Nguyen Hong Ngoc, Ph.D
Lecturer of Vietnamese language and studies for foreigners
Linguistic Researcher
Hanoi National University, Vietnam

Contact info:
Email: global.vietnamese@gmail.com
Phone: +84 904 16 86 96

Quartetto Minimo is a French-Spanish instrumental band founded in Madrid in 2009. Their original compositions have often been categorized as Progressive music, Jazz, Indie, Indie-Jazz, or even Chamber Jazz. There is however one thing everybody agrees on: their style is rare and does not fit in any particular genre. From the beginning, the band has focused solely on original compositions. In between 2010 and 2013, Quartetto Minimo recorded four albums, had their music played on national and international radios and won many prizes. Alongside a significant number of concerts in Madrid, they performed in many other Spanish cities like Sevilla, Ibiza, Bilbao and in other countries such as France, Portugal and Tunisia. In 2014, Quartetto Minimo broke up and retired from the music scene. During four years their musicians traveled, studied new instruments and developed different projects. In 2018 a new formation began as harpist Norma Mugnier joined the band, replacing former guitarist Sebastian Spang. The QM started making music again. They released their latest album, Atlantico, in September 2018. The album has been well received in France, where it has been broadcasted in national radios (Tout nouveau tout FIP, FIP Jazz, FIP, Open Jazz sur France Musique). Their music comes from original compositions by Eliaz Hercelin, in close concert with Nicolas Arzimanoglou Mas and Norma Mugnier. Nowadays, the band is based in Paris and features Norma Mugnier at the harp, Nicolas Arzimanoglou Mas at the guitar, Eliaz Hercelin at the double-bass and Ilan Hercelin at the drums.

FULL ALBUM:
https://danit.bandcamp.com/album/aliento.

I'm excited to announce that my new album "Aliento" is now available for download on bandcamp.

Enjoy

formed in Tainan/Taiwan, 2008. Three-pieces instrumental band. Some songs are from their 2nd. demo "模樣國/That 's a nation what we saw", 2010.
They had joined Mega-Port Festival 2010, SpringScream09'、10', and performed at live-house (THE WALL, etc..) continually in Taiwan. And they were invited to be opening band for "TOE asia tour Taiwan 2010".
Finally, hope you enjoy it :) .


At the close of 2012, DENGUE FEVER, a band widely recognized for its trademark blend of 60’s Cambodian pop and psychedelic rock, proudly announced the launch of its homegrown label, TUK TUK Records. The band’s newly established independence marks yet another chapter in the continual evolution of a group unlike many in the Los Angeles music scene. 

Currently in the studio recording tracks for their next release, DENGUE FEVER launched TUK TUK to release their back catalog, potential solo music from its band members, and previously released but long out-of-print music related to each band member. Their first two releases included their long out-of-print eponymous debut (2003) and its critically acclaimed sophomore follow-up, Escape from Dragon House (2005). Amazon.com named Dragon House the #1 int’l release for 2005, and Mojo magazine named it in their Top 10 World Music releases of 2006. Each album has been expanded into digital deluxe editions with rare and unreleased bonus tracks from the band’s archives. 

Eminent musicians from around the world took notice of the band’s rise over their first half-decade. In 2008, Real World Records Founder and musician, Peter Gabriel, licensed their third release, Venus on Earth, for the world and noted, "They're California-based but have taken '60's Cambodian pop as their main source of inspiration and it's done with style. Its spirited, impassioned." More kudos came from Metallica’s Kirk Hammett who handpicked the band’s song “One Thousand Tears of A Tarantula” from Dragon House for his Rolling Stone magazine ‘Best Music Of The Decade’ ballot - as the second best song of the entire decade. International touring transpired quickly after the release of Venus including an inspired two-song set on the BBC’s Later with Jools Holland show (2009) followed by on-air praise from Ray Davies of the Kinks. Davies likened them to “….a cross between Led Zeppelin and Blondie. And I should know, I toured with both of them.” 

DENGUE FEVER’s latest release, Cannibal Courtship (Fantasy Records/Concord Music Group), was released in April 2011. Their latest record moved the needle yet again with the band performing live for the first time ever, in France, Mexico and Brazil. Today, only two continents (Africa and Antarctica) have yet to host a DENGUE FEVER performance.

Mass media exposure arrived in many forms for DENGUE FEVER and not just on the world stage. Tracks from their catalog have appeared in films such as City of Ghosts, Jim Jarmusch’s, Broken Flowers and The Hangover 2. Television series’ such as Showtime’s, Weeds, HBO’s hit series True Blood (who named an entire episode after one of their songs) and featured the band’s music and CBS’ series CSI: Las Vegas combined with numerous independent documentaries to feature the bands music. 

Always press darlings, band profiles in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Mojo, Uncut, Magnet, Wired, Spin, NPR’s “Fresh Air” Radio Australia, KCRW’s “Morning Becomes Eclectic” and World Café Live all profiled the band’s unique sound. In 2013, with new music being recorded, a back catalog that is beefed up with bonus tracks and tour dates being confirmed, the time is truly ripe for at least another 10 years of breaking down more musical barriers.

Yasmine Hamdan first made waves in the music scene with the pioneering Beirut indie electronic duo Soapkills, which she co-founded with Zeid Hamdan in the late 1990s. 

Having moved to Paris in 2005, Yasmine collaborated with Madonna producer Mirwais for the Y.A.S. project, releasing the sleeky clubby Arabology album on Universal in 2009. Since then, she has earned international acclaim as a solo singer-songwriter and producer, elegantly entwining far-ranging elements, from pan-Arabic roots and pop and poetic lyrics, to electronica, soul and guitar melodies. Yasmine has collaborated with filmmakers such as Elia Suleiman, Jim Jarmusch, and has toured globally in support of her albums Ya Nass (2013) and Al Jamilat (2017). 

Her upcoming third album is scheduled for worldwide release in September 2025 on Crammed Discs/ [PIAS].

Photo : Ylias Nao

L’Asiathèque, maison d’édition spécialiste des cultures et des langues du monde, active depuis plus de quarante ans, propose un vaste choix de livres de fiction, de sciences humaines, et de langues, par des auteurs remarquables. Littérature, cinéma, philosophie, spiritualités, art, voyages, langues.

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"As a child, I grew up sitting in front of a computer by myself. That is where I learnt about music; playing video games and watching endless reruns of cartoons and American TV shows. Television gave me shelter when I was alone, nursed me with Hollywood’s mythologies. It guided me through nameless countries; with it I brought down colossuses and climbed mountains. I preached its beliefs. But when I grew up, all my heroes died. 

Today, I still come to mourn in deserted movie theatres. There, lights flash before my eyes. But I don’t feel anything in face of the latest blockbusters and their visual explosions, these chaotic clusters where Mechas and Kaijus pile up in between fights under the rain, tsunamis and apocalyptic scenes… Yet I feel numb, except for the roaring sub-basses that fill the void of cinemas. My music is for those who, like me, have grown up amongst the ruins of blockbusters. For them my bass trembles and my synths screech. 

But I know that beyond this digital coldness lie other horizons, other possibilities."

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