Jetsunma offer three new songs for download from upcoming album

Singer-songwriter Jetsunma releases Trilogy, accompanied by John Lennon's former (post-Beatles) lead guitarist, Wayne "Tex" Gabriel (http://waynegabriel.com), Jimmy Mack, former bass player for Sly and the Family Stone, and drummer Louis Winfield.

Three new songs are now available for download athttp://www.jetsunmamusic.com.

Trilogy is a taste of Jetsunma's latest CD, A Lineage of Queens, to be released in late summer 2009.

Jetsunma's soulful, earthy musical style and to-the-bone lyrics, layered with ancient Buddhist mantra chants, could be described as inspired World Music. Her ultimate hope through music, song and sacred mantra is to uplift the women of the world -- too long suffering their lesser status.

"A Lineage of Queens is, for me, a work of love for the spirit and heart of women, and men who are progressive. It speaks to the lack of empowerment and quality of life that one half of the world's population experiences. In many places, and for a long time, women have been considered property, a servant, unequal. Yet the Buddha teaches, and I believe, that all sentient beings -- ALL without exception -- are equal in their nature and potential. It is my dream and prayer to tell them so. How odd that the very women who are the mothers of nations and their leaders are not allowed, in many places, to have a voice. Here is my offering. Call it view, if you will. A different view of our mothers, sisters, friends, lovers, wives. It is the way of women to think as tribal leaders. We don't climb on top of anybody to get power. We are mothers of the World Tribe. We care for the way of LIFE. And all must benefit equally. My great hope is that we will rise together, see our true nature, and offer our love and wisdom to all," comments Jetsunma.

A Lineage of Queens, in production now, celebrates the heroine, the divine feminine, the promise and resolve of fearlessness and compassion for the benefit of all beings.

"Music City," Nashville was the gathering place where Trilogy was produced. All those present experienced something beyond a typical studio session.

"At first I thought it was just going to be another run-through ... bu then we became captured by it. It was an incredible feeling... transcendent ... hypnotic ... like an altered state of consciousness," said Gabriel who has also performed and/or recorded with Mick Jagger, Eric Clapton and Stevie Wonder.

On the third cut, "Phowa," Jimmy Mack described it like this: "When Tex, Louis and I did the first run-through, everything jelled perfectly, and we only did one more take for the final version. I was so moved by what was happening that I had to leave the studio to re-focus before playing some more."

Jetsunma, a Brooklyn-born western woman and the first to be recognized as a Tibetan Buddhist master, has turned to music to connect and share her vision of a better world.

Visit http://www.jetsunmamusic.com to sample or download three songs: "The Promise," "The Blessing" and "Phowa" from Trilogy and the soon-to-be-released, A Lineage of Queens.