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Samsara (Original Soundtrack)

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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.

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!

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.

Simply magnificent. Similar in many aspects to another great soundtrack of the same period: WATER. Both become a feast to the ear. A sensorial experience difficult to forget and describe in words. Besides, the presentation of the CD is excellent, very elegant and wonderfully designed. If you're a New Age music fan, don't miss this one, It's worth paying and mostly rewarding. You won't regret it. Be sure of it.

this cd in contrary to the cd art of linving is exactly what i was hoping for. it's terrific and beautifull, in one week i listened to it every day a couplke of times. the sound and humming in some songs give you a relaxed state of mind. during a massage it's the perfect music to listen to!

This is blissful music...the tracks are so varied and yet manage to remain sublimely beautiful. Hard to find music like this.

I think Samsara is one of the best film ever made. In my opinion, a good movie is one that teach you something, helps your human beeing in evolution, helps you THINKING! And Samsara have a lot of teachings! It is not only about buddhism, it is about life, about the choices we have to make, and more than that, about the way we deal with the effects of our choices. It is always about the big choice : the hard way or the easy way, buth sometimes, it is difficult to know what is good or what is bad for your beeing. Are you strong enough to choose the hard way? No? Than find a way to get stronger, because if you dont do that, samsara (the cycle of reincarnations)is waiting for you!
And the hole movie is fully completed with the original music from Tibet. Most of the music made by a bulgarian born in Paris (:-)) ), played by a bulgarian orchestra, but it is tibetan music! So, if you saw the movie, you will want to have this original soundtrack, and if you buy the music, you will want to buy the movie too. Buy both, there is no price for what you will feel!