Phurpa - 2009 - Dud of the Black Net

(recorded live during concerts and rituals in autumn 2008, Moscow - winter 2009, Paris)

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, Iran and Tibet. The original 2003 lineup of the project that emerged as a result was dubbed Phurpa (one of the five tutelary deities of the Father Tantra in Bon tradition), and all the members have carried on with their research in the field of Bon and Buddhist liturgies up to the present day. The ritual Tibetan instruments as used by the ensemble include the following: dunchen, gyaling, silnyen, bub, damaru, kanling, nga, shang. The ensemble adheres to the rgyud-skad tradition of Tantric overtone chanting. 

(current line-up) 
Alexey Tegin, Andrey Grekov, Pavel Selchukov, Dmitry Globa 

(former) 
Cheslav Merk, Ulrika Merk, Anastasiya Tomskaya, Eduard Utukin

(information from myspace)

Great work done by these guys let us feel the majesty and amazing beauty of Tibetian ritual pre-buddhism music of Bön tradition. Check out their myspace to be convinced. Enjoy it.

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