Veteran singer and Bhutan's only ethnomusicologist, Jigme Dukpa, is back on a CD album, this time to pay homage. Guetue (homage), the popular singer's third CD album, comes eight years after his smash hit second Folk Songs from Bhutan. The album is a tribute to the third Druk Gyalpo, who was a great aficionado and patron of Bhutanese folk songs and dances throughout his reign.
The album was released on May 2 coinciding most fittingly with the birth anniversary of the third Druk Gyalpo.
The eight-tracker album has some of the never-heard-and-never-before-recorded songs. Track one, Taktshang, is a tribute zhungdra song that takes the listener on a pilgrimage to the sacred Taktshang monastery, the glorious Pungthang Dewa Choenpi Phodrang and Tashichhodzong.
Khamsum Yueley Namgyel (track 3) is also a zhungdra that was first performed during the consecration ceremony of Khamsum Yueley Namgyel Chorten in Punakha. The haunting melody celebrates the spread of dharma and peace in all directions.
Tshangpai Bumo (track 6) is a boedra rendered in the typical Bhutanese singing in octave, and describes the many steps involved in wearing ornaments by Bhutanese women. The song was never heard before until Ap Dophu, 74, popularly known as Pungsi Dophu, taught the performers at the Aa-Yang folk group, Thimphu.
The album also contains some of Jigme Dukpa's older songs like Gomphu Kora, which he composed in 1990 while he was a college student. For the first time ever, a female voice (Druk Star Jampel Yangzom) is added to the song that narrates the joy and experiences of the popular Gomphu Kora Tshechu of Tashiyangtse, where many young people fall in love and celebrate their time at the sacred site blessed by Guru Rinpoche.
Track 4, Karma Lingi Lingtoed, a song about the various stages of weaving a woolen cloth in rural Bhutan, is rendered in octave beautifully as can only the master himself.
Sharchok Gungtang Lam (track 5) is one of the most popular zhungdra that uses mountain as a metaphor and describes the wishes of the singer to return home safely after his pilgrim to Lhasa in Tibet.
Phuchi Phunyi is one of the first songs that Jigme Dukpa learnt as a child in Wongchilu, Wamrong, Trashigang
"This song is one of the most popular folk songs from Dungsam Dosum (Pemagatshel) that recounts the glorious reign of Dungsam Jadrung (Local Lord of Dungsam). This is my favourite song," says Jigme Dukpa.
The final track (8), Lu Choe Chi Lhada, is the most touching and magnificently rendered in typical Bhutanese style with dranyen and flute. The lyrics was composed by the 70th Je Khenpo HH Trulku Jigme Choeda as a tribute to His Majesty King Jigme Singye Wangchuck when Bhutan was going through difficult times during the military operation in the south and east in December 15, 2003.
"There is a clear sign of Bhutan losing both its tangible and intangible culture. This album is a small effort on my part to preserve some of the most sacred and original songs of Bhutan," Jigme Dukpa said.
Guetue brings the popular zhungdra and boedra tunes to new height with his soulful voice with dranyen, flute, Bhutanese fiddle and dulcimer. Jigme Dukpa, who has come a long way since he first recorded his songs on T-series cassettes in a Walkman, has a plan to bring out a fusion album soon.
Source: Bhutan Observer
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