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[microsound] another interesting release
I was also FWD'd this which also sounds like something that would be
found in a typical microsounders CD pile:
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TIBETAN BUDDHIST RITES FROM THE MONASTORIES OF BHUTAN
cd
SR222
barcode
5411867112228
recorded by John Levy in 1971
more than 140 minutes of the most powerful music ever recorded on earth
!
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John Levy, an englishman in Bhutan early seventies
Released by Lyrichord in mid-70', all the people who have listen to
these vinyls know
that it does'nt exist something more powerful, more prodigious and pure
than them.
John Levy was a london ethnomusicologist who took refuge in tibetan
buddhism.
So he had all the possibilities to record - with his nagra-stéreo - all
the rituals
(even the most sacred). We can say that what is discovered here is
unique and far
behond all what was done after that. All the material is fully
remastered and we
propose the Levy's collection divided into two discs of ritual and
chanting (SR222 /
rel date Jan 28, 2005) and one of instrumentals and folk music (SR230,
to be released
late 2005)
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The great power of the rituals of the Drupka and Nyingmapa Order
On the first volume, a double cd with extented notes, Rituals of the
Drupka Order,
the primary instrument is the long golden trumpet, along with various
drums and
percussion and a deep droning bass. Rather than soothingly meditative,
the music can
be a bit dissonant to Western ears. Chanted and played by 76 Lamas and
Monks with
long trumpets, shawms, cymbals, drums and other Tibetan instruments in
sacred
temples. Invited by the king of Bhutan, Levy was afforded every
facility for recording
monastic music in the principal dzongs (great fort-like monasteries) of
the Nyingmapa
Order. The ethereal Polytonal throat chanting, the long trumpets,
shawms and percussion
instruments, the processional music and spectacular mask dances,
Tibetan and
Bhutanese secular songs and poems, All reproduced with incredibly sonic
fidelity!
A truly remarkable collection, with extensive liner notes, photographs,
and musical
illustrations by John Levy.
as info, later in the year, we'll publish another volume :
Tibetan and Bhutanese Instrumental and Folk Music SR230
The last volume features performances on both Tibetan and Bhutanese
lutes and fiddles,
beautiful folksongs, and a part of a drama of Tibetan origin performed
by a troupe of yak
and cow herdsmen of eastern Bhutan. The latter is particularly
compelling, the standout
performer being Go-Te Do-Pe, who sings and accompanies himself on the
dramnyen,
a Bhutanese lute. His two songs bear an eerie resemblance to the blues
of Junior
Kimbrough and other Mississippi hill country musiciansŠ
A real blues of the top of the world.
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CD track listing
CD ONE
PART ONE
Rituals of the Drukpa Order
Band 1: In Praise of Genyen.
Band 2: Offering of "Golden Drink".
Band 3: Exhortation to the Guardian Goddess of Long Life.
Band 4: Long Trumpets, "Throat Ornament:.
Band 5: Long Trumpets, "Two Notes Prolonged".
Band 6: Invitation to Gonpo.
Band 7: Petition to Chakchen.
Band 8: Invoking Tshetro's Blessings.
Band 1: Supplication to the Buddhas.
Band 2: Aspiration to be reborn in the Western Paradise.
Band 3: Petition to Dramar.
Band 4: Prayer for Lama's Long Life.
Band 5: Large 'Mani-wheel', with mantra.
Bands 6, 7, & 8: Rite to Cure Disease, chanted by nuns.
Band 9: 'Tibetan Shawm', Processional Music.
Band 10: Processional music for shawms and percussion.
Band 11: Long Trumpets, "Auspicious Ending".
PART TWO
Sacred Dances and Rituals of the Nyingmapa and Drukpa Orders
Recorded at the Nyingmapa Monastery, Nyimalug.
Band 1: Peling Shachham, Deer Dance.
Band 2: Dramitse Ngachlam, The Drum Dance of Dramitse.
Bands 3, 4 and 5: Lama Norbu Guamtsho, Ritual dedicated to Padma
Sambhava.
CD TWO
Sacred Dances and Rituals of the Nyingmapa and Drukpa Orders (SUITE)
Recorded in the Tongsa Dzong. From the Seven Supplications to Padma
Sambhava.
Band 1: Entreaty to the Three Buddha-bodies
Band 2: Invitation to Padma Sambhava.
Band 3: Rise up, Padma.
Band 4: Words of Prayer.
Band 5: "Tibetan Shawms."
part three
Temple Rituals and Public Ceremonies
Annual Restival, drubchen, Great Tantric Attainment, in Myingmapa
Monastery at Kyichu.
Band 1: Myule Drelwa, Calling Down of deities to subjugate evil spirit;
and Kulwa, its death,
stabbed by Black Hat.
Band 2: Part of Junbeb, The Coming /down of Grace.
Band 3: Monks in procession playing portable instruments followed by
chanting
of the Heart-Drop Teaching. Recorded in Thimphu.
Band 4: Dramnyen Choshe, Song of Offering, with lute (dramnyen). Lute
solo,
followed by chorus,
in praise of sons of Bhutan.
Band 5: Dramnyen Choshe, chorus only, Song in Praise of Chinese Silk.
Annual Restival of Sacred Dance, at Jampai Lhakhang (Temple of the
Future Buddha
in Bumthang Dt., E. Bhutan).
Bands 1,2 and 3: Monks, a clown, crowds and instruments.
Band 4: End of festival, with temple bell, and drums and trumpets.
Bands 5 and 6: Wandering ascetic (manip) chanting a Milarepa poem and a
mantra.
Band 7: Cymbals (silnyen) played solo.
Band 8: Cross-flute (zurlim), folk-song from E. Bhutan.
Band 9: Another manip chanting Milarepa poem.
Band 10: First manip as story-teller.
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key points
* recorded by John Levy in 1971
more than 140 minutes of the most powerful music ever recorded on
earth !
* John Levy, who was a london ethnomusicologist, took refuge in tibetan
buddhism.
He had all the possibilities to record - with his nagra-stéreo -
all the rituals,
even the most sacred, having every facility for recording monastic
music in the
principal dzongs (great fort-like monasteries)
* Secular songs and poems, reproduced with incredibly sonic fidelity!
* de luxe packaging with slipcase
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musician
TIBETAN AND BUDDHIST RITES FROM THE MONASTORIES OF BHUTAN
ref
SR222 - 2 cd set
2CD set packaged in a slipcase
+ booklet
packed in 25 units CD boxes
shrinked
release date
January 28, 2005
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