2006 Music Album

Sun Samples

Piano Minimal

New Sample Time

Mick's House

Lydia (lydia n daddy)

Sunset (ids - 3)

Echolocation (ids - 2)

Night Flight (ids - 1)

Afternoon at Dewey (dewey beach)

RELEASE. FORGIVE.
A Soundscape for Dying (with Buddhist Sutras)

by Marcella Trowbridge and Joseph Getter
2020

Marcella Trowbridge — voice, original texts, traditional chants
Joseph Getter — bamboo flute, frame drums, singing bowls, bells, harmonium, and field recordings from India and Nepal (1994-95) and United States (2020)

Death comes to us all. We know this, but it may not make death any less mysterious or frightening. By offering this meditative recording, we seek to support those transitioning through death, and also their loved ones and caregivers. 

As friends and artistic collaborators for fifteen years, we are honored and delighted to co-create this piece together, and humbled to be in service of those experiencing dying and the death process.

This recording is partly soundscape, musical expression, text, ritual, and meditation. Marcella brings her voice to original meditative writings, classic Tibetan Heart and Medicine Buddha sutras, and vocal explorations of inter-being. Joseph plays several instruments with techniques from the music of India along with the intention of creating sound as a healing modality. The field recordings from Asia date to his travels there in 1994-95, and include temple bells and sounds from Boudhanath, Nepal and Madurai, India, as well as environments of rivers, streams, birds and crickets from the foothills of the Himalaya of Nepal, from Vulture Peak in India where the Buddha taught the Heart Sutra, and elsewhere. There are also recordings made in 2020 of a river in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, a stream in Massachusetts, and of rain in Connecticut. 

May the journey at the end of life be one of ease, forgiveness and release. We both have an abiding connection to the teachings of Buddhism, and offer this work so that all beings may be happy and free from suffering. 

- Marcella and Joseph

RELEASE. FORGIVE. A Soundscape For Dying (with Buddhist Sutras)

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