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Mang Koko Koswara, Burhan Sukarma, Nano Suratno
Sunda Song
Genres: International Music, Special Interest, Pop

Track Listings (8) - Disc #1
1. Anjeun (You) - Evergreen Club Contemporary Gamelan, Suratno, Nano
2. Jeruk Bali (Sweet Grapefruit) (Anon.) / Kunang Kunang (Fireflie [Sweet - Evergreen Club Contemporary Gamelan, Anonymous
3. Pengkolan (On the Corner) - Evergreen Club Contemporary Gamelan, Suratno, Nano
4. Arang Arang - Evergreen Club Contemporary Gamelan, Traditional Sundane
5. Sorban Palid (Turban Floating Away) - Evergreen Club Contemporary Gamelan, Traditional Sundane
6. Kalangkang (Illusion) - Evergreen Club Contemporary Gamelan, Suratno, Nano
7. Tina Jandela (From The Window) - Evergreen Club Contemporary Gamelan, Koswara, Mang Koko
8. Samagaha (Solar Eclipse) - Evergreen Club Contemporary Gamelan, Sukarma, Burhan

CD Details

All Artists: Mang Koko Koswara, Burhan Sukarma, Nano Suratno, Sundanese Traditional, Evergreen Club Gamelan
Title: Sunda Song
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: Naxos
Release Date: 10/19/2004
Genres: International Music, Special Interest, Pop
Style:
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 636943706121

Synopsis

Album Description

Evergreen Club Contemporary Gamelan is an ensemble of eight professional Canadian musicians with classical western musical training and extensive performance experience. They perform and record on an extended gamelan Degung indigenous to the Indonesian province of West Java (Sunda). Founded in 1983 and based in Toronto, Canada, this unique performing ensemble is dedicated to the development and expansion of its repertoire through the commissioning of new works by composers from Canada and around the world, as well as performing traditional Sundanese music. This recording presents a selection of such traditional pieces together with recent works by Sundanese composers, all in new arrangements by Evergreen Club members.

CD Reviews

Solid Modern Gamelan

Djpolarbear | Seattle, WA | 02/25/2008

(4 out of 5 stars)

"The Evergreen Club Gamelan is a very talented Canadian group only made better on this release by the talents of some legendary Indonesian players and composers. This is some very lively and vibrant Gamelan Degung; which is somewhere between the ponderous Central Javanese Gamelan and the manic speed of Balinese. Finally I want to note that this is one of the best recorded Gamelans that I've heard in recent memory."

A soothing escape to a tropical paradise

K. Lester | 03/12/2005

(5 out of 5 stars)

"The title says it all. It is an experience of music from another culture which in my mind is associated with a tropical paradise which I imagine existed prior to Dutch colonialism of now present day Indonesia. The gamelan orchestra consists of various sizes of suspended metallophones (percussion instruments with tuned metal bars), small bulbed gongs, large suspended gongs, and drums. With the soft gentle percussive nature of the music, the experience that I get from it is an expression of the slower tranquilizing rhythms of nature. This album is well worth the $9.98 for anyone looking to explore other realms of music."