Tibet
This project takes us among the tibetan refugees of Ladakh, in the Indian Himalaya.
In march 2002 was realeased The art of Tibetan lute (Arion), a CD in which exiled musician Sherap Dorjee introduces the various styles of lute music from the land where he was born.
In January 2003, we recorded Sherap's second album : Songs from the Six High Valleys. Together with three female singers and several instruments, he now unveils the little known music of Western Tibet. This CD was released in January 2004 by BUDA Musique.
The project will be completed with "Tibet : songs from exile", a double album currently in production and dedicated to the tibetan community exiled in Ladakh. Through sounds, pictures and text, this work takes us to the high pastures of Chang Thang with their nomadic camps and to the refugee villages of the Leh valley. Both CDs highlight rural music, virtually unknown outside Tibet : a wealth of a cappella songs with slow and highly melodic phrasing, shepherd flutes, peasant lutes, etc... The project received the support of A.E.T. (Aide à l'Enfance Tibétaine : Aid to Tibetan Childhood), french NGO supporting tibetan refugees, and the precious collaboration of one of these refugees, Gyalpo Tashi.