Choying Drolma & Steve Tibbetts - Cho

Los cánticos nasales, microtonales de las monjas tibetanas de Nagi Gompa en el Himalaya, dirigidas por Choying Drolma, se ven reforzadas por los acompañamientos compuestos por Steve Tibbets. Los instrumentos utilizados son simples campanas, tambores, guitarra, bouzouki, platillos, cello, viola da gamba, violín y bajo eléctrico. Esta música es auténtica totalmente tibetana y totalmente ajena a los oídos occidentales, con los instrumentales tenues y atonales que a menudo caen en silencio respetuosamente detrás de las monjas cantando."Cho" es un sistema de prácticas budistas contemplativas basadas en Los Sutras Prajnaparamita. (Sutras de la Perfección de la Sabiduría)


Innovative guitarist Steve Tibbetts accompanies Tibetan nun Choying Drolma on sporadic guitar, synthesizer and percussion on chants for meditation, spontaneous songs of realization and teremas brought back from the other world. For much of the disc he lets long silences unwind behind Drolma's resonant vocals before adding a thoughtful chord of his own or feeding back to her a processed sample of her own voice-a often, you can't tell which is which because Tibbets' contributions tilt toward the abstract. Overall the match between the collaborators strikes a good balance, such as on "Kyema Mimin," where he surprises by wrapping a multi-tracked chant in cymbal taps and drums, and on "Shengshik Pema Jungney," which Tibbetts' acoustic alchemy transports to a Gothic Christian space.
http://www.allmusic.com/album/cho-mw0000086806