DRIKUNG KAGYU MONKS

Composer, producer and instrumentalist: Peeter Vähi
Bassoon: Martin Kuuskmann
Vocals: Druwang Rinpoche and the monsk of the Drikung Kagyu school

The charismatic personality on the cover of the CD Booklet is the venerable Druwang Rinpoche, who Peeter Vähi met at the upper Indus. This exceptional Yogi with his penetrating gaze conveys a "pure clarity". Born in Tibet in 1921, he entered the Drikung Thil Monastery as a child, studied philosophy of mahayana at the Buddhist academy and withdrew himself twice for twelve years into the solitude of a cave.
The Estonian composer Peeter Vähi is a practising Buddhist. He recorded this album in Tallinn together with monsk from the Drikung Kagyu school. He uses their Buddhist mantras and ritual songs as a basis and combines these with his musical beliefs of the western cultures. Thereby he is supported by the Estonian bassoonist Martin Kuuskmann - who lives in New York - with his distinctive tone and virtuoso improvisations (also see "Archipelago" on CCn'C Records).

Peeter Vähi's dialogue with the Western and Asiatic cultures is, amongst others found in his works "The Path To The Heart Of Asia" (Erdenklang 20502), "Supreme Silence" (CCn'C 00182) as well as "Chant Of The Celestial Lake" ("Celestials" CCn'C 01712).
Vähi's music is always a subjective expression of his spirituality rooted in deep faith, which he contrasts with a hyper modern complex world and its actually intellectual and perfect, but often just as inexplicable and soulless contemporary music. The same as in all his work, also this CD reflects his empathy converted into mystical connections between the cultures of different countries and epochs in exotic music

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