HYMNS AND RITUALS OF GYER ~ PHURPA ~ Ancient Modern Bon ~ Tibetan Dzogchen Rgyud-Skad Chants

HYMNS AND RITUALS OF GYER ~ PHURPA ~ Ancient Modern Bon ~ Tibetan Dzogchen Rgyud-Skad Chants tracklisting: 1. I 43:44 2. II 44:48 3. III 40:32 4. IV 47:52 *** Before Buddhism reached Tibet, practices involving shamanic rites derived from various ancestral cults became known as Bon. Phurpa, led by contemporary artist Alexei Tegin, is a Moscow based group in this tradition. This Tibetan monastic choir uses a specific kind of overtone chanting which is based on the principle of the singer's transmogrification during the “chanting meditation“. This voyage began in the middle of the 1990's in Moscow, when a group of artists and musicians led by Alexei Tegin and based at the legendary Fabrique of Cardinal Art commenced their studies of traditional ritual music, drifting away from the field of contemporary electroacoustic and industrial music with the intent to delve deeper into the ancient musical cultures of the ancient Egypt,