19 December 2019

iRENA & VOJTĚCH HAVEL - Tajemná Gamelánie (1992)


Very intimate and beautiful ambiente improvisation on set of Balinese gamelan instruments.


CD TomK 1992

Listen at my mixcloud

19 comments:

  1. I will admit that I don't get around much but I haven't heard anything quite like this. It is very beautiful and engaging music. Thank you for giving the opportunity to hear it.

    ReplyDelete
  2. Hi Milo - I really would like to hear this music. But I can't access the link. Not with a proxy-site nor with a vpn. And without the two "helps" I cannot access the link / website at all.
    So maybe you could - if time permits - to another hoster.

    ReplyDelete
  3. millo2 and Ernst,

    Excuse me for sticking my nose in but I would be happy to upload the files to mediafire and share a link, if that would help and if I am not stepping on any toes.

    Nick

    ReplyDelete
  4. HI Nick s - thanks for sticking your nose in - I really would appreciate a link from Mediafire. Thanks in advance (I think Milo won't object....Milo?)

    ReplyDelete
  5. Hi from Italy and thanx for all, and expecially for this.....i'm very interested in fusion between gamelan & jazz, if someone have some other suggestions, please write them in these comments :-)
    Have a nice Xmas, also !

    ReplyDelete
  6. Influenced by Balinese music is f.e. Anthony Davis 'Episteme' - no Indonesian instruments are used but definitely with obvious influences from Gamelan (and Kecak) music.

    ReplyDelete
  7. I haven't used mediafire for a while but I think this will work.

    http://www.mediafire.com/file/vlf99b84cyjfeju/Irena_%2526_Vojt%25C4%259Bch_Havel_-_1992_Tajemn%25C3%25A1_Gamel%25C3%25A1nie_FLAC.7z/file

    ReplyDelete
  8. Thank you Nick s for the new link! I'm really curious about the music. Thanks again!!

    ReplyDelete
  9. A pleasant listen, though more veering towards new age than jazz, I thought (hence the title). I do have some gamelan myself, mostly on cassette and cd, picked up on several trips to Jakarta. It varies in style, depending on which parts of Java (and Bali) it's coming from (Yogyakarta, Bandung or Surabaya).

    ReplyDelete
  10. For a real fusion between Gamelan music and jazz, I know only two records by André Jaume
    https://www.discogs.com/fr/André-Jaume-With-Sapto-Raharjo-Gamelan-Orchestra-Guest-Rémi-Charmasson-Merapi/release/2969112
    https://www.discogs.com/fr/André-Jaume-Sapto-Raharjo-Borobudur-Suite/release/2969077
    There is also this record with Suzanna Santos Silva who join the band of Jonas Kulammar, the basement session vol 4
    https://www.discogs.com/fr/Aalberg-Kullhammar-Zetterberg-Santos-Silva-Basement-Sessions-Vol4-The-Bali-Tapes/release/11555490
    but in my memory the gamelan is very quiet and the Balinese influences is very light.
    Of course there is also the record by Tony Scott and the Indonesian allstars, here there is no gamelan but some compositions are totally influenced by Indonesian music in its largest meaning.
    https://www.discogs.com/fr/Tony-Scott-2-And-The-Indonesian-All-Stars-Djanger-Bali/release/821245

    ReplyDelete
  11. Thanks all for reaction. In between I did another upload on
    Google drive

    ReplyDelete
  12. very beautiful, and quiet in respect of other gamelan music I listened to. very different.
    I understand that gamelan music doesnt follow a determined pattern, but is centered more on the set of instrumets, and maybe there are different kinds of gamelan music.
    anyway, thank you

    ReplyDelete
  13. Thanx Ernst and correctsilence for the suggestions, i knew the Tony Scott record but not the others, i will give a listen, thanx again

    ReplyDelete
  14. Thank you very much for this, miloo2. I have been returning to this for several nights now and it never fails to draw me in, especially the second half. Lovely music.

    ReplyDelete
  15. I think it's lovely. Thanks for sharing it.

    ReplyDelete
  16. This is amazing. What a find! The only thing I can compare it to is some of the things that Michael Ranta has done, e.g. for Jean-Claude Eloy, but with a different Asian point of departure.

    ReplyDelete