The Trinkhor group is going to release and present their new album “Trinkhor IV" with 10 new songs.
TRINKHOR I
(produced 1985 at Hansa Studios, Bonn/Germany)
The huge resonance that the Tibetan community gave to our album
„Nangma“ showed us that among the Tibetans there was a great
need for such music. That is why in the year 1985 I produced the second
album called
„Trinkhor I“
with my band called „Potala Band “, which consisted of some German friends like Gregor Verhufen, a great
guitar-player. It was indeed my intention not only to create Tibetan pop songs but also to impress the Tibetan youth with traditional Tibetan music. That is why
I invited some Tibetan musicians from Switzerland, who were charged with this task. It was the very first time
I had contact with Tsering Topden Nelung. He was and still is a great master of the traditional Tibetan music, called Nangma.So „Trinkhor I“ was a successful combination of modern Tibetan and traditional Tibetan music which
created many fans among old and young. Songs like
„Nam Gongi Nyinda “, „Yeshe Norbu“, „Zugdze Yala “
etc. became evergreens, which were covered by many other bands and is even heard nowadays
(2009). My late joke-partner, Namgyal Gonpo Ronge, who was a great entertainer, telling unforgettable
jokes in that album, contributed a great deal to this immense success. He passed away 2007 in
Nepal.
Trinkhor I was also a great success financially. In the end the whole album produced some 100 000.-
Indian Rupees, which were donated to the Council for Tibetan Education in Dharamsala. Because of
some political contents, Trinkhor I was officially forbidden in Tibet, but it found its ways even to the
remote areas of Tibet and also to the Tibetan students in China.
Trinkhor I was our breakthrough and it made us popular among Tibetans in and outside of Tibet.
POTALA BAND:
Gregor Verhufen, Peter Weber, Peter Messing, L. Palden Tawo,
Dawa L. Agytsang, Namgyal Gonpo Ronge.
Traditional Group:
Tsering Topden Nelung, Kelsang Wangchuk, Norbu Tenzin, Kunga Namgyal.