Maillist
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- Tibetan Buddhist Rites From The Monastories Of Bhutan
- Format: CD Album
- Catalogue Number: SR222
- Number of Discs: 1
- Label: Sub Rosa
- Release Date: 12 April 2010
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PRICE: £13.99
Tibetan Buddhist Rites From The Monastories Of Bhutan
2CD set packaged in a slipcase + 2 booklets (24 pages and 32 pages). Recorded by John Levy in 1971 more than 140 minutes of the most powerful Tibetan music ever recorded. 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.
Track Listing
Disc One
1. In Praise of Genyen
2. Offering of Golden Drink
3. Exhortation to the Guardian Goddess of Long Life
4. Long Trumpets: Throat Ornament
5. Long Trumpets: Two Notes Prolonged
6. Invitation to Gonpo
7. Petition to Chakchen
8. Invoking Tshetro's Blessings
9. Supplication to the Buddhas
10. Aspiration to Be Reborn in the Western Paradise
11. Petition to Dramer
12. Prayer for Lama's Long Life
13. Large Mani-Wheel with Mantra
14. Rite to Cure Disease: Nuns, Punkha, Pt. 1
15. Rite to Cure Disease: Nuns, Punkha, Pt. 2
16. Rite to Cure Disease: Nuns, Punkha, Pt. 3
17. Processional Music: Tibetan Shawms
18. Processional Music: Shawms and Percussion
19. Long Trumpets: Auspicious Ending
20. Peling Shachham (Deer Dance)
21. Dramitse Ngachham (The Drum Dance of Dramitse)
22. Lama Norbu Guamtsho, Pt. 1
23. Lama Norbu Guamtsho, Pt. 2
24. Ritual Dedicated to Padma Sambhava
Disc Two
1. Entreaty to the Three Buddha-Bodies
2. Invitation to Padma Sambhava
3. Rise Up, Padma
4. Words of Prayer
5. Tibetan Shawms
6. Myule Drelwa, Calling Down of Deities to Subjugate Evil Spirit; ...
7. Part of Junbeb, The Coming/Down of Grace
8. Monks in Procession Playing Portable Instruments Followed by ...
9. Dramnyen Choshe, Song of Offering, With Lute (Dramnyen). Lute ...
10. Dramnmyen Choshe, Chorus Only, Song in Praise of Chinese Silk
11. Monks, a Clown, Crowds, Pt. 1
12. Monks, a Clown, Crowds, Pt. 2
13. And Instruments
14. End of Festival, with Temple Bell, Drums and Trumpets
15. Wandering Ascetic
16. (Manip) Chanting a Milarepa Poem and a Mantra
17. Cymbals (Silnyen) Played Solo
18. Cross-Flute (Zurlim), Folk Song from E. Bhutan
19. Another Manip Chanting Milarepa Poem
20. First Manip as Storyteller
