TibetFeaturing: The Nyingmapa Sect, The Kagyupa Sect
Tibet I (LP)
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Gatefold sleeve with booklet stapled inside.
Peter Crossley-Holland recorded the Tibetan volumes of the UNESCO Collection among refugees in India in the years after 1959, when the monastic traditions of Lhasa were being reconstituted in Dharamsala and the Himalayan hill towns, and Tibet I is the first: monastic chant with the long trumpets, the dungchen, the cymbals and the double-reed gyaling, the overtone-heavy low chanting of the Gyütö and Gyümé monks that Western composers spent the following decades trying to reproduce.
These were the first high-quality recordings of Tibetan ritual music widely available in the West, and their influence on the drone and minimalist scenes is a matter of record. German pressing, Bärenreiter-Musicaphon BM 30 L series, booklet.
Release notes
Tracks A1 to A10: Monks of the Entchi Monastery, Gangtok, Sikkim, recorded 26. 5. 61 Tracks B11 to B13: Monks (Tibetan) of the Monastery, Rumtek, Sikkim, recorded 30. 5. 61 (track B11 with members of the (Tibetan) lay community Track B14: Monks of the Sgang-Ngon Monastery, P'hiyang, Ladak, recorded 14. 6. 61 Edited for the International Music Council by the International Institute for Comparative Music Studies and Documentation Timing Side A: 22'20" Timing Side B: 23'47" Manufactured in…
| A1 | A Chant Asking The Blessing Of The Guru Drakmar | 8:18 | |
| The Instruments Of The Monastery Orchestra | |||
| A2 | Two Shawms (Rgyaling) | 1:26 | |
| A3 | Two Long Trumpets (Dung) | 1:21 | |
| A4 | Two Shell-Trumpets Made From Conches (Dung-Dkar) | 0:30 | |
| A5 | Two Short Horns (Rkang-Ling) | 0:32 | |
| A6 | Hand-Bell (Drilbu) And Hand-Drum (Damaru) | 0:26 | |
| A7 | Cymbals (Rolmo) | 1:18 | |
| A8 | Cymbals (Silnyen) | 0:37 | |
| A9 | Pole-Drum (Rgna) | 0:28 | |
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| A10 | Ritual (For Attaining The Qualities Of) Spiritual Adepts | 7:24 | |
| B11 | The Religious Preaching (Of The Lord Buddha) Date The Fifteenth (Day Of The Fourth Tibetan Month) | 5:50 | |
| B12 | Morning Music For Shawms And Trumpets | 6:07 | |
| B13 | Evening Music For Shawms And Trumpets | 6:23 | |
| B14 | Prayer | 5:27 | |
- Nicole Marzac
- Liner Notes [Traduction]
- Martin Bente
- Liner Notes [Übersetzung]
- Alain Daniélou
- Producer [General Editor]
- Peter Crossley-Holland
- Recorded By [Recordings], Photography By [Photographs], Liner Notes [Notes]
