PSYCHEDELIC SAIGON

In the late ’60s and early ’70s U.S. musicians created powerful psychedelic rock to protest the war in Vietnam. In Saigon, Vietnamese musicians, in close contact with American soldiers and their politically charged record collections, joined in the funky, raucous psychedelia and built an electrically-charged cultural underground.

“Saigon Rock & Soul: Vietnamese Classic Tracks 1968-1974” is a collection of long-lost tracks by long-lost acts like the CBC Band Loan and CBC Band and Phương Tâm.
This unexpected Saigon scene scattered after South Vietnam fell to the North in 1975; the few tracks found on “Saigon Rock & Soul” are all that remain.