In review--Love Songs for the Tibetan Homeland
World/ Folkloric Techung Tibet (On The Road) Arc Music Many years ago, my first introduction to Tibetan music came when friends and I attended a Tibetan monk choir performance at the University of Washington. Since that time I have heard Tibetan folkloric, sacred, and operatic songs. Mostly, I’ve heard new age versions of Tibetan songs by artists such as Nawang Khechog. Techung (his solo artist name), who now resides in San Francisco where he co-founded Chaksampa Tibetan Dance and Opera Company brings us love, folk and anthemic songs played on traditional and contemporary instruments on his CD, Tibet (On The Road) . The opener, Lok Dro , a contemporary folk song asks Tibetans to return to the homeland. The universal themes of the text showed up as the perfect song for the Native American documentary, A Good Day to Die , about the Native American civil rights movement. The song B...