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Songs from the Bardo

Laurie Anderson, Tenzin Choegyal, Jesse Paris Smith
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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.

Track Listing

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Laurie Anderson, Tenzin Choegyal, Jesse Paris Smith
03:31
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102
Laurie Anderson, Tenzin Choegyal, Jesse Paris Smith
07:31
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103
Laurie Anderson, Tenzin Choegyal, Jesse Paris Smith
05:28
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104
Laurie Anderson, Tenzin Choegyal, Jesse Paris Smith
04:17
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105
Laurie Anderson, Tenzin Choegyal, Jesse Paris Smith
11:13
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106
Laurie Anderson, Tenzin Choegyal, Jesse Paris Smith
05:27
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107
Laurie Anderson, Tenzin Choegyal, Jesse Paris Smith
01:37
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108
Laurie Anderson, Tenzin Choegyal, Jesse Paris Smith
04:26
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109
Laurie Anderson, Tenzin Choegyal, Jesse Paris Smith
06:04
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110
Laurie Anderson, Tenzin Choegyal, Jesse Paris Smith
06:38
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111
Laurie Anderson, Tenzin Choegyal, Jesse Paris Smith
07:07
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112
Laurie Anderson, Tenzin Choegyal, Jesse Paris Smith
03:50
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113
Laurie Anderson, Tenzin Choegyal, Jesse Paris Smith
05:15
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114
Laurie Anderson, Tenzin Choegyal, Jesse Paris Smith
05:09