Marre (preview new vinyl EP “Chicanes” out in June 2023)

BOUND opens with a solo played by Vanessa Vo on the đàn bầu, a one-stringed electronic instrument that can be plucked or bowed by the right hand while the performer’s left hand manipulates a pitch-bending rod, originally made from the horn of a water buffalo. Vo discusses this instrument and her career in a podcast at https://soundcloud.com/seattle-opera/vanessa-vo-and-the-vietnamese-instruments-of-bound. 

Conducted by Huang Ruo. Image by Sunny Martini.

VANESSA VO Đàn Bầu Solo from BOUND

A cacophony of sounds influenced by a dream that was hard to discern from reality. Full of weird sounds, orchestral instruments and strange little vst's and kontakt libraries I've picked up over the years. The chorus makes me laugh as it is the beautiful vocal harmony singing these super tacky emo teenager angsty type lyrics.

Lyrics



Once upon a midnights echo
In my fortress of solitude
A symphony
Just for me
The perfect place
To let go
a knocking rhythm 
Came at my door
Familiar faces I'd seen before
To a grand manor 
I was led
A gathering of woven threads

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Swimming in illusions
Grand and bright
A lavish feast
In the pale moonlight
A journey in a sleepy haze
endlessly traversing 
the shadowy maze
intruders in the shadows
conscience in the gallows
creatures creating
reality bending waves


Reality tends to blend
When you're fucked up in the head
Will this shit ever end

Chop me
Change me
Re-arrange me

Reality tends to blend
When you're fucked up in the head
Will this shit ever end

rEaLiTy

Một nghệ sĩ biểu diễn đàn 1 dây (Đàn bầu)
là một loại nhạc cụ truyền thống của người Việt, thanh âm phát ra nhờ sử dụng que hay miếng gảy vào dây. Dựa theo cấu tạo của hộp cộng hưởng, đàn bầu chia hai loại là đàn thân tre và đàn hộp gỗ. 
...
https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%90%C3%A0n_b%E1%BA%A7u

Đàn bầu (Dan bau) 彈匏 độc huyền cầm 独弦琴 獨弦琴 đàn một dây

UIII

musique inquiétante

https://traque-nark.bandcamp.com

Founded in 1963, Seattle Opera is a leading American opera company. The company presents the classics of the European repertoire as well as new works of American opera. Frequent productions of Wagner's RING, beginning in 1975, established the company's worldwide reputation. Seattle Opera usually presents five opera productions each year.

Hypnotic music. Mystical rituals. Loop folk. Witchtronic. Expertimental.

I've had no formal training in music, sound engineering or anything, just time, patience and practice. I'd say I've written well over a thousand songs in my life. Most of them thrown away, but some make it here and other platforms.

My aim with music is to just write whatever i want to write. If that means experimenting with genres and not doing what's popular, then so be it. I know that this is technically a popularity contest, but whatever. If a handful of people like my tunes, then I'm pretty happy. I've never had any intent to make money from this endeavour - but hey if somehow, somewhere it happens... then I aint gonna say no.

My music charts my philosophical views, my perceptions on how other people see life, words and phrases I've heard while meditating and crazy stuff my brain tells me when my mental health is suffering. In some instances, I try to be relatable but I’d also be worried if you relate to my words.

I hope you enjoy my music - and if you do let me know via comment or message. I'm always up for a chat.

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