Vietnam's Duo Performer - The Khac Chi

The Khac Chi are the sounds of Vietnam which duo musician. They perform exquisite music on rare and unique instruments. The instruments will be introduced later at here. The rich musical tradition of Vietnam is 4000 year history. They are popular for their musical skills innovation throughout Vietnam which their musics take you an adventure in sound. They have also won numerous awards for excellence, as well as many invitations for international appearances is because of their rare talents and super musicianship.

The duo are couple and they are the duo who perform as the Khac Chi. Besides performing for the Rainforest World Music Festival, they perform for the World of Music Arts and Dance Festival and also play at National Symphony Orchestra of Latvia. Their very first came for the Rainforest World Music Festival was 2002 and last year they came again bringing instruments that have never seen anywhere before which some of them have existence of 4000 years. This shows the Vietnamese have very strong inclination of music, right? Can you imagine an instrument from 4000 years ago? Crazy? Amuse? Interesting? Amazing or Miracle? Gosh I couldn't believe too. Anyway, go on about the duo before we go into the instruments part I am going to intro.

Ho, Chi Khac (pronounced: Ho, Chee Kac)
He is the world premiere virtuoso on the Dan Bau (a one string zitter). He compose music and research about music. He attended the National School of Music iat Vietnam and he was heard at concerts throughout North America, Europe and Asia. His very first award was on 1982 Vietnam Competition of Professional Instrumentalists which is first prize. Follow on was the Golden Award at the1985 International Folk Festival of World Youth in Moscow, and First Prize in the government's annual Improvement of Traditional Instruments of Vietnam in 1988. So, think about it? 1982! Gosh I was not even in this world yet. Amazing guy who loves music so much that and he got the talent of it!

Hoang, Ngoc Bich (pronounced: wong, ngoc bic)
Now here, this is Chi Khac's wife (a beautiful Vietnamese lady) who is an exceptional vocalist, arranger and multi-instrumentalist. She also like her husband specializes on the Dan Bau and also variety of very rare instruments from Vietnam's rural and mountainous regions. The RARE instruments are such as t’rung (bamboo xylophone), k’longput (percussion tubles), and ko ni. She was the first woman to won the First Prize for Dan Bau in the 1988 Vietnam Competition of Professional Instrumentalists. Isn't she great? Wow! I guess she really makes a lot of woman proud at that time and of course till now.

The Famous ONE STRING zitter - Dan Bau
It's tall curved stem are made from water buffalo horn inserted at one end. It produces characteristic high clear sound but not a very loud instrument because it was traditionally used in more intimate environments. Isn't it sound romantic?

K’Ni
A special form of stick fiddle that can only found in Vietnam which is a one string violin. The specialty about this instrument is the player's mouth act as the resonating chamber and precise movements of the lips and the tongue creates a broad range of tonal colors and emotional expression which give the K'ni its unique sound. The sounds will altered which almost evoke like human's pronounciation. That shock you??? Well, I did not get to see them last year because they did not perform on d first night! So sad, righT? So got to go this year if they are coming again! :D

I have introduced 2 of their famous instruments and the rest will be put on a slide show after this post for you to have a look. If more information needed, you can go to their website http://www.khacchi.com/instruments/instru.html.