Biography

NS Khong Phai is a musician and researcher who works with various musical instruments from Southeast Asia. He researches folk music, and has learned about traditional musical instruments from local artists in Southeast Asia. In Vietnam in particular, he learned folk music from notable musicians of various ethnic communities such as Kinh, Cham, Jrai, Ede, Raglai, Thai, H’mong, and more. He owns a diverse collection of folk music instruments, gathered on various research trips, that include wind instruments, reed pipes, free reed instruments, percussions, and strings. His own music idea is to engage these rare instruments in today’s music scene to extend the possibilities of music.