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David Lewiston
12+ albums
gamelanfield recordingsindonesianWorld MusicUnited Kingdom
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David Sidney George Lewiston (11 May 1929 – 29 May 2017) was a London-born collector of the world's traditional music. He is best known for his recordings initially released on LP on the Explorer Series of Nonesuch Records beginning in 1967. He earned a graduate degree in 1953 from Trinity College of Music in London, where he studied piano, conducting, orchestration, harmony, and counterpoint. He later studied composition in New York City with Thomas de Hartmann, who had been a devotee of G. I. Gurdjieff. For more than a decade he served as one of the musicians at the Gurdjieff Foundation, New York. Finding it difficult to make a living as a musician he worked as a journalist for more than a decade but abandoned it to return to music, traveling widely to record traditional music. His first recordings were made in Bali in 1966, and the initial album from these recordings, Music from the Morning of the World, was released in 1967. He has made extensive recordings of Tibetan Buddhist rituals, most notably of the chordal chanting of Gyuto Tantric University (one of the great colleges of the Gelugpa, the Established Church of Tibetan Buddhism), and the Drukpa Kagyu rituals of Khampagar Gompa, as well as music from many other countries, including Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Guatemala and Mexico, India, Jammu and Kashmir, Ladakh and Lahul, Himachal Pradesh in India's West Himalaya, Gilgit and Hunza in Pakistan's North-West Frontier Province, Darjeeling and Sikkim in
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Bali
Music From The Morning Of The World
Tibetan Buddhism - The Ritual Orchestra And Chants
Bali: Golden Rain
Music from the Morning of the World : The Balinese Gamelan & Ketjak: The Ramayana Monkey Chant
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Music from the Morning of the World: The Balinese Gamelan & Ketjak - The Ramayana Monkey Chant
Music From The Morning Of The World - The Balinese Gamelan
The Balinese Gamelan: Music From The Morning of The World
Golden Rain
Music from the Morning of the World: The Balinese Gamelan
Bali: Gamelan & Kecak
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Tibet: The Heart Of Dharma