Sunda Song

1. Anjeun (You)
Composed by Nano Suratno
with Evergreen Club Gamelan

2. Work(s) Jeruk Bali (Sweet Grapefruit) (Anon.) / Kunang Kunang (Fireflies)
Composed by Sundanese Traditional
with Evergreen Club Gamelan

3. Pengkolan (On the Corner)
Composed by Nano Suratno
with Evergreen Club Gamelan

4. Arang Arang
Composed by Sundanese Traditional
with Evergreen Club Gamelan

5. Sorban Palid (Turban Floating Away)
Composed by Sundanese Traditional
with Evergreen Club Gamelan

6. Kalangkang (Illusion)
Composed by Nano Suratno
with Evergreen Club Gamelan

7. Tina Jandela (From The Window)
Composed by Mang Koko Koswara
with Bill Parker, Blair Mackay

8. Samagaha (Solar Eclipse)
Composed by Burhan Sukarma
with Evergreen Club Gamelan

Editorial Reviews

Product Description
Evergreen Club Contemporary Gamelan is an ensemble of eight professional Canadian musicians with classical western musical training and extensive performance experience. They perform and record on an extended gamelan Degung indigenous to the Indonesian province of West Java (Sunda). Founded in 1983 and based in Toronto, Canada, this unique performing ensemble is dedicated to the development and expansion of its repertoire through the commissioning of new works by composers from Canada and around the world, as well as performing traditional Sundanese music. This recording presents a selection of such traditional pieces together with recent works by Sundanese composers, all in new arrangements by Evergreen Club members.

Tracks:

You
Sweet Grapefruit/Fireflies
On The Corner
Arang Arang
Turban Floating Away
Illusion
From The Window
Solar Eclipse

Album Description

Evergreen Club Contemporary Gamelan is an ensemble of eight professional Canadian musicians with classical western musical training and extensive performance experience. They perform and record on an extended gamelan Degung indigenous to the Indonesian province of West Java (Sunda). Founded in 1983 and based in Toronto, Canada, this unique performing ensemble is dedicated to the development and expansion of its repertoire through the commissioning of new works by composers from Canada and around the world, as well as performing traditional Sundanese music. This recording presents a selection of such traditional pieces together with recent works by Sundanese composers, all in new arrangements by Evergreen Club members.

Customer Reviews:

A soothing escape to a tropical paradise.......2005-03-12

The title says it all. It is an experience of music from another culture which in my mind is associated with a tropical paradise which I imagine existed prior to Dutch colonialism of now present day Indonesia. The gamelan orchestra consists of various sizes of suspended metallophones (percussion instruments with tuned metal bars), small bulbed gongs, large suspended gongs, and drums. With the soft gentle percussive nature of the music, the experience that I get from it is an expression of the slower tranquilizing rhythms of nature. This album is well worth the $9.98 for anyone looking to explore other realms of music.

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