From the organizer: Amanda Bloom is an Australian fusion pianist, composer and vocalist currently based between Phnom Penh, Cambodia and Berlin.
Her live performances, which are often just herself at a grand piano, are known to leave audiences breathless, doused with the overwhelming passion that bleeds from her voice and fingers that command her black and white muse- The Pianoforte.
She began playing piano at the age of 3 perched upon telephone books for height, wrote her first piano Sonata at the age of 6 taking out first place in “The San Francisco Young Composers Awards” and by 18 made her compositional debut at The Sydney Opera House.
Her debut album “The History of Things to Come” was self-written, arranged and self-produced in Sydney, Australia and finished in Amman, Jordan in the Middle East with members of the Amman Symphony Orchestra.
It is an intoxicating symphonic mesh of her influences Martin Kohlstedt, Tori Amos, Rachmaninov, Sade and Maria Joao, and showcases her romantic and expressive mastery of the piano as her principal tool of expression.
In a move as unconventional as her music she relocated to Phnom Penh, Cambodia where she completed her second album “Atlas” in Phnom Penh Cambodia with contributions from some of Asia’s top musicians including Lewis Pragasam and Conrad Keely across studios In Thailand and Malaysia.
The songs are intensely narrative, achingly romantic and incredibly aspirational. Themes of wanderlust, yearning for a mythical home, existential depression and lost self-love bleed with a heady mix of World and New Classical styles, but always with the powerful masterful piano at the helm.
Her music has been used in various Advertising campaigns around the world and she has played across the globe at various festivals and venues as diverse as a children’s hospital in Nablus Occupied Palestine to 40,000 at MTV Exit for Human Trafficking Cambodia.
2016 will see Amanda touring her album “Atlas” across Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong and Asia with legendary drummer Lewis Pragasam.
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★ Saigon rock fans may have come across The Lost Art, an expat band from the U.K and US that covers Vietnamese songs in a rock style. The four-piece rock/indie band consists Daniel Tooman (guitarist/vocalist), Eric Smakdab (drummer) and Luong Gia Dinh (bassist) and were later joined by blues rock veteran guitarist Jack Briggs from London three months ago.
The Lost Art will bring you passionate music in anything from 'Queens of the Stoneage' to Old Vietnamese ballads. The band gigs regularly on the Saigon live music circuit and is guaranteed to bring the ROCK.
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Time: 9pm
Free Entrance
Thursday, 31 March
9:00 pm
Saigon Ranger | 5/7 Nguyen Sieu, D1, Ho Chi Minh City
