Credited on the record as Klub „Frühling" (Vietnam).
Vietnam - Kampuchea [Vietnam - Cambodia]
1979 · AMIGA 8 45 169 · Berlin, Germany: East [GDR]
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- Artist
- Klub Frühling
- Credited on the record as
- Klub „Frühling" (Vietnam)
- Title
- Vietnam - Kampuchea [Vietnam - Cambodia]
- Release
- Rote Lieder - 9. Festival des politischen Liedes
- Year
- 1979
- Label
- AMIGA # 8 45 169
- Format
- LP · Album
- Language
- German
- Country
- Berlin, Germany: East [GDR]
- Songwriter
- Bao Chung
- Genre
- Folk · Contemporary Folk
- Primary theme
- Post-War
Annotation
Vietnam - Kampuchea (Klub Frühling) Vietnam - Cambodia. Original recordings of the 9th Festival of Political Song (10-18 February 2, 1979, Berlin) German Democratic Republic (GDR)
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Notes
Original recordings of the 9th Festival of Political Song (10-18 February 2, 1979, Berlin) AMIGA 8 45 169 stereo LP "Rote Lieder", original recordings from the 9. Festival des politischen Liedes, Berlin 10–18 February 1979; VEB Deutsche Schallplatten Berlin DDR, design JAMEPO, lithography and printing VEB Gotha-Druck, editor Karl Heinz Ocasek, price 12,10 M; front cover: a singer with guitar and "Rote Lieder" shoulder bag photographed from behind. Side 1 track "Vietnam – Kampuchea", composition and text Bao Chung, performed by Klub „Frühling" (Vietnam); the sleeve note reads: Vietnam and Kampuchea are brothers in Indochina — both fought against US aggression and today work together for independence and the building of socialism. Other performers: Trovante (Portugal), Torpeedo (Finland), Oktoberklub and Schicht (GDR), Menuets (USSR), Macchina Maccheronica (Italy), Maria Farandouri…
About the artist
Klub 'Frühling' was a Vietnamese ensemble that appeared at the ninth Festival des politischen Liedes, the international political-song festival held annually in East Berlin by the FDJ; the festival's own participant archive lists the group as 'Frühling (Vietnam) 79'. "Vietnam - Kampuchea" was recorded live at that 1979 festival and issued on the state label Amiga's festival souvenir album 'Rote Lieder - 9. Festival des Politischen Liedes' (Amiga 8 45 169, German Democratic Republic, 1979), alongside performances by Oktoberklub, Karls Enkel, Maria Farandouri, Amparo Ochoa and Carlos Mejía…
Themes
Anti-War · Cambodia · Festival of Political Song · Vietnamese Patriotic · Vietnamese Perspective