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Release Cánh chim và ánh sáng mặt trời - Bird-Wing and Sunshine
Year Unknown
Label Dihavina # NDS 0002
Format LP · Album
Country North Vietnam
Language Instrumental
Songs here 4 in the archive
Citation: Justin A. Brummer, Vietnam War Song Project (VWSP) — The Central Ethnical Music Orchestra, Cánh chim và ánh sáng mặt trời - Bird-Wing and Sunshine; cite each song by its SongID

Cánh chim và ánh sáng mặt trời - Bird-Wing and Sunshine

Unknown date · Album · Dihavina # NDS 0002 · North Vietnam
4 songs from this release are in the archive, listed below in catalogue order. Track positions are not recorded; the release may carry other songs that do not reference the war. Most common themes: Vietnamese Perspective, Vietnamese Patriotic.
Annotation
Recorded on the Dihavina record label (# NDS 0002) in 1969 (unknown release date), originally the state label of North Vietnam (Democratic Republic of Vietnam) before reunification in 1975. Produced and issued in Former Czechoslovakia. It contained a couple songs focussing on South Vietnam: "To Remember the South" and "For the South" . The first track featured a suite telling a story, split into six chapters, starting out in the Phu Dong Village, followed by the "invaders". It then notes "Fighting Against Invaders", followed by "Triumph".
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Collection
Songs from this release appear in this curated collection.
The songs
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Unknown date · Album · Dihavina # NDS 0002 · Hanoi, Vietnam · Cánh chim và ánh sáng mặt trời - Bird-Wing and Sunshine

Dihavina NDS 0002, stereo, 33 rpm, black-and-silver labels "Nhà Xuất Bản Văn Hóa – Hà Nội Việt Nam", "Made in Czechoslovakia". The front cover ("Cánh chim và ánh sáng mặt trời – Hòa tấu nhạc dân tộc / Bird-Wing and Sunshine – Concert of Traditional Music") is a painting of a magenta sun among clouds above radiating red, pink and yellow diamonds, signed and dated 1979. Side A opens with the suite "Ong Giong" (Tổ khúc Ông Gióng) in six chapters – Phu Dong Village, An Invaders, Mother and Son, Forge, Fighting against Invaders, Triumph – composed by Nguyễn Xuân Khoát and conducted by Trần Quý, followed by "The Clear Canal" (Hoàng Đạm) and the title piece (Xuân Hòa), conducted by Nguyễn Chính; side B has "To Remember to the South", "The Dawn on the Mountainous Region", "Suite of Folk-Music: Lưu Thủy – Kim Tiền", "Crop Tale" and "For the South", with soloists Đinh Thìn (bamboo flute), Phương Bảo (sixteen-string cithare), Thao Giang (two-string violin) and Anh Tuấn (monochord). "Performed by The Central Ethnical Music orchestra" (Dàn nhạc của Đoàn ca nhạc dân tộc T.Ư.); recording director Xuân Trường, recording engineer Gia Huy, cover design Trần Tuy; "Recorded at the Disk studio of Hanoi – Vietnam 1969. Produced in Czechoslovakia." [From the record sleeve and labels]