetry of Streetlights”. With this album, Trâm Anh returns to what’s dear to her heart, employing shoegaze, electronic music and ambient sounds that are evocative in terms of space, against the backdrop of a series of compositions diverse in structure. Working with her prolific collaborators (Đờ Tùng – POLY, Cao Lê Hoàng, Lưu Thanh Duy, Đỗ Nguyễn Hoàng Vũ, Doãn Hoài Nam…), Hồ Trâm Anh sketched out an impressionist art piece about passed youth with hazy nostalgia and dreamy arrangements.
HANOI GRAPEVINE’s FINEST is an annual event that honors contemporary art projects in Vietnam. The event is organized and nominated by Hanoi Grapevine and the general audience.
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