Bhutan Balladeers – Your Face Is Like the Moon, Your Eyes Are Stars

June 21st, 2024
New Album: Bhutan Balladeers – Your Face Is Like the Moon, Your Eyes Are Stars
Produced by Grammy-winner, Ian Brennan (Tinariwen, Ustad Saami, The Good Ones [Rwanda], Parchman Prison Prayer), the Bhutan Balladeers perform classical music from Bhutan called Zhungdra, that dates back to the dawn of the 17th century. The music features extended vocal tones that weave complex patterns, and melodies that are supported by minimal instrumental accompaniment. That instrumentation consists of the Drumnyen (a lute with 3 double-strings, also sometimes known as Drangyen), the wooden flute, Lemo (hammered dulcimer), and the Chiwang (a 2-string, bowed fiddle). Derived from Sanskrit, the Choekey language (“dharma language”) used in Zhungdra songs is indecipherable to most Bhutanese apart from Buddhist monks. The Bhutan Balladeers collective’s entire debut album was recorded live in a hilltop forest outside of the capital, Thimphu.
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