artist : Jack Body
title : Suara: Environmental Music from Java
date : 1993
label : Ode Records
cat# : n/a
genre : Other
release date: 03.12.2008
street date : 00.00.1993
tracks : 11
bitrate : avg. 186kbps
size : 91,9 MB
source : CDDA
type : Album
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http://www.discogs.com/release/321667
Okay guys, there will be some indonesian traditional music /
gamelan rips by pyt durring the next month.. so rub your
hands friends of world music...
A gamelan is a kind of musical ensemble of Indonesia
typically featuring a variety of instruments such as
metallophones, xylophones, drums, and gongs; bamboo flutes,
bowed and plucked strings, and vocalists may also be
included. The term refers more to the set of instruments
than the players of those instruments. A gamelan as a set of
instruments is a distinct entity, built and tuned to stay
together ∙ instruments from different gamelan are not
interchangeable.
The word "gamelan" comes from the Javanese word "gamel",
meaning to strike or hammer, and the suffix "an", which
makes the root a collective noun
This one is more in the realms of field recordings...
Jack Body (Born 1944) is a New Zealand composer,
photographer, artist and ethnomusicologist.
He studied at Auckland University from 1963√67. With a QEII
Arts Council grant he attended the Ferien Kurse fur Neue
Musik, Cologne and Institute of Sonology, Utrecht,
Netherlands (1969√70). For two years (1976√77) he was a
guest lecturer at the Akademi Musik Indonesia, Yogyakarta
and since 1980 he has lectured at the School of Music,
Victoria University of Wellington.
His music covers almost all genres, including solo and
chamber music, orchestral music, music-theatre, music for
dance and film as well as electroacoustic music. A
fascination with the music and cultures of Asia,
particularly Indonesia, has been a strong influence on his
music. His ethnomusicological recordings include Music for
Sale: Street Musicians of Yogyakarta (OMCD 006, and TC
HLS-91), Music of Madura (CD ODE 1381) and Jemblung: Sung
Narrative Traditions (PAN 2048CD).
His music has been played widely and by such performers as
Lontano, Kronos Quartet, ARC, the New Zealand String
Quartet, the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, the BBC
Symphony Orchestra and so on. He also works in experimental
photography and computer-controlled sound-image
installations, having received commissions from several
public galleries. His opera Alley was premiered to wide
acclaim at the 1998 New Zealand International Festival of
the Arts. But his composition best known to the New Zealand
public is the 1975 theme to the TV sitcom, Close to Home.
As a promoter of New Zealand music he has organised a series
of Sonic Circuses, simultaneous multi-venue music marathons.
He is the Director of Waiteata Music Press which publishes
scores of New Zealand music, and has edited numerous CDs of
New Zealand music. Jack Body was artistic director for the
Asia-Pacific Festivals and Conferences in 1984 and 1992,
which focused on the music (traditional and contemporary) of
New Zealand and its Asia-Pacific neighbours.
Recordings of his music include Suara (Ode CD Manu 1380),
electroacoustic compositions using field recordings from
Indonesia, Sacred and Profane (Ode Portal CD 1004), three
large scale works for voices and Pulse (Rattle D009), a
series of five works based on transcriptions from
traditional music. Pulse won the 2002 New Zealand Music
Award for Best Classical CD and in 2003 Waiteata Music Press
released a Composer Portrait on CD.
In 1985 he received the Composers' Association of New
Zealand Citation for Services to New Zealand music and in
2001 he was honoured with an OMNZ in the New Year's Honours.
In 2004, the Arts Foundation of New Zealand presented him
with a Laureate Award.x
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01-Prelude: Azan (Call To Prayer) 01:26
02-Duets and Choruses 10:57
03-Interlude: Ciblon (Water Play) 01:04
04-Music Anak-Anak (Children's Music) 13:27
05-Interlude: Dremenan (Rice Stalk Music) 01:31
06-Fanfares 11:56
07-Interlude: Gua Tabuhan (Stone Music) 01:31
08-Jangkrik Genggong 10:32
09-Interlude: Kotekan (Rice Pounding Music) 01:34
10-Musik Mulut (Mouth Music) 11:09
11-Epilogue: Sawangan (Pigeon Whistles) 01:35
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66:42 min