This astounding spectacle—Corvus Corax’s Cantus Buranus II—is my prototype for a contemporary Western Vajrayana ritual. (It’s also clearly the best opera performed by heavy metal musicians on authentic Medieval instruments EVER!)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsFyIN7_txU …
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One function of tantric ritual is to overwhelm concept-consciousness with intense sensory stimulus, so you are thrown into direct experience of awareness. EXTREMELY LOUD NOISE is a powerful method; Tibetans use enormous horns, cymbals, and drumshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Cr5SXzZYTw …
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I have a hard time with that video bc the wild drummer girl dressed in Tibetan garb seems so racist. But the other music video is a real spectacle of neocolonial fantasy. I've watched it dozens of times and still can't figure out what's going in!https://vimeo.com/105203542
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omg I hadn’t found this one! How magnificently, baroquely, fabulously bogus!
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