Going to See the Country
The Compassionate Arts None · Nyack, New York
- Artist
- Trịnh Công Sơn
- Title
- Going to See the Country
- Release
- Cry of Vietnam: Three Vietnamese Voices That Cannot Be Silenced
- Label
- The Compassionate Arts # None
- Format
- LP · Album
- Language
- Vietnamese
- Country
- Nyack, New York, USA
- Songwriter
- Trịnh Công Sơn
- Genre
- Narration · Narration · Poetry
- Primary theme
- Peace, Protest & Anti-War
Notes
The Compassionate Arts presents "Cry of Vietnam", Fellowship of Reconciliation, Box 271, Nyack, N.Y. 10960; no catalogue number is printed. The front cover, "Produced by the Compassionate Arts of the Fellowship of Reconciliation", carries a woodcut and calligraphy by Vo-Dinh (the woodcut from his series "Crimson Silk", then on exhibit in Saigon) showing a screaming figure, with the subtitle "Three Vietnamese Voices that Cannot Be Silenced – Cao Ngoc Phuong, Thich Nhat Hanh, Trinh Cong Son", "Music and Poetry in Vietnamese and English" and "Featuring: Reading by Robert Ryan". Credits: Raphael Gould, producer (Director, Compassionate Arts); Steve Addiss, music consultant; Douglas Hostetter, translation consultant; Richard Groskopf, sound engineer; cover drawing, Vo-Dinh; poems read by Thich Nhat Hanh are from his book "The Cry of Vietnam" (Unicorn Press, Santa Barbara, copyright 1967…
About the artist
Trịnh Công Sơn, a slight guitarist, emerged as the most popular college singer and composer in Saigon, singing only of war and death; his "Yellow-Skin Songs" were sung throughout Vietnam, and he was arrested in late 1968. [Source: record sleeve and labels]
Themes
Vietnamese Perspective · South Vietnamese · Peace · Buddhism
From the release Cry of Vietnam: Three Vietnamese Voices That Cannot Be Silenced
In collections
Other Vietnamese Songs · Peace, Protest, & Anti-War Songs [War Years]