This is Tibetan monks sort of chanting and sort of singing (at some extremely low pitches much of the time) mostly in unison, but sometimes there will be a solo voice. The unison parts use an interesting isorhythm. Due to the low pitches that they sing, their voices have a deep, resonant sound\u00e2\u20ac\u201dit\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s almost as if you can hear the individual vibrations of their vocal chords (maybe you can).<\/p>\n
This sounds like frog music\u00e2\u20ac\u201dgood frog music, to be exact. I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t mean that to be derogatory; I happen to like frog music. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s just that I simply can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t listen to this without thinking of the frogs singing in Paul McCartney\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s animated film, Rupert and the Frog Song<\/i>. Frog music is a strangely neglected (in my opinion, anyway) genre of music. I know for a fact that kids like frog music, and I know for a fact that adults like it (and I wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t trust any adult who didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t like frog music with my kids (assuming I had kids)). It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s fun (although these Tantras are certainly more on the serious side of the frog music spectrum). Of course, part of the reason why it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s easy for me to abstract these Tantras as \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcsimply\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 frog music is the fact that I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t understand the language they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re sung in, so I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have a clue as to what they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re actually about. I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t mean to be disrespectful to any of the religious ideas expressed by the words (In fact, I consider myself to be a lapsed Zen Buddhist\/Taoist). But I do think it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s fun to listen to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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