Art is Trouble is my 4th album, and my deep wish that imagination and arts can lead the world to a better state. 

Every change requires from us to overcome some trouble, easiness and sometimes even pain. By this condition our lives can go forward in a process of becoming what we are.

To those who have, are being or will have to leave their place of birth for another in order to have a better life.

To those who try to change their habits for a better place for their children.

To those who struggle to have their voices heard through their opinion or their art, in countries where silence reigns.


This album wouldn’t be possible without my family, my friends and my listeners. Infinite thanks Dears.

Thanks to Ripperton and Azenoire for their kind participation, to Delphine Sandoz, Tammam Azzam, Eleni Ntouva, Azenoire for the artworks, to Anna for the lyrics corrections.

Art is Trouble

Preconscious
the mental function in which thoughts, ideas, emotions, or memories not in immediate awareness can be brought into the consciousness, usually through associations, without encountering any intrapsychic resistance or repression.

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Dear friends and listeners,
a few words about what this album 'preconscious' and its genesis.
His first title i chose for her perfect ability to define this place in mind which arise the emotions, then the senses images, stored in memory, accessible when the process of awareness.
At the base of the project, i chose the name of my son who was still 'in the pipeline', it is this impulse that i started to work: how to welcome and get ready myself at his coming. Then i felt the need to broaden the spectrum, about the conditions necessary for this coming, approaching love, trust, endurance. Desiring to do a 'fiction' i kept the title ‘arya’ only realistic trace of this birth. So i talk about these choices, those who gather and those who separate, the various crucial stages of a relationship, the desire to remain upright, prepare and keep his way, and that which is done to my family.
From my current location as well as the cultural and generational clash that every day i measure the size, i wanted to attempt a dialogue. it certainly there's much moral in this project and i fully assume. I have the ambition to share this aspect of my life with the generations that follow, the photographic and visual choices and some of the texts are illustration of it. And to go back to the preconscious, this need has been paired with this sudden realization.
Some may find this album less researched, less dense and much less dancing than before. As some of you know, i no longer recognize myself in this square of green that is music for clubbing. This format, nor its rationale doesn’t represent me at the moment. With this album, i take off, leaving the scene that brought me so she forced me. I do not know my next destination, but hope to see you there and hopes that you will find refuge in this latest opus as a welcoming and warm.

Regards 
Van Hai


Preconscious - Album

'Ruptures' was my second album.
 
There are stories of separation, cracks and changes 
it's raw and neat, near and far, here and there
dedicated to my family, my friends, my listeners 
my declaration of love to all those struggling to make their lives together

Have the best everything =) 
Van Hai
-
All tracks are written, produced and mastered by Van Hai
Saxophone on 'Rupture' is performed by Le Z



Ruptures, Album 2010, Mescene records

Intimacy is my first album, built up over the last two years of music production. I tried to transcribe the people, moods, ideas that shared my creative process and my life everyday.

This album is always a relation of one to one ; like a couple, a spectator, an intervenor. It often mentions reflection, image and projection. As an analysis of the social and relational substance that makes any possible interpretation.

Have a nice listening
Van Hai

Intimacy, Album 2010

Please Click the Buy link in the player to access to the donation form. Thanks in advance!

Français

Introduction / charte

« Exile » est un projet musical, artistique et intellectuel ouvert dans le temps et l’espace, mis en œuvre pour faire face à la montée de la xénophobie et de l’intolérance en Europe et plus généralement dans les pays dits « développés ».

« Exile » n’est le fruit d’aucune idée politique de quelque aile que ce soit et n’acceptera aucune récupération. « Exile » est le fait de personnes ayant connu l’émigration pour des raisons économiques, humanitaires ou politiques. Ce projet est avant tout leur manière de partager leur expérience, leurs sentiments sur ce sujet.

En dehors de toute idéologie et religion, les œuvres présentées sont autant de messages personnels - qu’ils soient adressés à ceux qui les soutiennent, ou a ceux qui les condamnent - lancés contre le mur de l’indifférence.

Nous, producteurs et artistes exilés, prenons ainsi la liberté de parler en notre nom et de ne plus accepter que les autres le fassent à notre place pour se rendre populaires, attirer leur électorat ou vendre leurs idées.

Nous ne demandons rien d’autre en échange de l’utilisation des œuvres de ce projet que le respect de ceux qui les ont produites, en les mentionnant. Nous invitons également ceux qui le souhaitent à faire un don en faveur de la Croix-Rouge, aujourd’hui pour les exilés d’Afrique du nord et demain pour d’autres qui seront forcés de partir de chez eux, mais qui ne le savent pas encore.

Nous espérons que ce projet suscitera l’intérêt ainsi que le désir de parole chez certains jusque là silencieux ou orientés vers d’autres sujets.

Tous les détails seront accessibles prochainement depuis le site web : www.mescene.com/exile/

Conditions de participation au projet

Sera accueilli à bras ouverts celui qui a quelque chose à partager sur ce sujet, par le média de son choix mais dans le respect des lignes précédentes. Les opinions ne nous intéressent pas, nous voulons de vraies expériences.

Liste des participants (au 19 mars 2011)

Van Hai (Vietnam-Suisse-Laos)
musicien et producteur, plasticien, co-manager du label Mescene records et membre du collectif Corporari

David Durango (Espagne-Suisse)
musicien et producteur, co-manager du label Mescene records

Dawad (Laos-France)
musicien et producteur, co-manager du label IRM records

Masaya (Chili-Suisse)
musicienne et productrice, manager du label Mina Records

Laure Mi Hyun Croset (Corée-Suisse)
écrivain, éditée chez Luce Wilquin

Alvaro Del Canto (Chili-Suisse)
plasticien et graphic designer, membre du collectif Corporari

Anna Maria Phayouphorn (Allemagne-Suisse)
Historienne en architecture, collaboratrice éditoriale, traductrice et archiviste

English

Introduction / charter

"Exile" is a musical, artistic and intellectual project open in time and space, initiated in response to the rise of xenophobia and intolerance in Europe and more generally in so-called "developed" countries.

"Exile" is not the result of any political idea whatsoever, and will not accept any misappropriation. "Exile" is a creation of people who have experienced emigration for economic, humanitarian or political reasons. This project is a way to share their experiences, their feelings on this subject.

Regardless of ideology and religion, the works presented are personal messages. They are addressed to those who support, or those who condemn them - thrown against the wall of indifference.

We, producers and artists in exile, thus take the liberty to speak on our own behalf and stop accepting others to do it in order to get popular, obtain votations or sell their ideas.

We ask for nothing else in exchange for the use of these works but to respect their authors by mentioning them. We also invite those who wish to make a donation to the Red Cross to exiled persons from North Africa and for others who will be forced to leave their homes in the future.

We hope this project will make want to speak up some of those who have remained silent or were turned to other subjects.

All details will soon be available on the website:
www.mescene.com/exile/

Conditions for participation in the project

We welcome anyone who has something to share on this subject in the media of their choice, but in respect of the above-mentioned. We are not interested in opinions, we want real experiences.

List of Participants (to 19th of march 2011)

Van Hai (Vietnam-Switzerland-Lao PDR)
musician and producer, plastician, co-manager of the label Mescene records and member of Corporari collective

David Durango (Spain-Switzerland)
musician and producer, co-manager of the label Mescene records

Dawad (Lao PDR-France)
musician and producer, co-manager of the label IRM records

Masaya (Chili-Switzerland)
musician and producer, manager of the label Mina Records

Laure Mi Hyun Croset (Korea-Switzerland)
writer, edited by Luce Wilquin

Alvaro Del Canto (Chili-Switzerland)
plastician and graphic designer, member of Corporari collective
            
Anna Maria Phayouphorn (Germany-Switzerland)
art historian, editorial collaborator, translator and archivist

Deutsch

Einführung/Charta

“Exile” ist ein künstlerisch-musikalisches Projekt, das räumlich und zeitlich unbegrenzt ist. Es wurde angesichts der zunehmenden Xenophobie und Intoleranz in Europa und den so genannten entwickelten Ländern ins Leben gerufen.

“Exile” entspringt keiner politischen Intention und soll nicht zu politischen Zwecken missbraucht werden.

“Exile” wird von Menschen geschaffen, die Emigration erlebt haben, sei es aus wirtschaftlichen, humanitären oder politischen Gründen. Dieses Projekt soll ihnen ermöglichen, sich auf ihre Art und Weise zu diesem Thema zu äußern.

Die vorgestellten Arbeiten sind persönliche Botschaften ohne religiöse oder ideologische Absichten. Sie richten sich an diejenigen, die ihre Autoren unterstützen oder kritisieren – ein Aufschrei gegen die Gleichgültigkeit.

Zu oft wird der Migrationsdiskurs missbraucht - wir nehmen uns die Freiheit, durch unsere Werke als Exilanten für uns selbst zu sprechen.

Die Werke sind frei zugänglich und verwendbar. Als einzige Gegenleistung bitten wir darum, dabei die Namen ihrer Autoren zu nennen. Außerdem rufen wir dazu auf, über das Rote Kreuz an heutige oder zukünftige Flüchtlinge zu spenden.

Wir hoffen, dass dieses Projekt einige betroffene dazu animiert ihr Schweigen zu brechen, oder sich mit diesem Thema zu beschäftigen.

Für Einzelheiten steht bald folgende Website zur Verfügung: www.mescene.com/exile

Bedingungen für die Beteiligung am Projekt:

Wir begrüßen jeden, der sich mit einem Beitrag im Medium seiner Wahl am Projekt beteiligen möchte, unter den oben genannten Voraussetzungen. Wir brauchen keine Meinungen, wir suchen Menschen, die selbst Exil erfahren haben.

Liste der Teilnehmer (an 19. März 2011)

Van Hai (Vietnam-Laos-Schweiz)
Musiker und Produzent, Bildender Künstler, Co-Manager des Plattenlabels Mescene records, Mitglied des Kollektivs Corporari

David Durango (Spanien-Frankreich)
Musiker und Produzent, Co-Manager des Plattenlabels Mescene records

Dawad (Laos-Frankreich)
Musiker und Produzent, Co-Manager des Plattenlabels IRM records

Masaya (Chile / Schweiz)
Musiker und Produzent, Label-Manager Mina Records

Laure Croset Mi Hyun (Korea-Schweiz)
Schriftsteller, von Luce Wilquin veröffentlicht

Alvaro del Canto (Chile / Schweiz)
bildender Künstler und Grafiker, Mitglied des Kollektivs Corporari

Anna Maria Phayouphorn (Deutschland-Schweiz)
Architekturhistoriker, Redaktionsassistentin, Übersetzer und Archivar

Exile Project

Last project i did in Switzerland few weeks before leaving, with my old brother Ripperton. I started to imagine the lyrics, driving my bicycle to its studio, that was done once there. 
You will find our original version, an Iron Curtis and Margaret Dygas remixes in vinyl-only-release on Tamed records.

We chose to share this version for the Exile project. 

here are the lyrics:
our domestic lives
reach the point behind us
sweet and sour bubbles
fears and stresses
keep your next smile
to your sales director
keep your fist tight
still invisible
i packed my courage
i closed the door threw the key
i chose left direction
i left
the city lights
behind the glasses
switch and restart
step out the chains
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Ripperton feat. Van Hai - City Lights - Hai's Exile version

New Layout 003 01

Processing Song & Album

O quam tristis et afflícta
fuit illa benedícta,
mater Unigéniti

Stabat Mater

Stabat Mater Project_03_O Quam Tristis

Processing Song & Album

Quae mœrebat et dolebat,
pia Mater, dum videbat
nati pœnas ínclyti

Stabat Mater Project_04 Quae Moerebat

Processing Song & Album

Stabat mater dolorósa
juxta Crucem lacrimósa,
dum pendébat Fílius.

Stabat Mater Project_01_Stabat Mater Dolorosa

Processing Song & Album

Cuius ánimam geméntem,
contristátam et doléntem
pertransívit gládius.

Stabat Mater Project_02_Cuius Animam Gementem

My second track for the Exile project.
Once finished all this project will be free at www.mescene.com/exile/ and will let the listeners to donate to Red Cross NGO involved in the actual disasters. 
//Regarding the recent events, i invite you to already donate to Red Cross using this link: 
http://www.icrc.org/eng/donations/index.jsp
Lyrics :
we need to survive
this difficult ordeal
I have confidence in you
i know you will not fall
think of all we lived
all the happiness we had
If tonight all is removed
Tomorrow we will start again
oh dear
there is no end to love
Even out of strength
I shall rise again for you
you see there is nothing to fear
they can take you away from me
I'll find the way to you
we will always continue
I hear them coming
hold me one last time in you arms
Seal this promise forever
one day my love, together
(ps: don't find the woman in these lines, it's about motherland)
Thanks for listening, thanks to support life.


Exile Project - Van Hai - Hope

3 Years ago, the magic happened. For those who still not know/own it. Free service.

Have a nice everything.

Van_Hai_-_Dernier Amour - Ripperton's No Love Lost Reshape

Dears, it's years i didn't record a Dj set. Here you will find some old and new tracks to overcome the cold. Have a nice everything.

Tracklist//

SCSI-9
Schaukel Duo

Mjutah
Otres

Douglas Greed
Down There

Mount Kimbie
Made to Stray (Koze remix)

Ripperton & Van Hai
City Lights

Bonobo
Cirrus

Ten Walls
Requiem

Jori Hulkkonen
Liquid Hologram feat. JiiHoo

Lulu Rouge
Bodycodes (feat. Asbørn)

Isolee 
Dennis

Daniel Avery
Drone Logic

Mondkrater
Zodiac

Willy Real & David Prap
Data Traveller (Luis M remix)

Van Hai
Hypnose

A Winter Set

Exile Project - David Durango - Born, live and die

Exile Project - daWad - A un passeur

Live for DelJardin Latino podcast, recorded in 2010

Lives

100513_live_deljardinlatino

Unreleased remix i made for Mattheis the year 2011.

Lyrics>
Nothing can be accomplished, following
this
winds of silent victory exhale
falls towards
rebounds
as a self consuming ball
each time it comes to the ground
O! Ravages of interval

Mattheis - Like A Balloon - Van Hai Remix

01 spleen

02 Exsangue

03 Suspicion

04 Nous revoir

05 Le manque

10 Ceux qui restent

Intimacy is my first album, built up over the last two years of music production. I tried to transcribe the people, moods, ideas that shared my creative process and my life everyday.

This album is always a relation of one to one ; like a couple, a spectator, an intervenor. It often mentions reflection, image and projection. As an analysis of the social and relational substance that makes any possible interpretation.

For those I do not know personally and who listens, I like to think of a meeting with everyone around him with a sense of belonging to something. For beyond any ambition, I tried to recreate a connection, perhaps something missing or lost, when after a lengthy absence, it belongs to others or to oneself open arms and confident.
To those we lost and those that are still here. To the others so close to ourselves in what they live and that little thing prevents us to meet.

Have a nice listening
Van Hai

07 Intimacy

05 Dernier Amour

04 Dyptique

03 Anxious

02 A Romance

01 The Daydreamer

Stabat Mater Project 05 Quando Corpus

Art is Trouble is my 4th album, and my deep wish that imagination and arts can lead the world to a better state.

Every change requires from us to overcome some trouble, easiness and sometimes even pain. By this condition our lives can go forward in a process of becoming what we are.

To those who have, are being or will have to leave their place of birth for another in order to have a better life.

To those who try to change their habits for a better place for their children.

To those who struggle to have their voices heard through their opinion or their art, in countries where silence reigns.

This album wouldn’t be possible without my family, my friends and my listeners. Infinite thanks Dears.

Thanks to Ripperton and Azenoire for their kind participation, to Delphine Sandoz, Tammam Azzam, Eleni Ntouva, Azenoire for the artworks, to Anna for the lyrics corrections.

Van Hai - Outro

Van Hai - Comment Croire

Van Hai - Riot

image by Azenoire
https://www.facebook.com/Azenoire-206761436172658/
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we have been so far away
that no return was planned
there were no doubts anymore
this place belonged to us

we were so free
and finally so true
and we felt so good
why have we surrendered

we had right to happiness
this image of ourselves
that finally you have denied
cause you no longer believe

they will never know that it exists
unless they succeed to come
I would like to be able to share this place
otherwise than through a song
__

Art is Trouble is my 4th album, and my deep wish that imagination and arts can lead the world to a better state.

Every change requires from us to overcome some trouble, easiness and sometimes even pain. By this condition our lives can go forward in a process of becoming what we are.

To those who have, are being or will have to leave their place of birth for another in order to have a better life.

To those who try to change their habits for a better place for their children.

To those who struggle to have their voices heard through their opinion or their art, in countries where silence reigns.

This album wouldn’t be possible without my family, my friends and my listeners. Infinite thanks Dears.

Thanks to Ripperton and Azenoire for their kind participation, to Delphine Sandoz, Tammam Azzam, Eleni Ntouva, Azenoire for the artworks, to Anna for the lyrics corrections.

Van Hai & Azenoire - Of Broken Promises

Van Hai - The Cruise

you know we don't do what we want
you know I never had a choice
I know it's hard to be got there
I know I've never been here with you

You know if I had known 
I would have raced to you
only one single day
always isolates me from you

one day and all other
either today or the day of my leaving
I didn't know you were going to exist 
til this moment I see your face

so many questions overwhelm me
one of these is enough to make me crazy
and although I always felt something
I never wanted to know

Now you're here smiling
smiling like this for the rest of my life
cause I won't see you live				
I’ll only keep that image of you		

this time when the world falls apart
at the bend of a conversation      
truth emerges
like a huge thunderclap

I can not describe what happens
I only want to stay on my feet 	
and while I try to gather my wits
I prepare the mask I'll wear forever
__

Art is Trouble is my 4th album, and my deep wish that imagination and arts can lead the world to a better state.

Every change requires from us to overcome some trouble, easiness and sometimes even pain. By this condition our lives can go forward in a process of becoming what we are.

To those who have, are being or will have to leave their place of birth for another in order to have a better life.

To those who try to change their habits for a better place for their children.

To those who struggle to have their voices heard through their opinion or their art, in countries where silence reigns.

This album wouldn’t be possible without my family, my friends and my listeners. Infinite thanks Dears.

Thanks to Ripperton and Azenoire for their kind participation, to Delphine Sandoz, Tammam Azzam, Eleni Ntouva, Azenoire for the artworks, to Anna for the lyrics corrections

Van Hai - Hypothetical Daughter

image by Azenoire
www.facebook.com/Azenoire-206761436172658/

Art is Trouble is my 4th album, and my deep wish that imagination and arts can lead the world to a better state.

Every change requires from us to overcome some trouble, easiness and sometimes even pain. By this condition our lives can go forward in a process of becoming what we are.

To those who have, are being or will have to leave their place of birth for another in order to have a better life.

To those who try to change their habits for a better place for their children.

To those who struggle to have their voices heard through their opinion or their art, in countries where silence reigns.

This album wouldn’t be possible without my family, my friends and my listeners. Infinite thanks Dears.

Thanks to Ripperton and Azenoire for their kind participation, to Delphine Sandoz, Tammam Azzam, Eleni Ntouva, Azenoire for the artworks, to Anna for the lyrics corrections

Van Hai & Ripperton - A World Where We Are Missing

Image by Le Nantou, Eleni Ntouva.
https://www.facebook.com/Le-Nantou-302331706589887/


Art is Trouble is my 4th album, and my deep wish that imagination and arts can lead the world to a better state.

Every change requires from us to overcome some trouble, easiness and sometimes even pain. By this condition our lives can go forward in a process of becoming what we are.

To those who have, are being or will have to leave their place of birth for another in order to have a better life.

To those who try to change their habits for a better place for their children.

To those who struggle to have their voices heard through their opinion or their art, in countries where silence reigns.

This album wouldn’t be possible without my family, my friends and my listeners. Infinite thanks Dears.

Thanks to Ripperton and Azenoire for their kind participation, to Delphine Sandoz, Tammam Azzam, Eleni Ntouva, Azenoire for the artworks, to Anna for the lyrics corrections

Van Hai - Hypnose

Demonstration, Tammam Azzam
http://www.ayyamgallery.com/artists/tammam-azzam


i thought we made it
but we were confused
our blind sensations
out of realities

we only imagined
we were strong enough
to apply what we believed
without being accounted for

now we must flee
to escape their control
feeling how much better
a life is without them

I smile as I run
thinking we'll never be
like those who care
their unbearable guilt

our freedom
against all odds
bends under blows
but does not yield

could one of us survive 
long enough for the truth
to know why they struggle
to make hell from all of us       

they expect death 
to clear the slate
they feel alone
to exclude life
__

Art is Trouble is my 4th album, and my deep wish that imagination and arts can lead the world to a better state.

Every change requires from us to overcome some trouble, easiness and sometimes even pain. By this condition our lives can go forward in a process of becoming what we are.

To those who have, are being or will have to leave their place of birth for another in order to have a better life.

To those who try to change their habits for a better place for their children.

To those who struggle to have their voices heard through their opinion or their art, in countries where silence reigns.

This album wouldn’t be possible without my family, my friends and my listeners. Infinite thanks Dears.

Thanks to Ripperton and Azenoire for their kind participation, to Delphine Sandoz, Tammam Azzam, Eleni Ntouva, Azenoire for the artworks, to Anna for the lyrics corrections.

Van Hai - Against All Odds

Untitled Painting by Delphine Sandoz
http://www.saatchiart.com/delphinesandoz

Art is Trouble is my 4th album, and my deep wish that imagination and arts can lead the world to a better state. 

Every change requires from us to overcome some trouble, easiness and sometimes even pain. By this condition our lives can go forward in a process of becoming what we are.

To those who have, are being or will have to leave their place of birth for another in order to have a better life.

To those who try to change their habits for a better place for their children.

To those who struggle to have their voices heard through their opinion or their art, in countries where silence reigns.


This album wouldn’t be possible without my family, my friends and my listeners. Infinite thanks Dears.

Thanks to Ripperton and Azenoire for their kind participation, to Delphine Sandoz, Tammam Azzam, Eleni Ntouva, Azzenoire for the artworks, to Anna for the lyrics corrections. 

Van Hai - Art Is Trouble

Unreleased Track from 2011
The whole track came from a dream, based on a single harmonic and the challenge to make it evolve and create depth.

unreleased

End Englese

Faith

// 2017 edit, "massstered" version//

One of my most personal track, i wrote it when ma grandma died few times ago. Last chain element of my entire missing family.
  
  It's a gift for all people who miss someone.
  
  With love.
  h

Funeral (2017 edit)

alone
concentrated
successives
images
undefined
tones of greens
I put distance
in between you and me

trees bend
under a deadly sun
fixed on the road
my eyes wide open
attempt to sow you
the past behind me
I put distance
in between you and me

all these houses
I wouldn't visit 
all these people
I wouldn't meet
my life is on the line
the furrow of my tires
I put distance
in between you and me

it's a one-way trip
to oblivion
I try the fate
don't care about my chances	
Every minute is a term
leading me to the truth
I put distance
in between you and me

Motortrack

Opening

Arya

Hai Kham (movie soundtrack)

Hunger for you

Albatross (with Minski)

My First track for the Exile project.
Once finished all this project will be free here and will let the listeners to donate to Red Cross NGO involved in the actual disasters. 
//Regarding the recent events, i invite you to already donate to Red Cross using this link:
http://www.icrc.org/eng/donations/index.jsp
Lyrics:
take me out of here
let me forget everything
all the pain I live
all of these changes I fear
one more day and i'll die
please take me out of here
sing me a song
sing me words to fade
to fade out the war
the gunshots in my head
the screams in my sleep
please sing me a song 
hold me again
don't let them pick me up
i wanna stay with you
i don't know their smile
you are my only savior
please hold me again
Thanks for listening, thanks to support life.


vanhai

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