Release date:
September 27, 2019
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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.

Tracklist:
  • 1. Homage to the Gurus
  • 2. Heart Sutra Song - Gone Beyond
  • 3. Awakened One
  • 4. The Three Jewels
  • 5. Brilliant Lights
  • 6. Listen Without Distraction
  • 7. Gong
  • 8. Dancing with the Crescent Knife
  • 9. Jigten
  • 10. Natural Form of Emptiness
  • 11. Lotus Born, No Need to Fear
  • 12. Dividing Line
  • 13. Moon in the Water
  • 14. Awakened Heart