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Tibetan Buddhist Rites from the Monasteries of Bhutan

by Recorded by John Levy in 1971

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More than 140 minutes of the most powerful
Tibetan music ever recorded. Mythic recordings
by John Levy.

John Levy, an Englishman in Bhutan, early seventies. Released by Lyrichord in the mid-'70s, all the people who have listen to these vinyls know that there isn't something more powerful, more prodigious and pure than them. John Levy was a London ethnomusicologist who took refuge in Tibetan Buddhism. So he had all the possibilities to record - with his Nagra stereo - all the rituals (even the most sacred). We can say that what is discovered here is unique and far beyond all that was done after that. All the material is fully remastered, and we propose the Levy's collection divided into two volumes: one of rituals and chanting (SR222, 2005) and one of instrumentals and folk music (SR230, 2005).

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released August 1, 2020

The great power of the rituals of the Drupka and Nyingmapa Order. On the first volume, a double cd with extented notes, Rituals of the Drupka Order, the primary instrument is the long golden trumpet, along with various drums and percussion and a deep droning bass. Rather than soothingly meditative, the music can be a bit dissonant to Western ears. Chanted and played by 76 lamas and monks with long trumpets, shawms, cymbals, drums and other Tibetan instruments in sacred temples. Invited by the King of Bhutan, Levy was afforded every facility for recording monastic music in the main dzongs (great fort-like monasteries) of the Nyingmapa Order. The ethereal polytonal throat chanting, the long trumpets, shawms and percussion instruments, the processional music and spectacular mask dances, Tibetan and Bhutanese secular songs and poems, all reproduced with incredible sonic fidelity. A truly remarkable collection, with extensive liner notes, photographs, and musical illustrations by John Levy.

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Sub Rosa Label Brussels, Belgium

Record and production company managed by Guy Marc Hinant and Fred Walheer - releasing records in Electronics/ Experimental/ Unclassical/ Drone/ Noise/ Concrete/ Spoken Words/ Rare recordings/ Rituals genres.

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