Dechen - Tibetan mantras from Switzerland
Dechen Shak-Dagsay began singing tradutional Tibetan mantras with modern melodies 20 years ago. Her music is soft, meditative and calm, even trance-like at times. Her most recent album has introduced some songs with a heavier beat.
Dechen is commited to "preserving Tibetan culture in the West" and considers herself a product of Eastern and Western Culture, having arrived in Switzerland in 1963.
Katt Cullen talks to Dechen ahead of her concert at the Alhambra in Geneva with the Jewel Ensemble, before multiple Swiss dates in March...
- This competition mentioned in this interview is now closed and the winner has been notified.
See Dachen live in concert on one of her upcoming Swiss dates:
Saturday 22 Feb - L'Alhambra, Geneva
Saturday 7 March - Enge Church, Zurich
Friday 13 March - Elisabethen Church, Basel
Saturday 14 March - Yehudi Menuhin Forum, Bern
Sunday 15 March - Locarno Theatre, Locarno
Friday - 27 March - Hotel Schweizerhof, Lucerne
Tickets at universalsounds.ch
