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- Tibetan and Bhutanese Instrumental and Folk Music
- Format: CD Album
- Catalogue Number: SR230
- Number of Discs: 1
- Label: Sub Rosa
- Release Date: 12 April 2010
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The second volume -- of a projected four -- in Sub Rosa's reissue of John Levy's historic 1971 field recordings from Bhutan centers around less religious -- though no less spiritually moving -- music. Tibetan and Bhutanese Instrumental and Folk Music includes fine examples of social music for instruments and voices. There are Bhutanese seven-string lutes (called dramnyen), whistle flutes, folk songs from the Chhokhor, Bumthang, Tongsa (songs by groups of men, and followed by a group of women), Paro, and eastern Tibet. There are songs by yak herdsmen, dance songs with cymbals and drum accompaniment, two-string fiddle tunes, and an oracle's dance for welcoming important guests with Tibetan lutes and drums. Lest anyone reading this think it would be boring to hear this music, think again. This is not only strange, it's utterly compelling. Impeccably recorded and painstakingly remastered from the Lyrichord masters, this music is haunting, majestic, full of integrity and goodwill. Bhutan is a consciously guarded county from the outside world, much in the same way Tibet was before World War II. Visitors are restricted in number. Levy was invited to Bhutan by its King to document the musical traditions of his nation. What he discovered there was a music out of time; otherworldly because it was. Bhutan's folk music and the sounds and rituals performed in the country's Tibetan Buddhist Monasteries had rarely, if ever, been visited by a Westerner, and it is presented here with care. Given how truly strange and frightening some of the Buddhist ritual music can be to the uninitiated, this would be a perfect place to begin for a listener interested in the ancient indigenous musical traditions of the Himalayan region. ~ Thom Jurek
Recorded by john levy in 1971 and relased by lyricord in the mid '70s this comprise the secon part of levy's whole entreprise: to capture not only the sacred music of the tiberan ritual in Bhutan, but all aspects of the native fokl usic as well John Levy was a LOndon enthnomusicologist who took refuge in tiberan and buthan album of ritual and chanting, and features perform ances on both Tiberan and Bhutanese lutes and fiddeles, beautiful fokl song and a part of a drama of Tiberan original performed by a troupe of yak and cow herdsmen of eastern Bhutan The latter is particular compeling the standout performer being Go-Te-Do-Pe, who sings and accompanies himself on the dramnyen ,a Bhutane lute His two songs bear an eerie resemblance to the blues of Junior Kimbrough and other missippi hill country musicians this is real blues from the top the world.Forcedx.2006The Wire (p.64) - "Levy's recordings provide a window onto a culture that appears timeless yet curiously not of our time."
Track Listing
1. Tashi Laso, At the Top of Lucky Valley - Various Artists
2. Ada le O, In Dongkar Chodren (In Tibet) - Various Artists
3. Tuning of the Bhutanese Dramnyen - Various Artists
4. Dramnyen Solo, Lhasa Norbuling La - Various Artists
5. Dong Lim - Various Artists
6. Pilgrim's Song - Various Artists
7. Gesar Janglu Jombe Gang - Various Artists
8. Bem - Various Artists
9. Palaces of Gesar's Family, The - Various Artists
10. Pawo, Oracles' Song and Dance - Various Artists
11. Tibetan Dramnyen - Various Artists
12. Tibetan Fiddle - Various Artists
13. Tibetan 2-String Fiddle - Various Artists
14. Folk Song From Eastern Tibet - Various Artists
15. Folk Song From Chhokhor - Various Artists
16. Ura Gi Ache Lhamo With Drums - Various Artists
17. Folk Song From Nub - Various Artists
18. Folk Song by Women in Nub - Various Artists
19. Folk Song by Tsewang Lhamo of Paro - Various Artists
20. Ache Lhamo Dance of the Goddess - Various Artists
