Commonality

New Jakarta Ensemble | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 14, 1999)
• Original Release Date: September 14, 1999
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Siam Records
• ASIN: B00000K26T
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,024,900 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Kubang Berlumut: The Moss Covered Pond

2. Mantra Parompak: Mantra To Ward Off Evil Spirits

3. Paco Paco: Broken Piece

4. Flea Market

5. Commonality

6. Commonality II

Customer Reviews

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4.0 out of 5 stars Engaging performance, June 13, 2009

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S. Miller (Santa Rosa, California USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Commonality (Audio CD)

This CD has a companion DVD made during the recording, that shows the artists and the studio arrangement. An engaging and impressive exotic performance work that draws you in, as if you were present at the session. Highly recommended. Get the CD too because the audio quality is far superior.

5.0 out of 5 stars Provocatively Primal, February 14, 2006

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Stargrazer "the lost mixtape of my life" (deep in the heart of Michigan) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Commonality (Audio CD)

Reknowned Indonesian multi-instrumentalist Tony Prabowo helms this often witchy and unnerving voyage into his home islands' culture, during which disconnected chanting, sudden malevolent laughter and tangled shamanic voices conspire to totally unwire unprepared listeners. Prabowo and a talented ensemble of East-meets-West musicians infuse this recording with an underlying atmosphere of menace which is tangible and carefully detailed.

Rich with Indonesian folklore and improvisation, this frequently ominous and paranoia-inducing CD from 1999 mines areas of the human psyche where gods and monsters lurk. "Commonality" is provocatively primal without ever being numbing.