Music of Tibet (album)

Music of Tibet
Studio album by
The Gyuto Monks
Released1967 (LP) 2005 (CD)
Recorded1967
GenreEthnic
LabelGemsTone
ProducerHuston Smith

Music of Tibet[1] is a historic recording, made by world religion scholar Huston Smith in 1967.[2] While traveling in India, Smith was staying at the Gyuto Monastery. While listening to the monks chanting, he realized that each monk was producing multiple overtones for each note, creating a chord from a single voice. He made a recording of the chanting and had engineers at MIT confirm the phenomenon, which is known as overtone singing.[3]

The recording was originally released as an LP on Anthology Records. In 2005 the master tapes were digitized for a CD on the GemsTone label. Royalties from sales of the CD go to the Gyuto Tantric University in India.

  1. ^ Allmusic.com listing
  2. ^ Huston Smith telling story of recording
  3. ^ NPR story of recording and MIT analysis