GRÜNBERG, SVEN

The eight-hundred-years-old texts of the great Tibetan yogi and poet MILAREPA have been awakened to new life.

Thanks to the music and songs of the Estonian musician SVEN GRÜNBERG. Grünberg has had the original texts, which have been handed down, translated into the Estoninan language by his master Linnart Mäll. By the purposeful and spartan use of many instruments in conjunction with electronics, Grünberg produces a dramtic effect of immense depth and feeling. We perceive "unheard" music, something grand which is never expressed.

Thus Grünberg bows in humility before the life´s work of the saintly Tibetan Buddhist and poet MILAREPA (1040-1123) who has brought even for the present age such a significant turn from black to white magic; the charismatic, tantric yogi who opened for us the path to mental freedom, to the totality of knowledge, to consummate transcendentence.

Grünberg´s life began in 1956 in Estonia, but he built his career as a musician and composer in the former USSR, where he made a name for himself as one of the few pioneers of electronic music.

His main interest as a musician and composer is to transfer mythological and metaphorical pictures especially of the Asiatic folk music into a global, comtemporary view of our world.