Ca tru with Hue

This monday me and Pia moved to a apartment on Tran Hung Dao. It's more like an hotel really with a room each, shared kitchen and a woman doing the cleaning. The concert went very well and as soon as we possible we will put up some film on the blogg. The others left for malmö the same day, so now we are alone. The last thing wi did together before they left was visiting our first teacher Hue. She brought some of her students to her house and we had tea and listened to Ca tru and Ngam tho (like poetry reading to music). I filmed them when they Hue sang Bac phan, a tune we listened to in sweden when we where trying to get a grip of mode and metabole in Ca tru. Hue sings and plays the phac, her student Thuy plays the Dan day and Nhat plays the Trong chau.

Bac Phan


Barley Norton have written about mode and metabole in Bac phan, you can find more o that here.
This afternoon we are going to have a meeting with Hai van about what we are going to do during this months. This far all we have decided is that on friday and saturday we are going with Hue for some more Ca tru performances.