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> From: andrei@world.std.com
> Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 12:52 AM
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> James R McPherson wrote:
> > When one of the fellas in Autechre was on the
> > list (about 2 years ago) this thread came up
> > - when I posed a similar query he (dunno which
> > one) responded with a very long list of
> > excellent recordings, where to get them, what
> > to listen for, and where to travel to hear
> > gamelan "orchestras". Unfortunately, almost
> > all of his recommendations were available
> > only in Indonesia.
>
> It would be great to see this post if anyone has
> it in their archives. I guess it's in the idm-
> archives, but since I wouldn't know when it was
> posted I'm not about to search through all those
> huge files.
I keep a local copy of the archives, and searching for
specific text in all the files is pretty easy, so
here's what I found:
As near as I can tell, Autechre were
lota@pop3.demon.co.uk on the list. They left the list
in June, 1999. [BTW, there's an excellent post from
Graham H Freeman (Sean and Rob Redux) halfway down
that month's archive which summarizes and analyzes the
situation.]
Anyways, back to the point, unless they also posted
from a different address and I'm just missing
something, the only post from Sean or Rob regarding
gamelan music is this:
"check out all basf "world sound" cassette releases.
they have relased shitloads of otherwise unheard
gamelan stuff internationally and its really cheap.
also contact universitas warmadewa in denpasar. much
stuff there."
However, there's a tonne of other info about gamelan
to be uncovered in that month's archive, and I'll
paste the rest of what I found at the end of this so
you all don't have to go searching for it. First,
though, I'd just like to comment that the archives are
an amazing resource, and a lot of fun to peruse every
once in a while, too! There are great gems and
nuggets of information in there, as well as
interesting quotes and reviews... But I digress;
just, everyone should give it a glance now and then!
Here's some gamelan info I found (from different
people):
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Check out Robert Macht's
"Suite for Javanese Gamelan and *Synthesizer*". Yes,
it is as good as you
probably are imagining right now. They have it at
cdnow (with sound samples).
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[someone recommended] Music For The Gods: The
Fahnestock South Sea Expedition: Indonesia
Label: RYKO ,1994
Recorded in Indonesia in 1941.
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My favorite Gamelan) is on a budget "World" label (
maybe budget...
I'm guessing as I got them cheap ) is "Degung
Sabilulungan,
Music of West Java, Vols 1+ 2" The label is Interra.
I've heard a lot
of Gamelan inluding the joemull mentioned, " Music for
the Gods".
The above 2 discs are *highly* recommended.
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just picked up a used copy of "music from the morning
of the world: the
balinese gamelan & ketjak: the ramayana monkey chant"
on
nonesuch/explorer. excellent stuff - it was recorded
in 1966 and features
some great playing. I wasn't sure when I picked it up
what the monkey
chant would be, but my suspicions were correct. if
you've seen the movie
'baraka,' [I think] there's a sequence with a group of
people seated in
concentric circles, chanting rapidly and moving their
arms in the air.
that's the monkey chant - on the CD a 22 minute
recording of its enactment
of the ramayana, monkey hordes rushing to aid prince
rama in his battle
with the evil king ravana. "complete with monkey
chorus"
in general the balinese gamelan music is much faster
than that of java or
sumatra, but local styles of music vary widely across
the population of
213+ million on 6000 islands as do the various
classical and folk musics.
thus the 17 so-far volumes of the smithsonian folkways
series, all of
which are amazing, I'm sure. I only have volume 8.
there's a page of gamelan-related links at
http://www.gamelan.org/AGI/jd.websites.html
and short reviews of gamelan CDs here:
http://www.xs4all.nl/~gjvo/gamelan/gamelan_reviews.html
directory of gamelan groups in the US, canada and
europe
http://www.glue.umd.edu/~satu/gamelan/list.htm
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and thus ends my blantant stealing of other people's
information. There's probably more to be found...
-Adam
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