Bamboo Gamelan of Bali [IMPORT]

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Product Details

• Audio CD (August 16, 1994)
• Original Release Date: September 12, 1994
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Creative Music Prod.
• ASIN: B000008NN4
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #263,200 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Track Listings

1. Tabuh Pengawit: Gending Truntungan

2. Tabuh Jagra Winungu

3. Tabuh Gegenderan

4. Tabuh Endung Geriya

5. Tabuh Pengalus

6. Tabuh Gegilakan Penutup

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars fabulous album; a must have for your world-music collection, March 19, 2004

By	Boer Poel (the Netherlands) - See all my reviews

Wonderful dynamic hypno-instruments! I once heard a bamboo Gamelan play live in a museum here in Holland, Delft (or was it The Hague...?), constant buzzing of the lower pipes & sudden melody rhythm volume-changes are incredible... your brain sends it to every part of your body. ~Very warm sound overall, still the Jegog produces the same aggressive peaks as in the metal-made Gamelans. Check this out LOUD. ;-)

Enjoy,
John.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Power of the jegog, June 20, 2003

By	Jeff Phillips (BC) - See all my reviews

I first became familiar with the sound of the jegog from listening to the Akira soundtrack, a japanese anime movie whose score, by the amateur music group Geinoh Yamashirogumi, made terrific use of this wonderful instrument. I borrowed this CD from the library several years ago but have never been able to find a copy elswhere... Enjoying this music may require letting go of any concepts you may have about music. The liner notes describe it as being a call to work in a Balinese community. It's easy to imagine the sound of the enourmous jegogan, a bamboo tube some 10 feet in length and 1 1/2 feet in diameter, carrying for miles, like the nearly subsonic call of the elephant. It's smaller cousins generate the energetic, pulsating tones that resonate with warmth. The overall effect is at once celestial and deeply rooted in the earth. I'd recommend playing this very loudly, on a high wattage system with subs, this is music in a distilled, primal, yet highly evolved form, it is meant to be felt with the whole body and not just heard.