I don't get enough world music and when I do get it a lot of times I don't know what to do with it and it gets shoved aside. The main reason world music is so refreshing at times is that it is completely different from the pop/punk/metal/rock/electronic/country landscape that I usually dwell. 

The sheet that came with The Gyuto Monks disc talks about how the monks manage to get to a tone so low that it is inhumanly possible. But the monks manage to get themselves into a state when they are chanting that they transcend as well. The Grateful Dead's Mickey Hart is responsible for this recording, one that documents these chants from the Gyoto Tantric Monastic University. Hart states: "They are not chanting for themselves and salvation. They are chanting for every living thing, for China, Chinese people, Tibetan people, American people, every being."

The sound that these monks form with their voice is really unnerving. It is revealed that the vocals on the World Peace cd have been multi-tracked but there is a reason behind this. It is to emulate the 100's of monks chanting at the same time. It really sounds amazing. I can't describe it. Similar to throat singing but with that many people behind it it makes it sound so much more. Tibetan Chants for World Peace is note everyday listening. No, but I do recommend you try and hear a track or two for yourself to find out what goes on behind those walls

By: Dennis Scanland