SONGS FROM THE BARDO

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Songs From The Bardo ~ Laurie Anderson, Tenzin Choegyal, Jesse Paris Smith ‎~ (full album) Tibetan Buddhism ~ Based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead (Bardo Thodal)

Year: 2019
Track list:
Homage To The Gurus 3:31
Heart Sutra Song - Gone Beyond 7:31
Awakened One 5:28
The Three Jewels 4:17
Brilliant Lights 11:13
Listen Without Distraction 5:26
Gong 1:37
Dancing With The Crescent Knife 4:26
Jigten 6:04
Natural Form Of Emptiness 6:38
Lotus Born, No Need To Fear 7:07
Dividing Line 3:50
Moon In The Water 5:15
Awakened Heart 5:09

Credits
• Vocals, songs and chants, Producer, Singing Bowls – Tenzin Choegyal
• Liner Notes – Huib Schippers (2)
• Percussion – Shahzad Ismaily
• Piano, Gong, Producer, Singing Bowls – Jesse Paris Smith
• Vocals, Violin, Producer, Arranged By – Laurie Anderson
• Cello – Rubin Kodheli

Songs from the Bardo begins with a bell ringing out once, twice, three times, as a ritualistic chant emerges from the dense silence. The collaborative composition by avant-garde icon Laurie Anderson, Tibetan multi-instrumentalist Tenzin Choegyal, and composer and activist Jesse Paris Smith is a guided journey through the visionary text of the Tibetan Book of the Dead, unfolding in an 80-minute ebb and flow of sound and words. Songs from the Bardo is a transporting experience, meant to draw the listener into the present moment and provide a framework for inner exploration. Anderson, Choegyal, and Smith fuse modern compositional techniques with the mystique of Tibetan Buddhist philosophy to make these visionary traditions more accessible to a new generation of listeners and to reveal the ancient wisdoms contained within.

https://folkways.si.edu/songs-from-the-bardo

www.tenzinchoegyal.com