Limitless Sky Records: Blog

A review of the Dalai Lama Renaissance Soundtrack posted on Target.com is both funny and tragic.  The reviewer has not read any material on the album, nor has he listened to it, but his review is published anyway.  Here it is:

"The soundtrack features prayers, chants, and excerpts of teachings by Tibetan Buddhist monks, electronic ambient music, Native American poetry, song and dance, and narration by Ford in places. As a disc for simply listening, it works just fine, but heard in the context of seeing the film, it is delightful" -Thom Jurek, All Music Guide

If any of you have an inside track to Target.com, perhaps you could alert them to the fact that this CD has no "electronic ambient" music, there is no "Native American poetry", the "teachings" are by HH Dalai Lama only and prey tell, what is "song and dance"?! 

This sort of ignorance and blatant disregard has so many of us lumped into to "world music", a category encompassing ANYTHING that is not Western music.

That said, we are still thankful that the CD is carried by such a huge retailer - thanks to White Swan Records!

We are also thankful for the reviews we have received, most especially when they are penned by writers who have actually listened to the disc and know what type of material they are reviewing - not just riffing off of the description on the back cover and making erroneous assumptions.