Music is Life CD
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“Music is Life” track listing
Posted by Shen on 29 Nov 2008 | Tagged as: Music is Life CD
♫ Listen to a sample playlist of “Music is Life” ♫
| 1 | Beautiful Girl / Bhumo Zhema | Any face is beautiful when it carries a smile. | 4:21 |  |
| 2 | Ama | Whimsically beseeching a bird to carry a message of hope to Tibet . | 4:58 | |
| 3 | Crane Song (Ngagpey Sungkey) | Despite deep attachment, a crane cannot survive on a frozen lake. | 7:35 | |
| 4 | Tso Marpo | Blue, red, yellow and white are the colours attributed to the body, speech, heart and consciousness. | 6:57 | |
| 5 | Lotus Born | Musical homage to the great compassionate mantra “Om Ma Ni Phad May Hum” (Jewel in the Lotus). | 10:21 | |
| 6 | Little Things | The best things in life are the little things. For Isabella. | 5:58 | |
| 7 | Dawey Wola | Under the moon, sharing our thoughts and dreams. | 6:30 | |
| 8 | Jhi Chung | The bird in the Willow has the sweetest song. | 4:33 | |
| 9 | Music Is Life / Menfanh | A song about Lansana’s beautiful village in Guinea where he used to play music by the river in the evening. | 7:20 | |
Download tracks or order the CD at our online store.
Full-length streaming tracks
Posted by Shen on 29 Nov 2008 | Tagged as: Music is Life CD
- Beautiful Girl / Bhumo Zhema
Collaborative Tenzin-Marcello upbeat feelgood country-and-eastern song - Crane Song
Beautiful piece based on traditional Western Tibetan folk song
– Winner of 2008 QSong BEMAC Best World Music Award!!!
Tibet2Timbuk2 receiving the 2008 QSong BEMAC World Music Award for Crane Song
Download tracks or order the CD at our online store.
Proceeds from sales go to support the Tibetan Children’s Village in Dharamsala, India.
“Music is Life” credits
Posted by Shen on 28 Nov 2008 | Tagged as: Music is Life CD
Tibet2Timbuk2 members
- Tenzin Choegyal (vocals, dranyen and flute)
- Marcello Milani (vocals, guitar and keyboard)
- Shen Flindell (tabla and percussion)
Guest Artists
- Peter Hunt (trumpet) tracks 5,6 & 7
- Lansana Camara (vocal/kora) track 9
- Taro Terahara (bansuri) tracks 1,3 & 7
- Bronwyn Richards (backing vocals) track 7
Thank yous
We would like to thank our families for their support and for still loving us even though we got home at ridiculous hours too many times. Paola, Isabella, Bronny, Tashi and Pemma – thank you! Deep respect to Shen’s tabla guru-jis, Debu Bhattacharya and the late Pandit Kaviraj Ashutosh Bhattacharya and many thanks to all our friends.
Thanks also to the Perfect Potion who got behind the project from the beginning (Sal Battaglia & Carolyn Stubbin), Joe Malone (JLM Audio), Terika, Peter Hunt, Lansana Camara and Taro Terahara.
Special thanks to Karma Phuntsok for the original artwork and Sharon Wood for all her hard work.
Production notes
Recorded at Studio45 (2007-08)
Recorded, mixed and mastered by Marcello Milani at Studio VoxBox
Artwork by Karma Phuntsok (www.karmaart.com)
Photographs by Carolyn Stubbin
Graphic Design by Choice Creative
