Linh Nguyen - vocals/guitars;
Ralph Manak (pictured) - bass;
John Tyree - drums/bass (on Heaven)
Influences
Jeff Buckley, Radiohead, Jimi Hendrix, Songs:Ohia, Yo La Tengo, Sigur Ros, Coldplay, Travis, Carlos Santana, SRV, John Coltrane, Michael Hedges, Nick Drake, Damien Rice, Tom Waits, Leonard Cohen, Cafe Tacuba, Juanes, Joan Osborne, Nina Simone, Edith Piaf, Khanh Ly, Van Morrison, Led Zeppelin, The Police, Bruce Lee, and lots of 80s music.
Linh Nguyen was born in Central Viet Nam before the end of the war. His family immigrated to the United States in the early 1980s via Singapore and Indonesia. Linh grew up in Southern California absorbing popular Vietnamese songs sung at family gatherings and American rock music blasted on the radio. Inspired by such rich musical surroundings, he began teaching himself guitar at age thirteen. Many moons later, Linh is an accomplished guitarist and singer who seeks to create compelling and beautiful music that reflects his broad background and experiences.
Linh Nguyen currently resides in Oakland, California and has performed around the San Francisco Bay Area on stages such as Café DuNord and The Starry Plough and galleries such as Oaklandish and SOMArts the last as part of the 11th Annual Radical Performance Fest.
i like how you slowed 'stars' down...sesame seeds would so get lost in a pocket (i don't know how you do it). not going away for a bit (mid june to late june i'll be out of town) but back for more teaching in july...hope to play so much more music before september nears. are you playing out soon? keep me posted so i can stop in.
Hi and thanks for the friendship! Here’s a video from our most recent tour, in March-April. In an attempt to merge traditions of improvisation in Vietnamese and contemporary Western culture, this is a performance of Tu Dai Oán, a traditional Vietnamese song. In this performance with Thanh Thuy (playing the dan tranh), Stefan Östersjö (playing 10-string guitar) and Henrik Frisk (laptop), this traditional tune is overlapped with free improvisation with electronics. The performance is from a Scandinavian tour in spring 2009 with The Six Tones, a Swedish/Vietnamese project merging traditional and experimental music. The video was recorded at Atalante in Gothenburg by Niklas Rydén.
hahah, yeah i remember the field trip,...it was you, joel, alexis, dennis, and i cant remember who else, and me too, lol.. yeah it took so long to fix them. i attend oakland high, and im in vaamp "visual arts academy magnet program" its preety cool, and i work in the vammp print shop we do iron on t's and print shirts like mmm, oh have you heard of EBAYC? or have you seen the oakland holliday parade t's? we basically print all that stuff so if u guys ever need some just comment me or somthing, and its preety fun, mmm oh im also in the swimmteam, 4th year!, our team is unbeatable!!!..lol.. oh i saw you and ms.andrea in china twn walking not long ago you guys were walking twoards east oakland, yeah im plannin in goin to college, but i still dont know wich, maybe a community college close to home i dont like to travel far to go to school. so how u been? what bout the school?, ........ill ttyl. gtg
hey mr linh!!!!!, member me guillermo jasso i had you for world music...i was going through my music, and i heard ur song "i go nuts 4 donuts", and i searched you in myspace and i found you, how u been do you still work in MLA?, im in for my last year in high school!!!
if you were a better vocalist...you would be god and i would rip out my vocal chords as a fitting sacrifice in your honor.
btw, i secretly feel a need to add harmonies to compensate for what i think is a lack of vocal quality on my part.
when i was listening to into the night, i instantly thought to myself - your vocals don't need the fluff of harmony. just the voice and guitar is a very good experience for the ears. tip top linh.
oh and yeah, that was my cheap acoustic guitar. thankfully it didn't sound too bad on recording.
hi linh. it took a million times of hitting play on the player...but it was worth it. to hear into the night. myspace can be weird. but anywayz, into the night was very nice plus the slithery doubling.
take care now, max
ps - i also posted tornado blues - 6th on my player.
