Songs from The Bardo – Laurie Anderson, Tenzin Choegyal, Jesse Paris Smith (2 LP)

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.

Laurie Anderson, Tenzin Choegyal, Jesse Paris Smith

Homage to the Gurus
03:31

Heart Sutra Song – Gone Beyond
07:31

Awakened One
05:28

The Three Jewels
04:17

Brilliant Lights
11:13

Listen without Distraction
05:27

Gong
01:37

Dancing with the Crescent Knife
04:26

Jigten
06:04

Natural Form of Emptiness
06:38

Lotus Born, No Need to Fear
07:07

Dividing Line
03:50

Moon in the Water
05:15

Awakened Heart
05:09