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Songs From The Bardo

Laurie Anderson (Artist), Tenzin Choegyal (Artist), Jesse Smith (Artist) Format: Audio CD

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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.

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Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.55 x 4.92 x 0.47 inches; 3.25 ounces
Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ Smithsonian Folkways
Original Release Date ‏ : ‎ 2019
Date First Available ‏ : ‎ July 24, 2019
Label ‏ : ‎ Smithsonian Folkways
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07VFQKKJP
Country of Origin ‏ : ‎ Belgium
Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1

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Alfredo D'Agostino

Not a Typical Laurie Anderson Album

Reviewed in the United States on November 11, 2020

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Longtime fans of Laurie Anderson will want this album, a mesmerising piece ideal for meditation or relaxation. Those who are interested in her work, but are not familiar with it, should begin with one of her many other, more accessible albums. Casual listeners will no doubt find "Songs From the Bardo" to be a long, uneventful instrumental piece overlaid with repetitive chants from The Tibetan Book of the Dead - this is not a rock or pop record.

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Keith Aguiar

An amazing Meditative experience

Reviewed in the United States on December 10, 2021

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This album is so peaceful and the fusion between these different musicians working together on this piece related to the Tibetan book of the Dead is mesmerizing. I recommend if you are a Laurie Anderson fan for sure!

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Bonnie Christine

Phenominal

Reviewed in the United States on July 25, 2022

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Laurie Anderson is a National treasure. One of the most creative and talented Beings alive today.

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Orlin

It’s OK, if this is your preferred Bardo technique

Reviewed in the United States on February 22, 2021

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Not exactly what I was expecting....it has some nice soothing chanting/music but then the rhythm jumps and throws you off the serene meditative state. I purchased this CD thinking it would consist of very serene lullabies, spiritual prayers/chants and perhaps comforting hypnotic suggestions to aid someone who’s dying in their passing....soft background music of mainly strings, winds, soft spoken voices. Instead there were moments that were unsettling. This is not intended as a critique of the artists, just merely pointing out each culture is different.

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Greg Culp

Brings the Bardo alive!

Reviewed in the United States on January 20, 2022

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Laurie Anderson's voice together with the instrumentals make this recording special.

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kentman

Laurie Anderson's best collaboration.

Reviewed in the United States on March 22, 2021

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This album is a beautiful trip musically. Reminded me of Steve Tibbett's collaboration with the Tibetan Buddhist nun Choying Drolma. Great meditative music for sunny days and cool nights.

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Terrence G. Donnelly

An awesome take on a religious classic

Reviewed in the United States on September 11, 2020

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I only listened to a bit of this album before I realized that this is the sort of work you need to be in a certain mood to appreciate. Unfortunately that mood has not yet struck me.

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Andrew MacDonald

this is in the library go Congress

Reviewed in the United States on July 24, 2020

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Love this for meditation, love the authentic sound, and of course Im a big Anderson fan.
I caught her after a concert in Philadelphia necking with lou Reed on the fire escape :)

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isaac sobol

Genius

Reviewed in Canada on March 21, 2020

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Amazing. Genius. Describes the process of dying with exquisite score and vocals.

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"Laurie Anderson" interpretiert das "Tibetanische Buch der Toten"

Reviewed in Germany on March 31, 2020

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"Songs from the Bardo" beginnt mit einem Anschlagen von Glöckchen : einmal, zweimal, dreimal bevor ein Gesang aus der Stille hervortritt. Diese Kompostion ist eine Zusammenarbeit von der Avangarde-Ikone
"Laurie Anderson" mit dem tibetanischen Multiinstrumentalisten "Tenzin Choegyal" und der Komponistein und Aktivistin "Jesse Paris Smith", die sich für Umweltprojekte im Himalaya einsetzt. Die CD ist eine geführte Reise durch Passagen/Ausschnitte des "Tibetan Book of Death" das "Tibetanische Buch der Toten" über 14 Songs und einer längeren Laufzeit von über 77 Minuten. Die Musik und die Texte gesprochen von "Laurie Anderson" entfalten sich in einem Erscheinen und Abebben der Wörter und Sounds in einer Kombination von zeitgenössischen Komposition Techniken mit der antiken Tibetanischen Buddistischen Philospohie.
So wollen die Songs oder Soundgefüge eine neue Generationen zu erreichen. Das Ergebnis ist eine besondere Erfahrung für den Zuhörer der so auf eine spirituelle Reise mitgenommen werden kann.
Der Geist und das Bewusstsein erhält in der gegenwärtigen Befindlichkeit eine Rahmen der die Möglickeit in das eigene Innere zu horchen, auf das Gefühlslebn zu achten und dort auf eine Entdeckungsreise zu gehen."
(Singemäße Übersetzung von der Rückseite der CD Hülle)
In dem umfangreichen Bookelt gibt es viele Information zu den Hintergründen und den drei Beteiligten sowei auch ein kurzes Interview mit Laurie Anderson. Sie erklärt dort sinngemäß das ihr Werk generell ein Erklärung sucht was unter dem Zeitbegriff zu verstehen ist und sie auch wie wir alle keine Antwort darauf hat.
"The Bardo" ist der versuch einer Beschreibung wie wir Zeit erleben oder wir daraus eine Erfahrung mit allen Sinnen werden kann.
Ein "leises" unauffäliiges Album auf das man sich einlassen muss um es zu verstehen und vermutlich wieder ein neue Herangehensweise an die Verarbeitung der Todeserfahrung die "Laurie Anderson" durch den Tod ihrer Mutter,, ihres Hundes "Lolabelle" und ihres Ehemannes "Lou Reed" in den letzten Jahren erleben musste.

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Lamy

Complément au livre tibétain des morts

Reviewed in France on February 27, 2020

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Une autre façon de lire le le Bardo

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Mary

Learn how to live, learn how to die

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 22, 2019

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This cd is a must have for all of us who will one day die, it’s a subject we tend to find macabre in Western society, one we want to deny. It’s a cd I hopefully will have playing as I am dying. Also an be used a meditation aid at anytime.

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sylvy

Extraordinary & Exceptional

Reviewed in Australia on May 24, 2021

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For those who are interested in Buddhism and in particularly the Bardo experience at death, as is recorded in the Tibetan Book of The Dead, this is a brilliant recording.
illuminating as it is profound
daily listening, not a hard ask
A joy and wonder
Thank you, so blessed to have found this.

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