Format | Audio CD |
Ordering Number | SFW40583 |
Barcode | 093074058329 |
label | Smithsonian Folkways |
Release date | 18/10/2019 |
salesrank | 119 |
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.
CD 1- 1.Homage to the Gurus03:31
- 2.Heart Sutra Song - Gone Beyond07:31
- 3.Awakened One05:28
- 4.The Three Jewels04:17
- 5.Brilliant Lights11:13
- 6.Listen Without Distraction05:27
- 7.Gong01:37
- 8.Dancing with the Crescent Knife04:26
- 9.Jigten06:04
- 10.Natural Form of Emptiness06:38
- 11.Lotus Born, No Need to Fear07:08
- 12.Dividing Line03:50
- 13.Moon in the Water05:15
- 14.Awakened Heart05:09
- Total:01:17:34