Huong Thanh & Nguyên Lê - Fragile Beauty Album

Tracklist

1	The Swallow's Bridge	6:23
2	Faithfulness	3:39
3	Fragile Beauty	5:12
4	Tales Of The Mountain	7:18
5	Plantation Song	4:22
6	At Dusk, From The West Balcony	4:18
7	The Five Calls Of The Night	5:03
8	Go Cong Blues	3:57
9	The Pavillon Of Crystallized Azure	4:54
10	Weaving & Awaiting	5:58
11	Rowing The Sampan	3:17
12	Drifting On The Water	3:48

Versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
ACT 9451-2	Huong Thanh & Nguyên Lê	Huong Thanh & Nguyên Lê - Fragile Beauty ‎(CD, Album)	ACT	ACT 9451-2	Germany	2007

Credits

• Acoustic Bass [Pizzicato, Arco 5-string] – Renaud Garcia-Fons
• Backing Vocals – Nguyên Van-Hong
• Balafon [Trung] – Illya Amar
• Bass [Fretless] – Etienne Mbappé
• Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Synthesizer, Computer – Nguyên Lê
• Executive-Producer – Siegfried Loch
• Koto – Mieko Miyazaki
• Percussion – Alex Tran, Francis Lassus
• Piano – Dominique Borker
• Recorded By, Mixed By, Producer – Nguyên Lê
• Soprano Saxophone, Flute [Flutes] – Stéphane Guillaume
• Trumpet, Flugelhorn – Paolo Fresu
• Vocals – Huong Thanh
• Zither [Đàn Bầu], Zither [16-strings Dàn Tranh], Flute [Sao, Meo Bamboo Flutes] – Hao Nhiên Pham

Notes

Demo copy of the new album "Fragile Beauty"

Companies

• Produced At – Jazz Musiques Productions

Album

For sheer melodic and timbral beauty, there are few languages that can match Vietnamese - like most tonal languages, it sounds like it's being sung even when it's being spoken, and the effect is like a series of delicate, tuned gongs being struck quickly in sequence. Nguyên Lê & Huong Thanh: The Five Calls Of The Night, Fragile Beauty, Faithfulness и другие песни. Thanh has released three other ACT albums on which Lê produced, arranged and performed, and she's appeared on two of Lê's own discs-Maghreb & Friends ACT, 1998 and the particularly stunning Tales from Viêt-Nam ACT, 1997. Every one of these albums leads inevitably to Fragile Beauty, an album largely consisting of thoughtfully arranged traditional songs, but with some newly written. Fragile Beauty', a song from singer Huong Thanh and guitarist Nguyen Le's very beautiful jazzfusionworld music-album with the same title: Fragile Huong Thanh & Nguyên Lê - Fragile Beauty - ACT 4 - CD, Album - ACT 9451-2, inclut Drifting On The Water, Weaving & Awaiting, Faithfulness, Plantation Song, The Five Calls Of The Night, Fragile Beauty, Rowing The Sampan, The Pavillon Of Crystallized Azure, At Dusk, From The West Balcony, Go Cong Blues, The Swallow's Bridge, Tales Of The Mountain. Fragile Beauty. Nguyên Lê & Huong Thanh. The Five Calls of the Night. Rowing the Sampan. The Pavillon of Crystallized Azure. At Dusk, from the West Balcony. Go Cong Blues. The Swallow's Bridge. Tales of the Mountain. Huong Thanh & Nguyên Lê. Huong Thanh. Moon and Wind. Nguyên Lê. 15 Magic Years 1992 - 2007. Fragile Beauty is Huong Thanhs fourth album under her name on ACT following Moon and WindACT 9269-2, Dragonfly ACT 9293-2 and Mangustao ACT 9423-2, all of which feature Nguyên Lê as producer, co-composer, arranger and accompanist on the guitar. As before, the name of the album speaks eloquently of the music. The steady flow of life, its ephemeral nature and fragility are central themes of Buddhist culture. Vietnamese poetry has found a multitude of images to describe this: flowers drifting on water, or the passage of the clouds or the swallows. The team ThanhLê draw their inspiration f. Huong Thanh & Nguyen Le have taken their collaboration on Fragile Beauty to stellar heights with absolutely stunning results. Not only have they managed to so delicately fuse the enthralling breath and depth of Vietnamese folksong with unmistakable western harmonic influence, but they have done so with rare enchanting genuineness which never fails to move the listener. Huong Thanh's vocal prowess is mesmorising throughout the album, and Nguyen Le's mastery on the guitar & fretless guitarwork is revealed once again as he delicately augments to perfection from track to track