Tibet, Music of the Sacred Temples - Field Recordings by Deben Bhattacharya
[EUCD2325]

CD Information • CD Title: Tibet, Music of the Sacred Temples • Artist(s): Field Recordings by Deben Bhattacharya • CD Code: EUCD2325 • Tracks: 9 • Playing Time: 61:54 min. • Booklet Info in: English, Spanish, French, German

Field recordings from Tibetan temples: Chants and recitations and sacred temple music, played on authentic traditional instruments (e.g. dung-chen (2 metres long trumpet), gyaling (an ‘oboe’), rkan-dun (a bone-pipe made of human thigh-bones), nga (a wheel-shaped double-headed drum) etc. all described in the booklet in four languages. Total playing time: 61:54 min.

Track Listing:

1. Dhungchen - 3:38
2. Lama chhopa - 5:14
3. Reading of the Sacred Text - 2:03
4. Morning Ceremony of the Drugpa-ka-gyu Sect, Extract 1 - 16:08
5. Morning Ceremony of the Drugpa-ka-gyu Sect, Extract 2 - 5:04
6. Morning Ceremony of the Drugpa-ka-gyu Sect, Extract 3 - 7:06
7. Afternoon Ceremony of the Red Hat Sect - 5:15
8. Fire Ceremony for the Dead. Yellow Sect - 13:21

BONUS TRACK:

9. TECHUNG: Kham Lu / A Song to the Mountains (Eastern Tibetan trad.) - 3:46