Trance Gong

Gamelan Pacifica (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 28, 1998)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: What Next Records
• ASIN: B0000064UD
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #625,549 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Small Of My Back

2. Rain

3. Trance Gong

4. Peaches Of Immortality

5. Gending Erhu

6. In A Landscape

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Audiophilism in exchange for Authenticism, June 28, 2000

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jaime rivera (austin, tx) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Trance Gong (Audio CD)

I came to Gamelan Pacifica's page to see if they had another release aside from Trance Gong, which I own, and, lamentably, it's their only release. I've had a chance to sample various, Javanese and Balinese gamelan music, and I admit that finding "audiophile" recordings of these are quite rare. If you love the warm, glowing tones of this music and don't want to hear an excess of live concert noise that seems typical of this genre, buy this CD; I was pleased to find the quality of audio recording so high. Whereas a few tracks are of a fast tempo, most of the songs are of a quiet, pensive mood. Drawing upon the Javanese gamelan tradition and synthesizing their own, Trance Gong (based in the Northwest U.S.) occasionally inserts a wind or string instrument into their compositions. One of the last two tracks is my absolute favorite. I often hit *repeat* on the CD player and leave that song to play all night. It is what dreams are made of.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Unmitigated Listening Pleasure, July 11, 2009

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Karl W. Nehring (Ostrander, OH USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Trance Gong (Audio CD)

Quoting from the liner notes: "Gamelan Pacifica is a professional ensemble in residence at the Cornish College of Arts in Seattle. Inspired by the gong/chime orchestras of Java and Bali (collectively known as gamelan), the ensemble performs new and innovative music in an international style ..." To my western ears, traditional gamelan music is enjoyable, but a little goes a long way. Trance Gong contains music that has more stylistic and sonic variety than traditional gamelan, however, and the net result is an hour of unmitigated pleasure for the listener.