Samsara (Original Soundtrack) [Soundtrack]

Dadon Dawadolma (Composer), Cyril Morin (Composer), Deyan Pavlov (Conductor), Bulgarian Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Orchestra: Bulgarian Symphony Orchestra
• Conductor: Deyan Pavlov
• Composer: Dadon Dawadolma, Cyril Morin
• Audio CD (June 22, 2004)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Soundtrack
• Label: Rasa Music
• ASIN: B00023GG44
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #195,139 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Pema's Theme

2. Maniwall

3. Four Noble Truths

4. Tashi Meets Pema

5. Kala's Theme

6. Dawa's Arrival

7. Acceptance

8. Dawa's Theme

9. Karma's Theme

10. Sujata's Theme

11. The Stick And The River

12. Tashi's Theme

13. Bumblebee

14. Tantric Drawings

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A lovely score that works well apart from the film, May 5, 2007

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Like the film for which it is written, French composer Cyril Morin's score to Samsara is delicate and beautiful, a subtle aural companion to a story of love and the search for truth. It was Morin's first score for a major feature film, the one that took his career to the next stage after many years composing for European television. Coincidentally, Morin wrote his first score for short film, 1991's Khajuraho, for Indian director Pan Nalin, who 10 years later commissioned the score for Samsara, which was also Nalin's first directorial feature.

Together the two crafted something quite amazing, a Buddhist love story about a monk named Tashi, who leaves the order for Pema, a village girl with whom he settles down to raise a family, only to discover years later that perhaps he should have stayed in the monastery. Titled after the Buddhist word for the world in which we live, the world of the physical and the sensual, Samsara is the story of how we all struggle for enlightenment.

Filmed in India's northeastern Buddhist region of Ladak, the score features many of the sounds and instruments native to that region, including chanting, Tibetan bowls, bansuri, duduk, ney, and Mongolian and Tibetan violins woven into and accentuating the orchestral work, performed here by the Bulgarian Symphony Orchestra. Morin's Samsara is one of those unique soundtracks that could exist on its own quite apart from the film for which it was written, a lovely score that rewards close listening, or which can be played unobtrusively in the background.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars samsara, July 19, 2005

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J. G. Granda Vargas - See all my reviews
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I saw the movie and the music is just as they played on it. I got what I was expecting, nice, sensible an delicate sound!

3.0 out of 5 stars I don't have received anything. I am still waiting for the CD, March 2, 2011

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V. Laurence "lavilauredelvi" (polynésie française) - See all my reviews
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I don't have received anything. I am still waiting for the CD

Pardon my english but I am french and I don't speak very well.

So I am waiting.