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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.
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.
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