MUSIC
Aug 21, 2019
2 minutes
Reviews editor: Vanessa Baird
Words: Louise Gray and Malcolm Lewis
Songs from the Bardo
by Laurie Anderson, Tenzin Choegyal and Jesse Paris Smith (Smithsonian Folkways, CD + digital) folkways.si.edu/folkways-recordings/smithsonian
This extraordinary album – the product of a collaboration between artist Laurie Anderson, pianist Jesse Paris Smith and the Tibetan musician Tenzin Choegyal – begins with a is an album like no other. The bell’s ring is to call listeners to attention for the voyage across the that, Tibetan Buddhists believe, each of us will one day make. The text used by the three artists comes from the (mistranslated, for historic reasons, as the Tibetan Book of the Dead) or .
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