Coming Home [Import]

Yungchen Lhamo | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 20, 1998)
• Original Release Date: October 20, 1998
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Emd Int'l
• ASIN: B00000DCKM
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #70,359 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #13 in Music > World Music > Far East & Asia > Tibet

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com's Best of 1998

Make no mistake: Yungchen Lhamo's second RealWorld album, Coming Home--dedicated to His Holiness the Dalai Lama--is deeply personal, political, and powerful. With Hector Zazou producing and, for the first time, orchestral accompaniment, the Tibetan exile's music takes on the intangible spaciness of world-groove trance dance tracks. The lyrics, however, are firmly rooted in messages of the heart and the importance of home, to which Lhamo hopes to return. --Cristina Del Sesto

Product Description

This second album from Tibet's most extraordinary voice, produced by Hector Zazou, frames Yungchen Lhamo's stunning songs of freedom and beauty out of sorrow with delicately ambient instrumentation, a departure from her earlier a cappella recordings. Yungchen Lhamo fled Tibet - on foot across the Himalayas with her child in her arms - to freedom in the Dalai Lama's exile community in Dharamsala, India. Today, based in New York City, she continues to sing on behalf of the Tibetan cause with the express blessing of His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Real Word. 2009. --This text refers to an alternate Audio CD edition.

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Customer Reviews

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Tibet's finest singer's finest album, November 6, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Coming Home (Audio CD)

Coming Home is Yungchen Lhamo's third album. The first was only available in Australia and having heard it I can tell you it was much better than the re-recorded effort by RealWorld. Coming Home is Yungchen Lhamo's best album. At first I thought she might have just been an exotic voice from a mystic country but this album shows that not only does she have a unique and overwhelmingly beautiful voice but that she is a highly talented songwriter as well. I have seen her in concert where she sings acappella, so it is a shock at first to hear her with full musical accompianment but she has been able to blend her voice and her songs with a fine touch to some great western sounds. Really, this is the meaning of world music, a talented singer songwriter marrying her traditional roots with worldwide elements.

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars easternmusiclover, July 17, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Coming Home (Audio CD)

Yungchen Lhamo is exquisite. A miraculous voice of such expression that words do not convey the beauty of it. This album has gorgeous songs on it, without doubt. I give it only four stars due to the heavy popflavored tacky production and accompaniment. Why could we have not had someone senstive to the acoustic possibilities of this marvelous voice and esthetic arrange this album. It has ruined most of the songs for me. Too heavy, too western, too slanted toward making a buck at the expense of this natural wondrous woman.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Truly Special, April 8, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Coming Home (Audio CD)

This is a cd that won't disappoint anyone that loves a good voice (phenomenal voice), deeply moving music, and, a very good technical recording to enhance the whole experience. Being Tibetan, Yungchen Llamo will shock new listeners with a crystal clear, spiritually powerful voice that is uncommon in western music. It is music worth owning.