Rough Guide to Music of the Himalayas
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Edition: Music CDCD Release Date: 2002-07-01
Music Label: World Music Network
Soundtracks:
- Ngani Troma Part 1 (Tibet) - Steve Tibbetts
- Pahadi (India) - Hariprasad Chaurasia
- Gurans Ko Phool Siuri (Nepal) - Krishna Das & The Modern Light Music Brass Band
- Gaden Lhagya (Tibet) - Nuns From Jangchub Cheling Nunnery
- Kyamdro Semkye (Tibet) - Choying Drolma
- Lekdri Ma (Tibet) - Monks From Drete Dhargon At Drepung Monastery
- Fire Channels. Me (Tibet) - Hooked Light Rays
- Dar Tson Nanga (Tibet) - Petso
- Music For Archery (Ladakh) - Ladakhi Musicians
- Ling Sho La (Bhutan) - Jigme Drukpa
- Mew Dyahlhaygu (Nepal) - Nepali Musicians
- Dong Lim (Tibet) - Do-Pe
- Himalayas (China) - Joji Hirota
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Free Music Review: A Himalayan Trek through Multifarious Musical Moods
Hit: 5 Stars
The good ol' Rough Guide series, reliable as ever, and they've proven it again with this fine CD. The music on this album is incredible and wide-ranging: from subtle and refined Buddhist chants to exuberant and percussive festival tunes, from folkish flute airs in isolated valleys to streamlined studio collaborations with Western musicians, with hints of many different musical cultures converging and swirling in this mountainous region. Don't expect uniformity from this CD. Just sit back and allow yourself to be taken on a far-flung musical tour of the Himalayan Mountains' wonderful variety of sounds and moods.
Ken Hunt's liner notes are nicely written and do a wonderful job of contextualizing each track in a clear, succinct fashion. His style manages to get in just the right amount of detail for the listener's music appreciation without getting bogged down and ponderous; the tone shows the same sense of balance, enthusiastic but not gushy, reverent but with little flashes of wit. And, unlike some of the newer Rough Guide CDs coming out, the descriptions are clearly subdivided and arranged in the same order as the tracks on the CD, so one can follow along with ease (except that tracks 1 and 5 are by the same artists, which threw me for just a second). And that's the point after all, to allow the listener to better enjoy and appreciate the excellent music on this fine CD.
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