Streets Of Lhasa, by Various Artists

Streets Of Lhasa

by Various Artists

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1.	Father/Son Vocal With Erhu 05:06	buy track
2.	Female Vocal 02:12	buy track
3.	San Xian With 3 Vocals 02:04	buy track
4.	Streets Of Lhasa #1 02:22	buy track
5.	Child Vocal 00:43	buy track
6.	Erhu Solo 02:32	buy track
7.	Prayer 04:25	buy track
8.	San Xian With Vocal 01:57	buy track
9.	Vocal Duet 00:33	buy track
10.	Bian Jing 11:56	buy track
11.	Father/Son Vocal With Erhu #2 02:58	buy track
12.	San Xian With Vocal #2 02:35	buy track
13.	Train 01:19	buy track
14.	Solo Vocal 01:03	buy track
15.	Erhu W/ Vocal 02:44	buy track
16.	San Xian With Vocal #3 01:31	buy track
17.	Streets Of Lhasa #2 01:22	buy track
18.	San Xian With Vocal #4 01:28	buy track
19.	Peace On Top Of The World 09:28	buy track

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“Streets of Lhasa” lifts us to the high plateau of Tibet where anonymous street balladeers sell folk songs for a living and ghostly voices drift in an ambience of time forgotten. Children, birds, trains, prayers and a traditional temple activity called "bian jing" (where monks discourse about scripture and punctuate their points by clapping loudly) provide the backdrop for this disc with the folk music of the street taking center stage. These enterprising musicians sing passionate songs and play instruments like the “Erhu” and the “San Xian”. The recordings are as clear as the strings of these banjo and violin-like instruments scathed by leather fingers of the high, thin air. Tibet has been under Chinese control for nearly half a century and their leader, The Dalai Lama, resides in exile to the south in Dharamsala India. Bhuddism remains of primary importance here and chants of song and prayer are heard throughout the plateau. This ornamental carnival of sound was recorded by Zhang Jian (of the Beijing-based sound collective “fm3”) on the streets of Lhasa, ZhaDa and Shigatse in August 2003.

Liner notes written by Steve Barker (ON THE WIRE/BBC).

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released March 16, 2010

This ornamental carnival of sound was recorded on the streets of Lhasa, ZhaDa and Shigatse in August 2003.

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Sublime Frequencies Seattle, Washington

SUBLIME FREQUENCIES is a collective of explorers dedicated to exposing obscure sights and sounds from modern and traditional urban and rural frontiers via film and video, field recordings, radio and short wave transmissions, international folk and pop music, sound anomalies, other forms of human and natural natural expression not documented sufficiently enough by various communication channels. ... more