Schubert Club Gamelan Ensemble, Sumarah - 47m 59s

Tracks & Durations

1. Puspawarna	5:02
2. Parisuka Suite	10:25
3. Tropongbang	7:58
4. Swara Suling - Reogan	4:39
5. Kutut Manggung - Manuk - Kuda Nyongklang	17:10
6. Sumarah	2:42

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Review

Scintillating percussion music - traditional and contemporary - for the gamelan orchestra of Java. The large hanging gongs and other metallophones of the gamelan orchestra produce some of the most sophisticated percussion music in the world. Ranging from the dreamy and contemplative to the loud and boisterous, the music on "Sumarah" illustrates the gamelan's versatility and subtlety. Gamelan is one of the world's great musical traditions - a fact indicated by NASA's decision to include a recording of gamelan music on the gold "calling card" sent with the Voyager spacecraft to worlds beyond our solar system. The same piece of traditional court music that NASA chose, "Puspawarna," was chosen by The Schubert Club Gamelan Ensemble as the opening track on this disc. The suite "Parisuka" illustrates a relatively recent trend in gamelan music called "penataan," which is medley of pieces of contrasting mood. Unlike the rest of the music on the disc, "Swara Suling"! ! is by a known composer, Bapak Nardo Sabdo. Here it is given a lively, Balinese-flavored treatment, and ends with a trombone obbligato. "Tropongbang" and "Kutut Manggung" are more traditional music, and illustrate some of the marvelous transformations that gamelan music can undergo as the players cycle repeatedly through a piece. The title track "Sumarah" brings the disc to a rousing close. Its name is one of those hard-to-translate terms - it seems to mean something like, "we've done our best with this offering; how it is received is out of our hands." Not a bad title for a CD by a group of foreigners who had the temerity to record traditional gamelan repertoire!

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