| View Larger Image | Sunda Song | Audio CDMang Koko Koswara (Composer), Burhan Sukarma (Composer), Nano Suratno (Composer), Sundanese Traditional (Composer), Evergreen Club Gamelan (Composer), Blair Mackay (Composer)
| List Price: | $9.99 | | | Available: | Usually ships in 24 hours |
| | Binding: | Audio CD | | Studio: | Naxos | | Release Date: | October 19, 2004 | | Sales Rank: | 297,927th |
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TRACK LISTING |
Disc: 1
- Track 1: Anjeun [You]
- Track 2: Jeruk Bali/Kunang Kunang [Sweet Grapefruit/Fireflies]
- Track 3: Pengkolan [On the Corner]
- Track 4: Arang Arang
- Track 5: Sorban Palid [Turban Floating Away]
- Track 6: Kalangkang [Illusion]
- Track 7: Tina Jandela [From the Window]
- Track 8: Samagaha [Solar Eclipse]
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EDITORIAL REVIEWS |
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. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.5 based on 2 reviews)
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Solid Modern Gamelan by Djpolarbear (Seattle, WA)  4 Stars
February 25, 2008
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.
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A soothing escape to a tropical paradise by K. Lester  5 Stars
March 12, 2005
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.
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