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DALAI LAMA RENAISSANCE: SOUNDTRACK ALBUM
At the edge of the millennium, the Dalai Lama invited 40 leading thinkers to his residence in the Dharamsala, India to discuss the Worlds problems and how we can solve them. What happened was surprising and unexpected.
This Soundtrack CD features teachings from the Dalai Lama & narration by Harrison Ford, taken from the film and set to original music from:
Preeminent Tibetan folk & freedom musician Techung
Roop Verma, protege of the legendary Ravi Shankar & Ali Akbar Khan
Iranian Sufi Heyraneh
Tibetan Chod master Lama Wangdu Rinpoche
Indian fusion group Yoginis
Score composers Medicine Bear Reid & Michel Tyabji
Special guest Larry Mitchell, Grammy winning producer and guitarist
Their beautiful music is skillfully blended with the words of wisdom from HH the Dalai Lama to offer the very best selections from the film. A captivating journey, imparting the experience & simple truths the Dalai Lama personifies.
"...fascinating, ravishingly beautiful and sonically soothing..." - John Griffin - Montreal Gazette
This album will be ready for sale shortly, and can be pre-ordered by contacting us. Please go to the Contact page for our email addresses. More info to come.
To listen to samples of the album, click here: Dalai Lama Renaissance Soundtrack
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TECHUNG & LHASA SPIRITS IN CONCERT
The group is back home now after their concerts in Moscow & Kalmykia, in Russia!! They performed for the Ocean of Compassion festival. Please see the video below for more info!!
They also had a successful show in the Grass Valley, Northern California in May.
We will be updating their tour schedule with the newest events soon... Just a hint: Look out for them in Japan and Taiwan... and other countries later this year!
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Techung & the Lhasa Spirits - Live at Carnegie Hall 02-03-09
The Tibet House Annual Benefit Concert 2009 was held at Carnegie Hall on Feb. 3rd, 2009. Techung & Lhasa Spirits represented Tibetan music at the event. The line-up was fantastic, and included these performers: Philip Glass & the Scorchio String Quartet, Patti Smith, Steve Earle, Keb' Mo', Antibalas, Angelique Kidjo, Vampire Weekend, The National, Zack Glass, Jesse Smith, and the Monks of the Drepang Gomang Monastery.
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The "UNDER AFRICAN SKIES" exhibit in the MUZEO, Anaheim, featured music from Limitless Sky Records.
Please see the video below, featuring Michel Tyabji performing on Mbira.
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DALAI LAMA RENAISSANCE Sound Track Album features teachings from His Holiness the Dala Lama with narration by Harrison Ford interwoven with the varied cast of international musicians and composers. The album will be ready for release later this year - 2009.
We have spent the past two years recording the music featured in the soundtrack, as well as mixing this feature length documentary and finalizing the audio post production.
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Michel Tyabji, Co-Founder of Limitless Sky Records, performed with the renowned Tibetan artist Techung at the 2008 Penang World Music Festival in Malaysia. Check it out here:
TECHUNG: Techung is a prominent Tibetan singer/songwriter living in exile in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is best known for his performances of traditional Tibetan music, dance, and opera under the name Tashi Dhondup Sharzur. He uses his childhood nickname, Techung, when performing as a solo artist. Whether performing in traditional or contemporary styles, Techung's dual goals are to revive Tibetan music in the Tibetan community and to expose the rich performing cultural tradition of his homeland to the world community.
LISTEN TO TECHUNG"S MUSIC HERE!
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NDALA KASHEBA'S NEW MUSIC VIDEO: "REFUGEES" is in regular rotation on Link TV (DirectTV/ DishNetwork -satellite networks in the USA). Music Video directed by Manny Marquez, from footage shot in Dar es Salaam by Runjiv Kapur of Performance.
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ROUGH GUIDE TO TANZANIA
Ndala Kasheba's youngest son, Francis, has had his school fees paid for one year from the licensing of Kasheba's single "Nimlilie Nani?" to the WORLD MUSIC NETWORK for their compilation of Tanzanian Music: THE ROUGH GUIDE TO TANZANIAN MUSIC. Check it out! Income from the sales of these albums go straight to Kasheba's son, as was the Maestro's wish.
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NDALA KASHEBA Featured on the New Compilation AFRICAN GUITAR KINGS
“SHEER AFRICA: Tales of series...” gives you the best African Jams ever heard from the continent, indeed the world, combining repertoire from all over. The “Best of the Best”, the series features the biggest artists and songs only and focuses on territories, instruments, genres and concepts.
AFRICAN GUITAR KINGS: New Compilation released by SHEER SOUND, South Africa - For more details go to the Sheer Sound site:
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REVIEWS OF LIMITLESS SKY RELEASES...
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NDALA KASHEBA
Yellow Card
Congo-born in Tanzania, he's what guitar paradise is made of even though that heavenly collection passed him by. Definitive is the 12-string acoustic he cradles in both photos. Sustaining is gentle singer Baziano Bweti, who died in 2002 preaching AIDS education. Of good cheer are King Malou's perky alto themes on "Massamba" and the super-collectible "Kokolay." Also nice are the clicks, the claps, the coro. You believe in staying positive? East African soukous is still writing the book. A MINUS
http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0323/christgau.php
Consumer Guide
by Robert Christgau
Eating Again
June 2nd, 2003 2:30 PM
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NEW AFRICAN COMPOSERS, VOL. 1
“…New African Composers is an essential listen for anyone interested in the origins of so much of this world's music, from ska and jazz to salsa and merengue. It is simultaneously a history lesson and a glance into the future evolution of what has become generically known as "world" music. It is certainly a must for those who appreciate the syncopated beats of hip-hop, or the free-verse improvisation of jazz.”
Rob Walsh - Ink 19
February 2003
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GARIKAYI TIRIKOTI
"MAIDEI"
The Portland Phoenix
Issue Date: December 5 - 11, 2003
The spiritually charged music of Zimbabwe’s Shona people has inspired a worldwide cult following. Recordings of the mbira, a 22-iron-pronged hand piano, circulate among the faithful but rarely make it into record stores. This one, coming from a new label specializing in Tanzanian music, stands out from the pack. Tirikoti is a phenomenon, in part because he uses a range of mbiras in different tunings to expand the instrument’s sonic range and in part because he plays with amazing speed and precision.
BY BANNING EYRE
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