Meritorious Artist Duong Thuy Anh has been associated with the image of wandering with the erhu throughout her 40-year artistic journey. She has contributed to the public impressive works of art, with a distinct style that is "crazy", unique and strange.
Marking 40 years of art, the female artist collaborated with musician Vo Thien Thanh to release the Album "Lang" and MV "Bang Qua Canh Rung".
Meritorious Artist Duong Thuy Anh is no longer a strange name in the Vietnamese music industry. She is currently a lecturer of the traditional musical instruments department of the Hanoi College of Arts, and is also a main member of the group Co La. Besides her role as a teacher, Duong Thuy Anh is also a familiar face on large, official stages, in key cultural and artistic programs of the country.
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| Meritorious Artist Duong Thuy Anh at the press conference to launch the Album "Lang" and MV "Bang Qua Canh Rung". |
Not following market trends, not making a big splash in the media like young artists or artists in the youth music genre, Duong Thuy Anh has won the hearts of the public and music lovers in her own way. In particular, the appearance of the female artist on the Hue Festival stage with fashion designer Minh Hanh has made a special impression on domestic and foreign audiences. She also regularly performs with famous artists on many domestic and international stages.
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| (From left to right): Director Hai Le Cao; Meritorious Artist Duong Thuy Anh; Creative Director Nguyen Lan Huong; Singer Bao Lan; Musician Vo Thien Thanh and MC Pham Manh Cuong. |
With her significant contributions to the country’s art scene over the past four decades, Meritorious Artist Duong Thuy Anh has been honored to receive many prestigious awards. To celebrate her 40th year of dedication to art, the artist collaborated with musician Vo Thien Thanh to release the album “Lang” and the music video “Bang Qua Canh Rung”.
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| Director Hai Le Cao and Musician Vo Thien Thanh. |
The album “Lang” conveys the message of listening to hear, to feel and to listen to capture the beauty in the soul of each listener. The album includes 6 works with different emotions, with the harmony of traditional musical instruments such as zither, monochord, bamboo flute…
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| Meritorious Artist Duong Thuy Anh performs with the erhu to launch an artistic product. |
“Lang” takes listeners into a majestic, mysterious forest where through the music, listeners seem to discover the everlasting, intense life. There, there will be times when you feel each step faintly under the canopy of the forest, and other times you will feel like you are lost in a beautiful, sparkling wonderland in a childhood fairy tale.
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| Image of Meritorious Artist Duong Thuy Anh performing in the forest. |
Sharing about this album, artist Thuy Anh said: “The album “Lang” has been cherished by Thuy Anh for a long time. With this album, Thuy Anh wants to do more to make the audience pay more attention to traditional musical instruments and traditional music. For Thuy Anh, to release an album is a long process of continuous effort, thinking, cultivating knowledge and skills, orienting the right direction and satisfying the passion for the two-stringed instrument. Thuy Anh hopes that the artistic creations of herself and her team will be widely accepted by the public.”
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| Director Hai Le Cao and Meritorious Artist Duong Thuy Anh. |
At the launch, Creative Director Nguyen Lan Huong said: “Since learning the erhu with teacher Thuy Anh, Nguyen Lan Huong's passion for art has burned within her. The process of contact has helped Thuy Anh and Lan Huong understand each other and accompany each other on this album "Lang". Cherishing the idea and message of the album during the most stressful time of the covid-19 pandemic, Lan Huong hopes that music can heal, so that those sound waves can help people regain balance and interact with their inner world. It is these messages that have determined the style, color scheme, and artistic effects in the album "Lang".
With the MV "Crossing the Forest" are layered melodies with many energy fields, bringing listeners a peaceful, poetic, gentle feeling like lulling the soul into a new life, escaping the hustle and bustle, the pressure of everyday life. There, you will be able to welcome the "First rays of sunlight" with the morning mist gradually opening the shadow of a "Temple in the mist", to listen to the "Prayer" with the wish for peace for all things in this universe will bring you into a peaceful life in "House on the Prairie" and there is also the "Dance of the Fireflies" simple, dreamy and poetic.
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| Artist Duong Thuy Anh "floats" with "dances". |
In this MV, Meritorious Artist Duong Thuy Anh impresses with her own unique personality with the erhu, sometimes hidden, sometimes appearing, sometimes very typical of the Vietnamese soul through the folk melodies of Cheo, Xam, and the folk songs on the Huong River... and then suddenly like the lyrics resounding in the cathedral, or sometimes the strange, emotional melody makes us feel like we are standing in front of a classical orchestra.
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| Singer Bao Lan and Meritorious Artist Duong Thuy Anh "floated" on stage at the press conference. |
The MV “Crossing the Forest” was organized and produced by director Hai Le Cao. The male director said: “The MV was made in a primeval forest in Ta Xua - Son La. Although having to walk to approach the forest and make the MV, Ms. Thuy Anh and the crew members had to try very hard. This is also the first MV and the first artist to be made in this primeval forest. Every angle, setting or artistic effect, I carefully considered to both honor the artist, the instrument and express the message of the song and the music. The difficulties in the production process seemed to disappear when artist Thuy Anh was adventurous and immersed in every note with the erhu. It can be said that the spirit of the artist is the strength and the center of attraction of this MV”.
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| Production crew interacted with the audience at the press conference. |
The MV tells a story through music led by Thuy Anh with her erhu. "Crossing the Forest" is like a message to the listener: "Difficulties are always ahead, but we will overcome them together with effort, striving to conquer ourselves, and then right in those hardships and challenges, beauty will open up for us to discover and receive the special gift that the Creator bestows upon humanity."
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| A "unique and strange" Thuy Anh is passionate about the erhu and transforms in the forest on the "green grassland". |
These are also the feelings and words of gratitude that Meritorious Artist Duong Thuy Anh sends to the precious people who have accompanied, supported and followed her throughout her 40-year journey of shining with passion for the erhu and dedicating herself to the national musical instrument.
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