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Phaedra: Blackwinged Night - VINYL LPTitle: Blackwinged Night Artist: Phaedra Label: Rune Grammofon Product Type: VINYL LP UPC: 7033660031728 Genre: Rock Release Date: 2016 08 12 Number of Discs: 1 LP version. Phaedra's 2011 debut album, The Sea (RCD 2107 CD RLP 3107 LP), received fantastic international reviews in magazines as diverse as The Wire, Uncut, Shindig, and Prog, which drew lines to Vashti Bunyan, Elizabeth Fraser, and Nico. The Chicago Reader said, this is one of the
Title: Blackwinged NightArtist: Phaedra
Label: Rune Grammofon
Product Type: VINYL LP
UPC: 7033660031728
Genre: Rock
Release Date: 2016-08-12
Number of Discs: 1
LP version. Phaedra's 2011 debut album, The Sea (RCD 2107 CD/RLP 3107 LP), received fantastic international reviews in magazines as diverse as The Wire, Uncut, Shindig, and Prog, which drew lines to Vashti Bunyan, Elizabeth Fraser, and Nico. The Chicago Reader said, this is one of the loveliest, most striking albums, unlike anything I've heard in years. Blackwinged Night is the follow-up, and the second album in a trilogy, a lyrical and musical cycle with it's own mythological structure. From the ethereal folk universe of the debut, Blackwinged Night dives into a darker dream-pop underworld, where acoustic elements of woodwinds, strings, and marimba are mixed with layers of analog synths, bigger drums, and darker basslines. Vocals are as crystal-clear and haunting as ever, with lyrics circling around themes like creation and collapse, time and falling stars. Phaedra is Ingvild Langgard, singer, composer, and artist. Educated at The Academy of Fine Art in Oslo, Norway, she composes music for the stage and screen in addition to her art projects with sound, video, and installations. In cooperation with choreographer Ingri Fiksdal and scenographer Signe Becker she created the acclaimed dance performances Orchard Ballads and Night Tripper. Night Tripper won the Oslo Award in 2012, has since toured extensively in Europe, and had it's US premiere in April 2014; The Guardian called it an extraordinary piece, simple yet powerfully affecting. Blackwinged Night is produced by Langgard herself, with contributions from Christian Engfelt, who also mixed the album. There are contributions from Ensemble neoN members Kristine Tjogersen, on clarinet, and Yumi Murakami, on flute. Last heard on Motorpsycho's en Konsert For Folk Flest (RLP 2170 LP, 2015), Kari Ronnekleiv plays violin and Ole-Henrik Moe is on viola. Last but not least, there's Langgard's regular band; Gunhild Mathea Olaussen on violin, Jorn Tore Egseth on bass and keyboards, and Ane Marthe Sorlien Holen on drums, percussion, marimba, and vibraphone. Mastered by the legendary Greg Calbi at Sterling Sound.
Tracks:
1.1 Lightbeam
1.2 Too Much Sugar
1.3 Half Human
1.4 Blackwinged Night
1.5 The Void
1.6 Mend Me
1.7 Finally Unfolding
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Snuggle bug
My son loves to snuggle with this. And the binkie attachment piece is a plus!
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Reviewed in the United States on March 20, 2026
★★★★★ 5
Good
Format: Paperback
Got it for my class reading (not surprising tho, the book was great). Quick delivery and great packaging.
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Reviewed in the United States on May 10, 2026
★★★★★ 5
Valuable perspective; moving; beautiful
Format: Hardcover
I loved this book. I devoured the entire thing in one sitting on a Sunday afternoon. It's a beautiful and tragic and warm story all at the same time. I feel like a lot of times when we hear about the Vietnam war in the United States, it's told from the perspective of American soldiers rather than the Southern Vietnamese who lost their home land. Really refreshing to see this diverse and nuanced perspective. I look forward to Thi Bui's future works.
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Reviewed in the United States on August 23, 2022
★★★★★ 5
This book healed me
Format: Paperback
Beautifully written and illustrated. Although Thi Bui and I have astronomically different life experiences, I still found I could relate on a deeply personal level. This book taught me empathy and forgiveness at a time in my life where I struggled to have it. Bui nailed the complicated feelings and emotions that comes with confronting abuse, abusers (who happen to be your parents), and the painful impact of generational trauma on both the parent and child.
Highly recommend this book to anyone who is on a path of healing their own broken heart.
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Reviewed in the United States on June 16, 2023
★★★★★ 4
Powerful Family History
Format: Paperback
After the birth of her son, Thi Bui feels an increased sense of urgency about learning the stories of her own parents. Like all but her youngest sibling, she was born in Vietnam, though the children came of age in the United States. While the war itself haunts all of them, was the reason they left their homeland, the wounds her parents bear go far beyond the military conflict. This was only the second graphic novel I’ve ever read (both have been memoirs), and like the first was also selected by my book club. I feel like the limitations of the format mean it will always be a less preferred one for me, because I found myself wanting more words, more depth to the writing itself. But the story is deeply compelling, detailing her father’s brutal childhood, her mother’s much softer one, how they came together, and how the Vietnam War disrupted the future they thought they might have. It’s not as straightforward as “Americans bad”, and Bui is not afraid of the moral ambiguity of that time and place, where the best interests of the majority of the Vietnamese people was an open question for larger forces that seemed to have little room for consideration of what might have actually made regular lives easier to lead. And apart from the larger geopolitical machinations around them, the family had their own share of tragedy, including the death of their first child and a later stillbirth. But three living children and another on the way was enough for her parents to make frantic arrangements to leave, finally succeeding and eventually making their way to the United States. But of course, that was not the end of their story, just the beginning of a new chapter. Bui’s childhood as she depicts it makes it clear that it wasn’t the stuff dreams are made of, but what shines through is her tremendous empathy for her parents and how they became the people she experienced them as. Overarching the narrative is a meditation on parenthood, as it is the birth of her own child that inspires her to ask her parents more. They might have made major mistakes, but it is clear that they loved their children and did what they thought was best for them, making countless sacrifices to give them the best opportunities possible, even if that love was not always shown the way that they wanted and needed to feel it. Vietnamese perspectives on the war in their country were not something I was exposed to growing up (honestly the Vietnam War itself wasn’t something I remember being taught with particular rigor in high school apart from its connection to electoral politics), and I appreciated learning more about the history of the country and how the people who actually lived through the conflict thought about it. Even though this is not my preferred format, I think Bui uses it well to engage in some non-linear storytelling and to very literally illustrate what she’s trying to get it, like the way she parallels the way her relatively rural parents must have felt seeing Saigon for the first time with the way she felt when she first moved to New York, a sense of awe and possibility. It’s a powerful, moving work and I would recommend picking it up!
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Reviewed in the United States on February 3, 2026