Bali: Gamelan Semar Pegulingan / Gamelan of the Love God
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Track Listing
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News & Reviews
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David Lewiston passed away in Hawaii on May 29, 2017, at the age of 88, after an extended illness. The inveterate traveler-musicologist was among the first to release recordings as part of the Nonesuch Explorer Series, which presented indigenous music from around the world, in the late 1960s. His first recording in the series, Music from the Morning of the World, featuring field recordings from Bali, was inducted into the National Recording Registry of "culturally significant" sound recordings in 2008. Here, the musician, producer, and writer Brian Cullman offers a remembrance.
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About This Album
Of the many kinds of gamelan to be found on the tiny island of Bali, none evokes a more ethereal and enchanted sound world than the rare gamelan of the love god, Gamelan Semar Pegulingan. This album features the celebrated gamelan performing works derived from the old Semar Pegulingan traditions but strongly influenced stylistically by dynamic innovations of 20th-century Balinese music.
Credits
Originally released in 1972
Recorded in Teges Kanyinan, Pliatan, Bali by Robert E. Brown
Coordinator: Teresa Sterne
Re-mastered by Robert C. Ludwig
Design: Doyle Partners
Cover Photograph: © Henri Cartier-Bresson / Magnum Photos
Additional Photographs: Robert E. Brown
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Of the many kinds of gamelan to be found on the tiny island of Bali, none evokes a more ethereal and enchanted sound world than the rare gamelan of the love god, Gamelan Semar Pegulingan. This album features the celebrated gamelan performing works rooted in tradition but strongly influenced stylistically by dynamic innovations of 20th-century Balinese music.
Of the many kinds of gamelan to be found on the tiny island of Bali, none evokes a more ethereal and enchanted sound world than the rare gamelan of the love god, Gamelan Semar Pegulingan. This album features the celebrated gamelan performing works derived from the old Semar Pegulingan traditions but strongly influenced stylistically by dynamic innovations of 20th-century Balinese music.
Originally released in 1972
Recorded in Teges Kanyinan, Pliatan, Bali by Robert E. Brown
Coordinator: Teresa Sterne
Re-mastered by Robert C. Ludwig
Design: Doyle Partners
Cover Photograph: © Henri Cartier-Bresson / Magnum Photos
Additional Photographs: Robert E. Brown

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