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  Bloom by Ravenna Michalsen
Bloom by Ravenna Michalsen
 
Ravenna Michalsen trained as a classical cellist for fourteen years until developing arthritis and fibromyalgia. She turned to voice and song writing in college, but it wasn’t until a retreat with Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche in 2002 that the combination of dharma and music occurred. During that retreat Mipham Rinpoche wrote a song-like poem for Ravenna to set to music, “Just A Seed Waiting to Grow”, which appears on her first album Bloom. Two years after this retreat Ravenna dropped out of graduate school and spent a year living at various retreat centers working and writing. She recorded Bloom at the urging of Tsultrim Allione, the author of Women of Wisdom and founder of the retreat center Tara Mandala in southwestern Colorado.

In February 2009 Ravenna's third album, Bloom, was released and Tricycle Magazine published a profile on her work. Both Dharmasong and Bloom are essentially devotional albums: sadness, joy, love and anger are combined with utter openness, playfulness and acceptance. The songs range from supplications to praise; from requests to questions; from statements to apologies. Many feature prominent figures from Indian and Tibetan Buddhism, including Yeshe Tsogyal, Machig Labdrön, Guru Rinpoche (Padmasambhava), Marpa Lotsawa, Milarepa, Arya Tara and Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche.

TRACK LIST:

May My Mind Turn to Others (folk)
Just A Seed Waiting to Grow
Just A Seed Waiting to Grow (pop)
Prince
My King
Machig
Guru Father Repa
Dölma
May My Mind Turn to Others (lullaby)
Sleep/Wake
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