The Fahnestock South Sea Expedition (1994) ...
Recorded direct to aluminum/cellulose acetate disc in 1941, by brothers Bruce and Sheridan Fahnestock ...
Taboehgan/Gamelan Semar Pegulingan. Ubud [Teges], Bali, 1941 ...
Music For The Gods is the second release in the Endangered
Music Project, a series curated by Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart
featuring material from the Library of Congress' American Folklife
Center. This album captures the musical traditions of the Indonesian
archipelago as it existed in 1941, when brothers Bruce and Sheridan
Fahnestock recorded the indigenous musics of Bali, Java, Madura and
Arjasa with (then) state-of-the-art Presto disc-cutters. The album
preserves cultural traditions as they were prior to the westernization
brought by WWII and presents a marked achievement in the restoration of
deteriorating cellulose-acetate discs. Tracks feature the sweet and
delicate sounds of the gambuh orchestra with its four bamboo flutes, the interlocking rhythms of the gamelan gong, the distinctive humming of the krejing harp, and vocal choruses performing ritual ceremonies with song and dance. Music For The Gods: The Fahnestock South Sea Expedition: Indonesia was issued in 1994 as part of “THE WORLD” series (now part of the Mickey Hart Collection made available by Smithsonian Folkways)... folkways.si.edu ...
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Kaleidoscope of Rainbows ...
British jazz fusion of the 70s in all it's glory ...Theme and variations, all based on a Balinese pentatonic scale...
Neil Ardley (director, synthesizer) : Ian Carr (trumpet, flugelhorn) :
Barbara Thompson, Tony Coe, Brian Smith, Bob Bertles (saxophone,
woodwind) : Paul Buckmaster (cello) : Ken Shaw (guitar) :
Geoff Castle, Dave McRae or John Taylor (electric piano,
synthesizer) : Roger Sutton (bass guitar) : Roger Sellers (drums) :
Trevor Tomkins (percussion)
Prologue and Rainbows 1 to 4 ...
2004 Re-issue marking death of Neil Ardley ...
"For Rainbows Ardley nodded back to Greek Variations,
this time developing the suite from the basic five note pelog scale
used in Balinese music. It was also the album in which he first explored
proto-electronic music—there are three, count 'em, synthesisists
here—which became a key interest of his in the late '70s/early '80s.
The
suite's seven movements, ranging in mood from the gentle and pastoral
to the fiery and urgent, are seriously enjoyable through-compositions in
their own right, and also the settings for a series of glistening solos
from Ian Carr, Brian Smith, Dave Macrae, Geoff Castle, Paul Buckmaster,
Barbara Thompson, Tony Coe, Ken Shaw, and Bob Bertles—with Buckmaster's
electric cello on "Rainbow Three," Thompson's soprano on "Four," and
Coe's clarinet on "Five" approaching the sublime." ...www.allaboutjazz.com ...
