Songs from the Bardo

Awakened One

unseen:                     your call

Alternative, pop, indie, new artist, love, sad songs, guitar

I’ll Be There (Memory)

6. Winter Wheat

Background, context, and letter text: https://www.brainpickings.org/2016/03/25/patti-smith-robert-mapplethorpe-letter/

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Patti Smith reads her letter to Robert Mapplethorpe

Little Heart - Harold Budd

From 'Songs from the Bardo', out 9/27/2019

https://folkways.si.edu/laurie-anderson/tenzin-choegyal/jesse-paris-smith/songs-from-the-bardo

Laurie Anderson, Tenzin Choegyal, Jesse Paris Smith - Lotus Born, No Need to Fear

"Jigten" from 'Songs of the Bardo' by Laurie Anderson, Tenzin Choegyal, Jesse Paris Smith, out 9/27/2019 on CD, LP, Digital, and Streaming on Smithsonian Folkways Recordings: orcd.co/songsfromthebardo

'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 - Jigten

If You Could Touch Her at All

So Long, Marianne

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