Smithsonian Folkways Scores GRAMMY nom for Best New Age Album with Laurie Anderson, Tenzin Choegyal & Jesse Paris Smith’s ‘Songs from the Bardo’ | Shore Fire Media

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Smithsonian Folkways Scores GRAMMY nom for Best New Age Album with Laurie Anderson, Tenzin Choegyal & Jesse Paris Smith's 'Songs from the Bardo'

Congratulations to Smithsonian Folkways artists Laurie Anderson, Tenzin Choegyal & Jesse Paris Smith for their Best New Age Album nomination, 'Songs from the Bardo,' today for the 63rd Annual GRAMMY Awards.

The collaboration between avant-garde artist Laurie Anderson, Tibetan multi-instrumentalist Tenzin Choegyal, and composer/activist Jesse Paris Smith, 'Songs from the Bardo' is a sonic and spoken word journey through the visionary text of the Tibetan Book of the Dead (a guide to entering the next stage of consciousness after death). Listen here: https://open.spotify.com/album/08D0Jby6PtRWX9io6dQamA

“An album about life; a salve as much as a guide" (8.4 score) - Pitchfork

Laurie Anderson, Tenzin Choegyal & Jesse Paris Smith's nomination follows Smithsonian Folkways' two GRAMMY wins last year, and Laurie Anderson's first, for her album 'Landfall.'