ossory
Ho Chi Minh City has two names, and everyone still uses the older one, Saigon. This duet walks the whole city, from Cu Chi's cassava rows to Can Gio's hand-replanted mangroves, past Cho Lon's herb jars and weavers' looms, to a canal that stopped being a sewer and broken rice nobody could sell that half the city now queues for.
The Airport Still Says Saigon
Style
Traditional Vietnamese don ca tai tu chamber music, entirely acoustic at a fast 144 BPM, led by moon lute, zither, monochord, fiddle, bamboo flute and a sliding scalloped-fret guitar over a barrel drum, sung as an equal male-female duet in a warm, sincere Saigon-accented English.