Tom Waits, Kronos Quartet, More Rock For Peace
Recorded at a September 21, 2003 benefit concert held at the Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall in New York City, the Dalai Lama, Tom Waits, Kronos Quartet, Philip Glass, Anoushka Shankar and more will be featured on Healing the Divide: A Concert for Peace and Reconciliation. Out July 10 on Anti-, the album will highlight the Dalai Lama's 20-day tour of the U.S., which culminated in the concert.
Proceeds from the sales of the CD will benefit Healing the Divide (a non-profit organization Richard Gere formed in 2001 in order to aid humanitarian crisis) and its Tibetan Health Initiative, which provides health insurance to Buddhist monks and nuns. Translation: When you buy a copy of this CD, you provide one year of health insurance for an impoverished monk or nun in a refugee settlement.
Providing the usual comedic levity, the ever-quotable Waits took a moment to get "serious" in a recent statement. The legendary artist, who contributes four songs to the release, including the previously-unreleased "Diamond in Your Mind," noted why this cause is so personally important to him. "I'm no fool," he said. "It's a spiritual insurance policy. Hell, at my age, the next group I put together, everyone may be playing a harp. All kidding aside, I owed His Holiness a favor. He did all my papers in school."
Track listening for Healing the Divide:
1. His Holiness the Dalai Lama (His Holiness the Dalai Lama) 2. Invocation (The Gyuto Tantric Choir) 3. Nivedan (Anoushka Shankar) 4. Peace Chants (Nawang Khechong and R. Carlos Nakai) 5. The Gambia (Phillip Glass and Foday Musa Suso) 6. Way Down in the Hole (Tom Waits and Kronos Quartet w/ Greg Cohen) 7. God's Away on Business ((Tom Waits and Kronos Quartet w/ Greg Cohen) 8. Lost in the Harbor (Tom Waits and Kronos Quartet w/ Greg Cohen) 9. Diamond in Your Mind (Tom Waits and Kronos Quartet w/ Greg Cohen)
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