On Tue, 2 Mar 1999, Marc 3 Poirier wrote:
| > plus you can hear the first efforts of tom's gamelan orchestra in two
| > of the tracks
| What is a gamelan orchestra?
An Indonesian percussion orchestra. Lots of
bell-like sounds, tuned fairly close to intervals
on a tempered scale, but not quite. Gamelan is
the traditional dance music of Indonesia.
Strangely, I found the feel of Oval's 'Systemisch'
a bit similar to some of the slower passages in
gamelan stuff... I can't really justify it, except
for the rhythms being hard to follow, and the
quite harmonically simple, clear tones.
Michael
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