{"id":490452,"date":"2019-09-24T08:39:31","date_gmt":"2019-09-24T14:39:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=889410"},"modified":"2019-09-24T08:39:31","modified_gmt":"2019-09-24T14:39:31","slug":"hear-laurie-anderson-read-from-tibetan-book-of-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/hear-laurie-anderson-read-from-tibetan-book-of-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Hear Laurie Anderson Read From Tibetan Book of Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/LaurieAnderson.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/laurie-anderson\/\" id=\"auto-tag_laurie-anderson\" data-tag=\"laurie-anderson\">Laurie Anderson<\/a> and Jesse Paris Smith support Tibetan artist Tenzin Choegyal on \u201cJigten,\u201d the final track from the trio\u2019s upcoming collaboration <em>Songs From the Bardo<\/em>. On the track, Choegyal sings text from the <em>Bardo<\/em> \u2014 the Tibetan Book of the Dead \u2014 over a contemplative backdrop of <em>dranyen<\/em> (a long-necked lute), orchestral strings, and piano. It\u2019s a slow crescendo that suggests more joy than mourning in its beauty. Anderson speaks softly \u2014 \u201cAwakened one, listen without distraction\u201d \u2014 toward the end of the song. The album is due out September 27th.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe music is meant to help you float out of your body, to go into these other realms, and to let yourself do that without boundaries,\u201d Anderson wrote in the record\u2019s liner notes.<\/p>\n<p>She and her collaborators premiered the work at New York City\u2019s Rubin Museum of Art in February. In addition to the <em>dranyen<\/em>, Choegyal plays the gong, a Tibetan flute, and singing bowls on the album. Anderson speaks and plays violin. Smith plays the piano, crystal bowls, and a gong. They also teamed with cellist Rubin Kodheli and percussionist Shahzad Ismaily for the recording.<\/p>\n<p>They previously released the album\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/laurie-anderson-songs-from-bardo-862871\/\">\u201cLotus Born, No Need to Fear,\u201d<\/a> which featured more of Anderson reading from the text, specifically the <em>Bardo\u2019s<\/em> passage titled, \u201cCharacteristics of Existence in the Intermediate State.\u201d \u201cThe lords of death are the natural form of emptiness,\u201d she says on the track. \u201cYour own confused projections, and you are emptiness, a mental body of unconscious tendency.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Choegyal has said that he hopes the work honors his ancestors, since his family had to flee Tibet for India. \u201cI have tried to channel the wisdom and traditions of my ancestors through my music in a very contemporary way, while holding the depth of my lineage,\u201d he wrote in the liner notes.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/laurie-anderson-jigten-889410\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Laurie Anderson and Jesse Paris Smith support Tibetan artist Tenzin Choegyal on \u201cJigten,\u201d the final track from the trio\u2019s upcoming collaboration Songs From the Bardo. On the track, Choegyal sings text from the Bardo \u2014 the Tibetan Book of the Dead \u2014 over a contemplative backdrop of dranyen (a long-necked lute), orchestral strings, and piano. 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