Thank You Canada, by Dorjee Tsering

Thank You Canada

by Dorjee Tsering

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Tsewang Gyamtso རྡོ་རྗེ་ལགས་སྐུ་ཁམས་བཟང་། གཞས་འདི་གཞས་ཚིག་ཨི་ཡོད་གི། Favorite track: Khamey (Tibetan Alphabet Song).

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Photography: Victoria Lidia Ilgacs, Calligraphy: Jamyang Dorjee Chakrisha, Cover Design by John Parrish

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1.	Semshuk Machak (Never Give Up) 04:07	info	buy track
2.	Gongsa Chok 04:30	info	buy track
3.	Tashi Delek 03:28	info	buy track
4.	Gaychu Yang Nyen (Dalai Lama's 80th Birthday) 05:32	info	buy track
5.	Bhod Kyi Bumo (Women of Tibet) 02:38	info	buy track
6.	Thoeshay Trachok (Thoeshay Circle Dance) 05:22	info	buy track
7.	Khamey (Tibetan Alphabet Song) 02:58	info	buy track
8.	Thakring Kyi Garog (Faraway) 05:02	info	buy track
9.	Amma Changma (Mama's Wine) 03:42	info	buy track
10.	Thug Chi Chay Canada (Thank You Canada) 05:15	info	buy track
11.	Sangye Menlha (Medicine Buddha) 05:43	info	buy track

about

Thank You Canada is the Dorjee Tsering's second album with producer Lou Natale. Four of the songs, including the title track, were recorded with a 30 piece orchestra.

credits

released June 2, 2017

Dorjee Tsering: lead vocals, dranyen, bansuri. Lou Natale: piano, Fender Rhodes, accordion (3, 9), dulcimer (7), acoustic guitar (2, 9, 10), classical guitar (5), dranyen (10), Chinese orchestra drum and bodhran (2), programming. Anne Lindsay: fiddle. David Woodhead: bass, mandolin (1, 8), ukulele (1), autoharp (1), accordion (8), udu (8), lap steel (8), banjo (8), guitar (8). Brian MacMillan: acoustic and electric guitars (1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 10). Rakesh Tewari: drums. Ravi Naimpally: tabla, dholak, frame drum, udu (1, 5, 10). Debashis Sinha: doumbek, tambourine and various percussion (3, 6, 7, 9). Amely Zhou: erhu (4). Andrew Kay: soprano saxophone (5). Anwar Khurshid: sitar (11). Suba Sankaren, Dylan Bell, Debbie Flemming: background vocals (5, 10). Suba Sankaren, duet vocal (8). Orchestra on (4, 5, 10): Terry Holowach, Amalia Canzoneri, Alex Toskov, Jim Wallenberg, Tanya Charles – 1st violins. Wendy Rose, Boris Kupesic, Janetta Wilczewska, Alessia Disimini – 2nd violins. Val Kuinka, Claudio Vena, Angela Rudden, Nicholaos Papadakis – violi. Jose Shapero, Rachel Pomedi, Sebastian Ostertag – celli. James MacDonald, Eric Szabo, Tina Shapero – french horns. Lief Mosbaugh – oboe. Anne Thompson – flute.

All songs composed by Dorjee Tsering, except (1) by Dorjee Tsering and Thupten Tenzin, (10) by Dorjee Tsering and Lou Natale, and (6) traditional.

Produced and Arranged by Lou Natale, except (8) arranged by David Woodhead. Recorded and Mixed by Jeremy Darby at Canterbury Music Co., Toronto. Assisstant Engineer: Julian Decorte. Orchestration: John Herberman. Mastered by Peter Letros, wreckhousemastering.com. Additional recording: Lou Natale. Cover Photo: Victoria Lidia Ilgacs. Calligrapher: Jamyang Dorjee Chakrisha. Publicity, Beverly Kreller, speak-music.com.

Thanks to the Ontario Arts Council and Toronto Arts Council for their generous support.