| Budiman, Uun And The Jugala Gamelan Orchestra / Banondari: New Directions In Jaipongan |
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| Album: | Banondari: New Directions In Jaipongan | Collection: | World | |
| Artist: | Budiman, Uun And The Jugala Gamelan Orchestra | Added: | Jan 2007 | |
| Label: | Felmay | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2007-03-04 | Pull Date: | 2007-05-06 | Charts: | Reggae/World |
| Week Ending: | Apr 29 | Apr 8 | Mar 11 |
| Airplays: | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Apr 27, 2007: | No Cover, No Minimum Bentang Panggung | 3. | Mar 08, 2007: | Radio Experiment #8 Banondari-Ulah Ceurik | |
| 2. | Apr 06, 2007: | No Cover, No Minimum Bentang Panggung | ||||
| Album Review |
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| Sadie O. Reviewed 2007-03-12 | ||
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Reviewed by Sadie O., 3/2/07 Popular Gamelan, as developed while Sukarno was banning all Western music and instruments. The orchestra sounds pretty straight-up gamelan to my untrained ears, but the singing is definitely distinctive. You experimental fans should dig the heck out of this. I find it pretty cool in bite-sized chunks. I could actually see playing this alongside Siouxsie and the Banshees or Nina Hagen or Yoko Ono… All in Javanese, no FCCs that I can possibly imagine. I like the first track – and not just because I wasn’t worn out when I heard it. Interesting stuff… 1. ***sprightly uptempo gamelon with distinctly pop sensibilities, and a definite bit of movie soundtrack theatricality. Complex and quite pretty alto female vocals, and all sorts of odd male growls and howls in background. 2. **beat starts and stops all over the place. Dramatic vocals. Percussion is particularly interesting. 3. **uptempo (mostly) but with lots of random bits. It’s pretty hard to follow this, frankly! 4. *OK, really it’s pretty much the same sort of thing throughout. I think this cut may be on the whole a bit more subdued, but it’s hard to tell… 5. *this one definitely seems like a bit of a lament, but who knows? 6. **Very slow and subdued intro. I’m sort of seeing the heroine lost in the wild jungle, trying to avoid the scary Javanese demons, but I could just be weird. (I’m pretty sure she gets captured at the end…) 7. *low-key random intro. Gets manic after a couple of minutes. 8. *similar. | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | Banondari-Ulah Ceurik | 5. | Bendrong Kajawen | |||
| 2. | Bentang Panggung | 6. | Kulu-Kuly Saduna | |||
| 3. | Bulan Sakembaran | 7. | Masket Hate | |||
| 4. | Bayu-Bayu | 8. | Alim Bobogohan Deui |