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Tibetan Bells II is the outcome
of years of study, travel, and experiment by Henry Wolff and Nancy Hennings, two
musicians resolutely in quest of the "sound between the spaces." Bringing
together musical elements never before associated, sounds vastly separate it
time, space, and tradition, the musicians have advanced across remote areas of
sound. In Tibetan Bells II, the ancient resonances of the bells of Tibet are
deployed within a musical framework uncompromisingly 20th century, and Western.
Tibetan Bells II is an unprecedented synthesis of the sounds of East and West,
past and present. The instruments of this release are exclusively the bells of
Tibet. These remarkable instruments have been described elsewhere, yet it is a
striking fact that the tones of Tibetan bells, the indigenous products of a
highly evolved yet little known Asian culture, have often been confused with the
ultra-modern sounds of electronic music. Nothing could be further from the
truth. There is no electronic tampering and the resonances of the bells owe
nothing to outside sources. Unearthly and timeless, they are their own. |