”Personal Mountains / Common Ground” Concert

Fri 01 Nov 2013, 8 pm
Hanoi Rock City

From the organizers:

Come meet the artists!

Hanoi is home to many amazing artists who strive to explore new sounds, new ways of creating and expressing things through music… and whose exciting creations, sadly, often remain a closed book to audiences not accustomed to such things.

That is why we are launching this series of events, to invite them to try and communicate with the audience. To bring their personal musical universe, all its wealth and subtlety, and make an effort to share it. Be accessible. Talk. Give the audience some keys to appreciate and understand. Meet us on the common ground, and help us enjoy the view on their personal mountains.

For this first edition, four musicians accepted to lend themselves to the experiment: Vũ Nhật Tân, Sébastien Gesell, Dan Henneberry, and Mathias Rossignol. They will each share their sound — and we made them promise, no sonic aggression, no “wall of sound”, no abstruse noise! But maybe, outworldly atmospheres, silence, or harmonies in unexpected places… Who knows?

And to close the evening, dance! Vũ Nhật Tân will switch to his DJ persona and fill the dancefloor with smart beats and powerful sounds until… late.

THE ARTISTS

Vũ Nhật Tân probably doesn’t need an introduction anymore… Explorer of musical genres, godfather of the Hanoi avant garde music scene, discoverer of new talents, and always an unpredictable performer…
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzDF3bttRFE[/youtube]

Sébastien Gesell arrived in Hanoi less than two years ago, and soon realized that if he wanted to hear the kind of music he liked, he’d better get behind the decks and play it himself. Since then, he’s come to be recognized as one of the most versatile and original DJs around, as good with clear minimal beats on the dancefloor as with warm voices in a dark, candle-lit room…
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQjzgqON4B0[/youtube]

Dan Henneberry is known as the guy with the guitar and pedals (and beard, too, but he doesn’t play that), and he has been exploring sounds with that setup either solo or in collaborations (notably with Dao Anh Khanh, or as member of the “astral groove” quartet the Tone Ripples). This time, however, he will forego his stringed instrument and create a set connecting an iPad to his famed effect pedals.

Listen to his soundcloud.

Mathias Rossignol has been tinkering with music for a while, but only recently started presenting his creations on the stage. His sound is mostly based on processed field recordings, aiming at revealing the music in “ordinary” sounds, with a fully open mind as to genre, loudness… Anything goes! For this series of concert, he’s started building sound-making machines that will be running on stage, and whose sound will be incorporated into the music.

Listen to his soundcloud.

Tickets: at doors 100k (50k for students).