Tibetan Tantric Choir

The Gyuto Monks | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 20, 2011)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Windham Hill Records
• ASIN: B000000NIB
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #36,679 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #8 in Music > World Music > Far East & Asia > Tibet
  • #52 in Music > World Music > Far East & Asia > General
  • #52 in Music > World Music > Far East & Asia > General AAS

Editorial Reviews

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Genre: World Music
Media Format: Compact Disk
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Release Date: 6-FEB-1989

Customer Reviews

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79 of 80 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Lhasa in your home, April 12, 2000

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Pharoah S. Wail (Inner Space) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Tibetan Tantric Choir (Audio CD)

To the best of my knowledge, Western musicians never utilized (or developed or imagined) vocal overtones, although Eastern musicians of several different cultures did. Well, some Westerners have recently, but not until first becoming aware of it through exposure to the Eastern innovations.

The bullfrog analogy in the Amazon.com official review was an interesting one, but if you hate the sound of frogs pay it no attention. The monks hold long, sustained notes, sometimes solo, sometimes in unison. I've always considerd this style of overtone singing more as an ocean of droning reverberation that comes and goes, the incoming waves overlapping and absorbing the outgoing waves.

I have played this cd for unsuspecting people before and when I asked them what they thought it was they very rarely ever even think that it is possible to make this music with just human voices. This is definitely transportational music of deep human importance.

Also look into the group HUUN HUUR TU. They also do overtone singing. Both styles are technically similar in that one man sings an extremely low note and a high overtone simultaneously but stylistically the Tuvan style (HUUN HUUR TU's style) and the Gyuto style are completely different. Both equally amazing and transcendent, but both completely different.

36 of 37 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Sound with a purpose, May 12, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Tibetan Tantric Choir (Audio CD)

This is an outstanding recording and performance.
If you are familiar with "throat singing" and wish to add it to your recording collection, this is an excellent disc.
Keep a couple of things in mind:
This is a prayer, not a song.
Each singer is producing more than one note at a time.
These pieces are as much about feeling the performance as hearing it.
Enjoy.

20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best Sound Quality, July 29, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Tibetan Tantric Choir (Audio CD)

This is the one for superior sound quality. I bought their Rooftops cd after this and immediately found that one a poorer recording. Here the liner notes list by name every microphone, model and its positioning. Meticulous. Bares repeated listenings. Be warned, this is minimalism. Song number one is only voice, song two adds bone instruments. Crank up the head phones. Listen hard.