Bali 1928 - Anthology: The First Recordings / Var: Bali 1928 - Anthology: The First Recordings
Bali 1928 - Anthology: The First Recordings / Var: Bali 1928 - Anthology: The First Recordings
Format: CD
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Artist: Bali 1928 - Anthology: The First Recordings / Var
Label: World Arbiter
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 604907201821
Genre: International
A compilation from all five of World Arbiter's volumes of the complete Balinese recordings from 1928, newly remastered in 2015 and released for the first time since the days of 78-RPM shellac. Performances of gamelan gong kebyar, semar pagulingan, gender wayang, palegongan, gambangam pajogedan, gambuh, angklung, suling, tembang, kidung, kakawin, arja geguntangan, janger, cepung, unaccompanied vocals, and topeng. When composer Colin McPhee heard some 78s in New York, brought over by anthropologists just returning from the Dutch East Indies, he immediately set out for Bali and spent several years there, immersing himself in local traditional music and penning definitive texts on their practices. A local record store had discs cut only a few years before his arrival, and soon after McPhee bought his collection, a drunken warehouse manager, faced with the fact that no one on the island owned a record player, destroyed his entire unsold disc inventory out of rage. McPhee's rescued discs remain as some of the only surviving copies of a recorded legacy that even the Balinese never accessed. World Arbiter has collaborated with ethnomusicologist Edward Herbst to locate all known and unknown extant recordings, texts, and context, an Indiana Jones-style global search begun in 1998 that ended up with a Mellon Foundation grant covering restoration, publication, and in situ activities to find anyone alive who was linked to the discs, including a 98-year-old singer who proofread Herbst's transcriptions of her discs. The project went further through McPhee's field notes, photos, and his silent films shot in the 1930s of dancers and ensembles, all accessible on Arbiter's website. The restoration and publication of a complete lost legacy is now a cultural repatriation for the Balinese and listeners everywhere. This anthology also reveals how McPhee placed Balinese genres into Western music, a move that led to the styles of Reich, Riley, and Glass, making McPhee the godfather of minimalism. Includes performances by Gamelan Gong Kebyar Belaluan, Denpasar; Gamelan Gong Kebyar Pangkung; Gamelan Gong Kebyar of Busungbiu; Ida Bagus Oka Kerebuak; Ida Boda; Ni Lemon; Ida Bagus Wayan Buruan & Ida Made Tianyar; Gamelan Semar Pagulingan of Banjar Titih, Denpasar; Gamelan Palegongan of Banjar Tegal, Kuta; Gamelan Gender Wayang of Banjar Tegal, Kuta; Gamelan Pajogedan; Gambuh of Sesetan, Denpasar; Gamelan Angklung Klentangan of Sidan; Gamelan Angklung of Pemogan, Denpasar; Arja Geguntangan of Belaluan, Denpasar; Janger of Kedaton, Denpasar; Janger of Abian Timbul, Denpasar; and Suling of Ubud, Gianyar.
Tracks:
1.1 01. Gamelan Gong Kebyar Belaluan, Denpasar - Kebyar Ding
1.2 02. Gamelan Gong Kebyar Belaluan, Denpasar - Kebyar Ding: Surapati
1.3 03. Gamelan Gong Kebyar Belaluan, Denpasar - Kebyar Ding III: Oncang-Oncangan
1.4 04. Gamelan Gong Kebyar Pangkung - Tabanan
1.5 05. Gamelan Gong Kebyar of Busungbiu - Tabuh Légod Bawa
1.6 06. Ida Bagus Oka Kerebuak - Pangkur
1.7 07. Ida Bagus Oka Kerebuak - Dangdang Gula
1.8 08. Ida Boda - Dangdang Gula I
1.9 09. Ni Lemon - Kidung Wargasari I
1.10 10. Ida Bagus Wayan Buruan ; Ida Madé Tianyar - Kakawin Smaradahana
1.11 11. Gamelan Semar Pagulingan of Banjar Titih, Denpasar - Tabuh Ginanti
1.12 12. Gamelan Semar Pagulingan of Banjar Titih, Denpasar - Tabuh Lasem
1.13 13. Gamelan Palégongan of Banjar Tegal, Kuta - Solo
1.14 14. Gamelan Gendér Wayang of Banjar Tegal, Kuta - Seléndro
1.15 15. Gamelan Gendér Wayang of Banjar Tegal, Kuta - Angkat-Angkatan
1.16 16. Gamelan Pajogédan - Ganderangan
1.17 17. Gambuh of Sésétan, Denpasar - Peperangan Sira Panji Dengan Prabangsa
1.18 18. Gamelan Angklung Kléntangan of Sidan - Ngisep Dublag
1.19 19. Gamelan Angklung of Pemogan, Denpasar - Pangécét Bérong
1.20 20. Arja Geguntangan of Belaluan, Denpasar - Ginada Sampik-Ingtai
1.21 21. Arja Geguntangan of Belaluan, Denpasar - Kidung Jayendriya
1.22 22. Jangér of Kedaton, Denpasar - Mula Tubuh Di Kaléran
1.23 23. Jangér of Abian Timbul, Denpasar - Durma Sudarsana
1.24 24. Jangér of Abian Timbul, Denpasar - Ganda Pura
1.25 25. Suling of Ubud, Gianyar - Lagu Tangis
