Name: Getting to Yes (from Leff Field album on herbleff.bandcamp.com) by Herb L
Duration: 4 min 44 s
Description: Another track from the album "Whimsies From Leff Field" by the Leff Field Duo (available in its entirety on my BandCamp site-- see herbleff.bandcamp.com).

This Toshey is a romantic song. 

མཚོ་སྣ་འབྲས་ཞོང་།
ཁམ་སྡོང་མཐོ་རང་དྲགས་ནས། ལག་པས་རྙོབ་ས་མ་རེད།
འབྲས་བུས་ཐུགས་བསམ་བཞེས་ནས། སྐུ་པང་ནང་ལ་བབས་ཤོག།།
ཁམ་སྡོང་མཐོན་པའི་འབྲས་བུ། སྨིན་ན་ས་ལ་གཟག་ཡོང་།
དོན་མེད་རྡོ་ཡི་བང་ཆེན། གཏོང་བ་གནང་ནས་གང་ཡོང་།།
ཁམ་སྡོང་བྲག་གཡང་མཐོ་པོར། ཨོ་ལོས་རྡོ་ཡང་མ་ཞུས།
ས་ལ་གཟག་པའི་འབྲས་བུ། བསྒྲུག་པའི་དབང་ཆ་ཡོང་ངོ།
ཁམ་བུ་ཁ་ལ་ཞིམ་པ། མེ་ཏོག་མིག་ལ་མཛེས་པ།
དོ་དགོང་ཁམ་སྡོང་འོག་ལ། བཞུགས་ཞག་གནང་རོགས་གནང་དང་།།
ཁམ་བུ་སློ་མ་གང་ལ། ལྗགས་གྲངས་གནང་གི་ཡོད་ན།
ཚུར་ལ་གནང་བའི་ཁམ་བུ། ཕར་ལ་བཞེས་རོགས་གནང་དང་།།
Musicians:
Techung: Vocal, Dranyen, Piwangs and Flute
Tsering Phuntsok: Yangchin
Recorded in Quito, Ecuador, July 9, 2022
Mixed and Mastered by: Mindruk, October 21, 2022

This recording project is part of Tibetan Music Preservation Project to record thirty five Nangmas and Toeshey. This project is funded by a grant from the New York State Council to the Arts 2022. We thank the NY Folkloric Society for facilitating this grant.

Nangma and Toeshey

Tsona Dreshong-མཚོ་སྣ་འབྲེས་ཞོང་།

Dakpa Shelri Karpo-དག་པ་ཤེལ་རི་དཀར་པོ།

དག་པ་ཤེལ་རི་དཀར་པོ། ཆོས་ཀྱི་རྩ་བ་བཙུགས་སོང་།
དག་པ་ལ་མོའི་གཙོ་བྱེད། རི་ལས་རི་བརྒྱུས་དྲན་བྱུང་།

The seed of dharma is planted
On the white Crystal Mountain
And I remember the chain of hills
Ruled by the Crystal Mountain

ཨ་སྔོན་སྤྲིན་དཀར་ཚད་ལ་བཙུགས། ས་གཞི་པདྨའི་འདོམ་ལ་མཇལ།
དམ་ཆོས་ཞུས་ནས་ལོག་འགྲོ།  གནས་གཅིག་སྐོར་ནས་ལོག་འགྲོ།

White clouds are the standard
With which to measure the earth
Let us seek the holy dharma
And return after the pilgrimages

དབྱར་ཟླ་ལྔ་པ་ཤར་སོང་། ཁུ་བྱུག་མོན་ནས་ཕེབས་བྱུང་།
ས་གཞི་པདྨའི་སྒང་ལ། ངའི་མྱུག་ལྗངས་གཡུ་ལ་འགྱུར་་སོང་།
The fifth summer month is here
And cuckoos have come from Mon
On this lotus-like field my shoots
Have turned into turquoise-like colour

This piece  is a new addition to our Thoeshey repertoire in exile. I learnt this piece via Youtube music from Lhasa.
Special thank to Tenzin Rabsel Tashi for Research
Musicians:
Techung: Vocal, Dranyen, Piwangs and Flute
Tsering Phuntsok: Yangchin
Recorded in Quito, Ecuador, July 9, 2022
Mixed and Mastered in Lake Placid, NY by: Mindruk, October 29, 2022
Tibetan to English translation by Bhuchung D Sonam

བཀྲས་ཆུང་། གཞས་པ། སྒྲ་སྙན། གླིང་བུ། པི་ཝང་།
ཚེ་རིང་ཕུན་ཚོགས། རྒྱུད་མང།
སྒྲ་འཇུག་ཞུ་མཁན་དང་སྐད་སྒྲ་སྒྲིགས་འབྱོར་བ། སྨིན་དྲུག།
སྒྲ་འཇུག་ཞུ་ཡུལ། ལྷོ་ཨ་རི་ཨེ་ཁུ་དོར་དང་ནིའུ་ཡོག།

ཨ་རི་ནིའུ་ཡོག་གྲོང་ཆུང་ལེག་པེ་ལེ་སེར་ ༢༠༢༢ ཟླ་༡༠ ཚེས་ ༢༩ སྒྲ་བསྒྲིགས་འབྱོར་ཞུས།

སྒྲ་འཇུག་འདིར་ནིའུ་ཡོག་མངའ་སྡེའི་རིག་གཞུང་ལྟི་གནས་ཁང་ནས་དཔལ་འབྱོར་རྒྱབ་སྐྱོར་གནང་བ་དང་ནིའུ་ཡོག་དམངས་འཁྲོད་རིག་གཞུང་ཁང་ནས་དེར་ལམ་སྟོན་གནང་བར་སྙིང་ཁོང་ནས་ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་ཞུ།།

Dakpa Shelri Karpo-དག་པ་ཤེལ་རི་དཀར་པོ།

འཕྱོངས་རྒྱས་ནུ་མའི་ནུ་ཆུ། ཤམ་པོ་གངས་ཀྱི་གངས་ཆུ།
འཁྲུངས་སའི་འཁྲུངས་ཡུལ་མ་གཅིག། འཛོམས་ས་སྣེ་གདོང་ཟམ་པ།

The spring waters of Chongye
And the snow waters of Shampo
Though they have difference sources
They join together at the bridge of Nedong

 ལྷོ་རོང་མོན་གྱི་ཁུ་བྱུག། ཀོང་པ་རོང་གི་ནེ་ཙོ།
འཁྲུངས་སའི་འཁྲུངས་ཡུལ་མ་གཅིག། འཛོམས་ས་སྔར་སྡོང་ཕྲ་མོ།

Cuckoos of Lhorong Mon and
The parakeets of Kongpo valley
Though born in difference places
They meet at Ngardong Tramo

 
Musicians: 
Techung:  Dranyen, Piwangs and Flute
Tsering Phuntsok: Yangchin
Recorded in Lake Placid, NY 
Mixed and Mastered by: Mindruk, 4/14/23
English translation by Bhuchung D Sonam
This is one of the new Nangma that I have learnt from Lhasa via internet. 
This recording project is part of Tibetan Music Preservation Project to record thirty five Nangmas and Toeshey. This project is funded by a grant from the New York State Council to the Arts 2022. We thank the NY Folkloric Society for facilitating this grant.

Nangtoe

Nangma Chongye-la-ནང་མ་འཕྱོངས་རྒྱས་ལགས།

Enregistrée à Saint-Lô (Normandie-France) le 17/08/2023
New Release le 30/10/2023
New release le 20/03/2024

Water Flows (Original)

Composition (Original)

Translation below
Notwithstanding the hypothesis
That she has eyes of embers
And although she attests
To be a famous pest
That this dashing speech
Nevertheless tiring

Words that sound good
Who makes it good for you
Your breasts tickle
At any age

It's thanks to the rainbow
That his mouth is honey
At the Judas tree
That she is so naked
As Voltaire said
It's not on earth

Wind in the sails
A star is beautiful
The error is a web
At any age

Entered into poetry
By homeostasis
I kiss this muse
Which in fact amuses me
And if these few words
Cause you some pain

As Diderot said
This guy is too
Notes like a pro
At any age

If it doesn't make you laugh
If it doesn't mean anything
If it makes you swoon
The pawn I defeated you
In verses today
Everyone is reduced

Half understand
Sleep in Poitiers
And get off
At any age

Hypothèse (Original)

Another track from the album "Whimsies From Leff Field" by the Leff Field Duo (available in its entirety on my BandCamp site-- see herbleff.bandcamp.com).

Getting to Yes (from Leff Field album on herbleff.bandcamp.com)

Margalla Winds

"Parashakti Saraswati   Jai Ma
Kali Ma,   Durge Ma,   Lakshmi Ma,   Shakti Ma
Om Ayeem Hreem Kleem Chamundayei Vicce Namaha"

Singers & players : Ian Koeller https://soundcloud.com/ian-koeller (drums), Patrick McAndrew https://soundcloud.com/yogipatrick (lead electric guitar), Chris Brown (lead acoustic guitar), Greg Alexander (harmonium), Isaiah Kiley (veena, flute), Simha Bode https://soundcloud.com/simha-bode (percussion), John Hunt (djembe), Benj Spound (tablas & mridanga), Charlie Braun (synth), Prem Prakash (khartals), Stephen Fortner (organ), Robbie Moonloud (piano), Robin Hanbridge https://soundcloud.com/chaga-robin (didgeridoo), Niranjan (bass, rhythm guitars).  Singers: Ambika https://soundcloud.com/lesley-ambika-gibbs, Greg Alexander, Alexandra Martin https://soundcloud.com/flybutterflyfly, Shivani, Yogi Mukti, Lisa Mase, Julia Martin, John Hunt, Sara Paton, Kayla Dewey, Savitri, Jen Canfield, Allie Bauer, Patrick McAndrew, Jesse Taylor, July Saunders, Jackie Burrell, Kathy McNames, Brandy Oswald, Simha Bode, Janaki, & Niranjan.

Mixed by Charlie Braun at "Other Side Of The Tracks Studio", Westhampton, Massachusetts (2017).  Basic rhythm tracks recorded by Kyle T. Rose at "KTR Recording", Burlington, Vermont (2014).
Music by Niranjan Arminius.  The "Chandi Mantra" (traditional).
Copyright © 2020 Niranjan Arminius

Parashakti / Chandi Mantra

Parashakti Saraswati   Jai Ma
Kali Ma,   Durge Ma,   Lakshmi Ma,   Shakti Ma
Om Ayeem Hreem Kleem Chamundayei Vicce Namaha

Players : Ian Koeller https://soundcloud.com/ian-koeller (drums), Patrick McAndrew https://soundcloud.com/yogipatrick (lead electric guitar), Chris Brown (lead acoustic guitar), Greg Alexander (harmonium), Isaiah Kiley (veena, flute), Simha Bode https://soundcloud.com/simha-bode (percussion), John Hunt (djembe), Benj Spound (tablas & mridanga), Charlie Braun (synth), Prem Prakash (khartals), Stephen Fortner (organ), Robbie Moonloud (piano), Robin Hanbridge https://soundcloud.com/chaga-robin (didgeridoo), Niranjan (bass, rhythm guitars).  Singers: Ambika https://soundcloud.com/lesley-ambika-gibbs, Greg Alexander, Alexandra Martin https://soundcloud.com/flybutterflyfly, Shivani, Yogi Mukti, Lisa Mase, Julia Martin, John Hunt, Sara Paton, Kayla Dewey, Savitri, Jen Canfield, Allie Bauer, Patrick McAndrew, Jesse Taylor, July Saunders, Jackie Burrell, Kathy McNames, Brandy Oswald, Simha Bode, Janaki, & Niranjan.

Mixed by Charlie Braun at "Other Side Of The Tracks Studio", Westhampton, Massachusetts (2017).  Basic rhythm tracks recorded by Kyle T. Rose at "KTR Recording", Burlington, Vermont (2014).
Music by Niranjan Arminius.  The "Chandi Mantra" (traditional).
Copyright © 2020 Niranjan Arminius

Parashakti / Chandi Mantra (Charlie Braun Remix)

Do Your Best

Words spoken by Maharaji, put to music (from the words of Neem Karoli Baba, known as "Maharajji". adapted by Jai Gopal, and cited in "Miracle of Love" by Ram Dass). Players & Singers: Jesse Taylor (lead guitar), Alexandra Martin (vocals), Ambika (vocals),  Robbie Moonloud (keyboards), Niranjan (vocs, bass, & rhythm guitar). Music by Niranjan Arminius (2016).

Maharaji

[NOTICE: I am now ALSO posting new albums to "herbleff.bandcamp.com"--available there for free adless casual listening and also downloadable.]
 Retired Psych prof w/ specialties in creativity, psych of art, and environmental/utopian psych; strong interest in percussion improvisation most of my life.  Now making electro-acoustic music almost full-time.  [Note on instrumentation and recording:  I have three sonically connected music studios:   (1) a basement area with acoustic and electronic drums,  marimba, synthesizers,  chimes + sundry odd percussion, and several gongs; (2) a room filled with a wide range of musical bowls (singing and otherwise), hanging chimes and gongs,  large metal drum,  tuned pipes, electronic percussion, and vibraphone + crotales set; (3) an electronic "finishing studio" with all sorts of synthesizers, my master mixer, effects devices,  a cd recorder, and two music computers.  I use several portable digital recorders (with both internal and external mics) for all acoustic recording and to sonically interconnect the three studios.  All of my recordings are built from "live" sessions with effects mostly integrated into the playing process.  I generally record a dozen or more finished cd tracks per week and periodically select some of my favorites for internet uploading.   My main goal in this is to enjoy life, grow musically, and share what I create with anyone who cares to listen.  [Update note, summer 2023:  I have recently added a pair of digital pianos that are promising to transform my  musical life.  Stay tuned, both here and on my Bandcamp site.].

Getting to Yes (from Leff Field album on herbleff.bandcamp.com)

Herb L

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