Music For The Gods The Fahnestock South Sea Expedition : Indonesia

Regions : Eastern Java ; Madura - Bali
Label : Rykodisc, Salem MA

Series Endangered Music Project Recording Bruce & Sheridan Fahnestock Issue 1994, from 78 rpm Number RCD 10315 Price

ADD Duration 52’36” 22 pages booklet in English

A number of 78 rpms containing gamelan music remained forgotten in an attic during more than forty years. The acetate coating of these discs was starting to fall off. It would have meant the annihilation of one of the rare aural testimonies of pre-2^nd World War gamelan. In december 1986, the precious discs are given to the Library of Congress and are always part, today, of its archives. In the scope of the Endangered Music Project, these discs have been copied onto this compact disc.

From the very first track, the listener is sent back to the beginning of the 40's, inside a Balinese village, next to a gamelan full of delicacy, of love, of femininity. This first track represents 4’24” of joy and that goes on with the second. Among the compact disc's thirteen tracks, four are of this gamelan, a gong semar pegulingan.

Recordings

Track		Duration	Genre		Place		Date
1.	Tabuh Gari	4’24”	gong semar pegulingan		Teges, Bali		1941
2.	Sekar Ginotan	4’32”
3.	Pedat	3’11”	tongtong (seléndro)		Madura		June 3, 1941
4.	Gendéran	4’16”	gong kebyar		Ubud, Bali		1941
5.	Tulang Lidung	3’47”	gendér wayang
6.	Not mentioned	1’35”	keréjing solo		Arjasa, Kangéan islands		June 5, 1941
7.	Lagu Dindang	4’46”	sandur (seléndro)		Waru, Madura		June 3, 1941
8.	Merak Ngelo	4’12”	gong semar pegulingan		Teges, Bali		1941
9.	Gambang	4’16”	gong kebyar		Ubud, Bali
10.	Not mentioned	5’27”	kècak		south Bali
11.	Abimañu	3’29”	gendér wayang		Ubud, Bali
12.	Gambangan	3’16”	gong semar pegulingan		Teges, Bali
13.	Dandang Gendis	5’18”	mamaca (pèlog)		Sumenep, Madura		June 3, 1941

 

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