artist Global Chilling

Global Chilling plays world beat trip-hop.  Now with a video podcast series on itunes, this is music with a conscience.

The band's first album "Climbing the Tower of Babel" was recorded on location in Tibet, Jordan, Ecuador, Indonesia and the Tsuu T'ina Nation in Alberta, Canada.  It was then produced and mixed in Vancouver and Calgary by band members Akoda U Tse, Glenn Dixon and Andrew Johns.

Recently, the band even received a letter from the office of the Dalai Lama.  "His Holiness appreciates very much your interest and the hard work."  Then it goes on to say " It is very important that the international community have a better idea about Tibet and its people, who have been going through one of the critical periods in our history."

Critical is right. 

Guitarist/vocalist Glenn Dixon travelled recently from Kathmandu over the Himalayas and into Tibet, eventually making it all the way to the holy city of Lhasa.  The trip took ten days and along the way he saw the destruction of the monasteries and the last stand of a buddhist society over a thousand years old.  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2U9ht6k_eU 

More recently, their song "Scattering the Sun" -  a favorite on the User Playlists - found it's way onto a short film for the Discovery Channel:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odQfMFjcDkw