Tibetan Bells [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED]

Henry Wolff & Nancy Hennings

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 1, 2001)
• Original Release Date: April 1, 1972
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording remastered
• Label: Vajra
• ASIN: B00005BHW3
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #133,545 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Track Listings

1. Khumbu Ice-Fall

2. Rainbow Light

3. White Light

4. From the Roof of the World you can see forever

5. Wrathful Deity

6. Clear Light

7. A Choir of Bells

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

If ever a recording was made for the CD medium, it's Tibetan Bells. Originally released in 1972 on Island Records, it has taken nearly 30 years for this influential recording to make its way to compact disc, but it's worth the wait. Henry Wolff and Nancy Hennings use Tibetan bells, gongs, and singing bowls to orchestrate crystalline echoes of the mind. There are no tunes or melodies here; rather, this is a shimmering aurora borealis of sound that's diaphanous and reverberant, like windows opening up into an altered state of sound. High chimes ring against a backdrop of sustained glissando from a singing bowl. Deep gongs call out from a hidden abyss. Released in the waning days of psychedelia, Tibetan Bells was the deep chill ambient album of its time. Decades later, it resonates. --John Diliberto

Product Description

This album is a digital re-mastering of the original Tibetan Bells released in London, England 1972, the legendary "underground classic". A milestone recording event, this superb state-of-the-art CD makes available for the first time the full wealth of sound captured by the 1972 studio master tapes. For, it is a surprising fact that this premier of the celebrated Tibetan Bells series that grew in time to the world-celbrated cycle, has never unitl now appeared in a format other than the outmoded vinyl LP. That shortcoming is made good at last by this present Tibetan Bells millenium album. Not quite a new recording, but far more thant the "old", this brilliantly re-mastered CD restores the pristine textures and the unheardshades of an elusive music living on the remote edge of the audible. Thus after a quarter century and more there is now obtainable the single record long famed for defining the music now known as "New Age" -- the soundscape of a re-invented consciousness.

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Perfection of tone, September 21, 2002

By A Customer

Ideal for meditation, directed energy work. Promotes stillness of the heart and soul.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Sea of Immortality, March 3, 2002

By	Gerry O'neill (Morrisville, NC United States) - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

Listening to this Cd in a darkened room with Chinese insense sticks one is almost transported to another world.

Turn off your mind, relax and float downstream sang John Lennon some six years before this album was recorded. This music transcends boundaries and defies description. It has a timeless quality almost irridescent except you cannot see it.

The listener almosts gasps at the perfection of the sounds that seem to hang in the air.

This music is a joy to listen to, a joy to experience. You cannot say much about it but you can feel it with your mind and body.

What an experience!

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Loud clashing drum sounds ruin the bells, June 1, 2005

By	*** "a reader" (USA) - See all my reviews

Years ago I used the original of this work for meditation.
This remastering ruins the original and in my opinion is totally unsuitable for meditation. Try Tibetan Bowls instead.
The item was returned for resale.