Shining Spirit & Jamyang Yeshi
Film & Concert
May 16, 2010
About the Film
About the Concert
Following the film, Jamyang will perform live, singing and playing traditional Tibetan instruments, such as the dranyin and the kara, as well as the non-traditional ukelele!
Shining Spirit, filmed in Canada, India and Tibet (2006-2009) documents a recording project that brings together the family of Jamyang Yeshi, through music and the use of multi-tracking recording technology.
With the help of western friends, Jamyang, in exile in Canada, and his brother, Tsundue, in exile in the United States, join voices with the family they left behind in Tibet.
For the first time in over a decade, they sing together once again.
Shining Spirit is a testament to the power of music, the resilience of the Tibetan culture, and the enduring bond of a family separated by politics and geography.
Touring with the Banff Film Festival en route to Telluride Film Festival & Monaco.
Movie Trailer
Shining Spirit Project from Mark Unrau on Vimeo.
More About Shining spirit
In 1998 Jamyang Yeshi, a talented singer and musician
from the Amdo region of Tibet, fled his Chinese-occupied country and
settled in Dharamsala, India. Over eight years in India he performed
widely, and released several CDs, until his life took a different course
in 2005. Jamyang was invited to Canada to perform at The Banff Centre’s “Cultures
at Risk” Summit
and was granted refugee status in Canada. This brought him closer to
his brother, Tsundue, who had also escaped Tibet and made his home in
the United States. However, both men’s freedom in exile kept them continents
apart from the rest of their close-knit family in Tibet.
In early 2006, the Tara Café Project began work on the Shining Spirit recording and film project with a dream in mind ... the project would bring the family together through their music, using multi-tracking technology; as well, a short film would be made of the process. This project would be accomplished with the help of western friends who were able to travel freely to Tibet, a country now forbidden to Jamyang and Tsundue. In the summer of 2006, Mark Unrau and Karen McDiarmid travelled to the family’s home in Amdo, bringing with them a video camera, and music tracks recorded by Jamyang in Canada and stored on Mark’s laptop computer. They were joined by Gompo Kyab, a musician friend of Jamyang and Tsundue’s, who acted as music facilitator and translator for the project.
Over the course of three weeks, members of Jamyang’s musical family – father, two elder brothers, younger sister and nephew – and the extended family, were recorded. The recordings from Tibet were then carried back to Canada, and the family was reunited musically by mixing the tracks together in the studios of The Banff Centre. Jamyang and his father sing together, as do Jamyang and his younger sister, while the entire family joins in song for the first time in fifteen years in “Aku Pema.” And the family, having not heard Jamyang sing since he had left Tibet, were able to listen to his beautiful voice soaring from the laptop computer. This was an emotional time for everyone, including the project members. The Shining Spirit Project is a testament to the power of music, the resilience of the Tibetan culture, and the enduring bond of a family separated by politics and geography.
Ticket Info
| When | Sunday, May 16, 2010 |
| Tickets | Suggested donation: $15 at the door. |
| Location | Columbia Center for the Arts, Hood River |
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