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In 1985, when vocalist/guitarist/songwriter Walter Salas-Humara recorded a handful of tunes with the help of a dozen and a half friends and collected the songs under the title About Her Steps, he probably wasn't thinking that it was the start of a career in music that's now approaching 20 years and still going strong. No, at that point, he was too busy thinking about, among other things, names. "In the beginning, I didn't want to use my name because I thought it was too hard for people to deal with," explains Salas-Humara when discussing the origin of the Silos name....

Gyume (Lower Tantric College) is one of the two main Tantric orders within the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism, the other being Gyuto. It was founded in Lhasa in 1440 by one of Jé Tsongkhapa's students, Sherab Senge (1383-1445). Tibetan Buddhist monks chant in a seeming monotone that is rich in overtones. The chants are usually Buddhist scriptures chanted in Tibetan or Pali. .

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Blac Monks is a southern rap group consisting of Mr. 3-2, Da and Awol. In 1995 they released their debut album, Secrets of the Hidden Temple, on Rap-A-Lot Records. In 1998, Raheem and Quiet Storm joined Blac Monks on the album No Mercy. From Wikipedia .

A breakthrough for Iowa City hip-hop, 85 Decibel Monks - the latest from scene fixture Tack-Fu - is as much a treatise on locality as it is a statement of the role that the digital gear and Internet technology can play in the artistic process. Recorded gradually since the Monks dropped the scattershot beats and rhymes of 2000's Chained Reaction, 85 Decibel Monks - the third release masterminded by Tack-Fu (a.k.a. Tim Tack behind the production-team banner) - is a wide arc of voices, textures, and moods that not only reflects where the music springs from but lays out the...