| This disk opens to a full-bore military assualt. After the chaotic sounds of destruction and resultant suffering subside, shegar is awash in emotional operatic/Oriental female vocals and darkly swelling strings. Warmer dentro continues with Esther Tessél's Eastern vocalese, backed by a droning haze of brassy resonance. The mountain-inspired flute sounds of kailas (1:34) wail with earnest praise.
The Tibetan word for death is shiya; the track enters a swelteringly murky world, laced with diffused spoken fragments of childlike voices and cello sounds which are suddenly unleashed upon by an intense barrage, then funereal drumming. When between the mysterious and moody realms of bardo, the listener is surrounded by a densely surging sonic stew from which various sounds bubble up, both worldly and preternatural. An impressively arranged mayhem which fades on gong tones which re-renter into amittabha's territory. Over a powerful, deep drone, acrobatically trilling Cantonese vocals invite.
Demonstrating its self-definition through lovely waves of ethereal radiance, gyewalang means "reborn" in the Tibetan language. Ghostly singing emerges briefly as the piece fades, becoming the sweet and tuneful sangsara. Tessél adroitly emotes over Lee's muffled gamelan, which rings with clunky expressiveness. Resplendent l'oceano is a short voice-and-shimmer/swell exultation of the Dalai Lama.
Distant vocals ripple and are swept over by lushly amorphous waves of synth in paragate, with occasional rings and clangs of ethnic innstrumentation fading into the growing silence. chenrezi (15:21) is the embodiment of mercy and compassion; this track signifies its meaning through a long, reverent drone with assorted levels of ringing em-bell-ishments which slur into the ongoing flow.
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