Various Artists / Healing The Divide: A Concert For Peace And Reconciliation
Album: Healing The Divide: A Concert For Peace And Reconciliation   Collection:World
Artist:Various Artists   Added:Jul 2007
Label:Anti-  

A-File Activity
Add Date: 2007-08-19 Pull Date: 2007-10-21 Charts: Reggae/World
Week Ending: Oct 21 Oct 14 Oct 7 Sep 23 Sep 16 Sep 2 Aug 26
Airplays: 1 2 1 1 2 3 1

Recent Airplay
1. Oct 16, 2007: At the Cafe Bohemian
Peace Chants
4. Sep 18, 2007: At the Cafe Bohemian
Peace Chants
2. Oct 10, 2007: public noize racket
Invocation, Special Address
5. Sep 14, 2007: At the Cafe Bohemian
Peace Chants
3. Oct 02, 2007: At the Cafe Bohemian
Peace Chants
6. Sep 11, 2007: At the Cafe Bohemian
Peace Chants

Album Review
Don Farrell
Reviewed 2007-08-23
Various artists perform a benefit for Richard Gere's Healing the Divide Foundation. (to bridge cultural gaps & forge new bonds between peoples around the World) proceeds from the sale of the CD benefit peoples of Tibet and the Himalayan region. Performed Sept. 21 2003 FCC compliant
1: 5: 02 intro by Richard Gere then speech by the Dalai Lama in Tibetian with translation and then some English by the Dalai Lama. Nice intro to track #2
***2: 5:35 throaty chant by The Gyuto Tantric Choir
***3: 11:00 Nivedon raga by Anoushka Shankar on sitar with tabla big applause at end
****4: 8:36 Himalayan Mountain BIG Horn with Native American Flute and spoken word " Peace Chant" by Nawang Khechog & R. Carlos Nakai , mellow & soothing. applause at end
****5: 7:30 a piece by Philip Glass & Foday Musa Suso on kora and mellow vocal scat/soft wail
****6: 4:01 fantastic sound of Kronos Quartet with bowed strings and throaty gravelly voice of Tom Waits
7: 3:55 joking about the gig intro by Tom Waits music starts @0:41 with Kronos Quartet, he sounds like a pirate. Nice collaboration.
8: 4:06 slow, mellow Tom Waits with Kronos Quartet
***9: 5:47 joking about the Dalai Lama intro Tom Waits & Kronos Quartet . mellow Waits " Diamond in Your Mind" D Farrell 08/2007


Track Listing
 ArtistTrack Name
1. His Holiness The Dalai Lama Special Address
2. Gyuto Tantric Choir, The Invocation
3. Shankar, Anoushka Nivedon
4. Chechog, Nawang And R. Carlos Nakai Peace Chants
5. Glass, Philip And Foday Musa Suso The Gambia
6. Waits, Tom And The Kronos Quartet Way Done In The Hole
7. Waits, Tom And The Kronos Quartet God's Away On Business
8. Waits, Tom And The Kronos Quartet Lost In The Harbor
9. Waits, Tom And The Kronos Quartet Diamond In Your Mind