INDONESIA – INDONÉSIE Gamelan of Jogja Kraton – Gamelan of Java – Seven Seas – Ethnic Music of the World Series – GXC 5014

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Gamelan of Jogja Kraton – Gamelan of Java – Seven Seas – Ethnic Music of the World Series – GXC 5014, recorded by Fumio Koizumi in 1972 (LP)

Following our Music from Iran post here, I now present another stupendous recording by musicologist Fumio Koizumi on the Seven Seas label’s essential Ethnic Music of the World Series. This 1972 performance at the Sultan’s Palace of Yogyakarta – featuring the Royal Gamelan ensemble’s enthralling interwoven clusters, eerie voices and chorus, clapping, a whimsical suling flute and a stark, abstract bowed rebab violin – creates a delicate, fluid, seemingly suspended and otherworldly multi-layered tapestry of sound.

 

Suite à notre post Music from Iran ici, je vous présente un autre magnifique enregistrement réalisé par le musicologue Fumio Koizumi sur l'incontournable Ethnic Music of the World Series du label japonais Seven Seas. Ce concert de 1972 de l’ensemble royal au palais du sultan de Yogyakarta – fait de sonorités profondes de gamelans entremêlés, de voix évanescentes, de battements de mains, d’une flûte suling à quatres trous et d’un violon à archet rebab abstrait – forment une tapisserie sonore complexe, délicate, fluide, et éthérée qui reste comme suspendue dans l’espace.

 

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Koizumi Fumio (1927-1983) was a major Japanese ethnomusicologist who studied aesthetics at Tokyo University and Japanese music with Eishi Kikkawa. He taught at Tokyo Geijutsu Daigaku (Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music) and at Wesleyan University in the United-States and recorded many disappearing musical traditions during his numerous field trips across the world. His years of work culminated with the 1981 release of the 50-LP Great Anthology of Traditional Music.

Our other Javanese gamelan posts:

Gamelan Garland – Gamelan Kjai Kanjut Mesem/Mangkunagaran Surakarta (1968) here

Gamelan Kjahi Kaduk, Manis Rengga – Gamelan Music from Java (1963) here

Musique de Java – L'Ecole de Loka Wangi (1971) here

Java – Glagah Wangi Gamelan – Une Nuit de Wayang Kulit (1971) here

Java – Gamelans from the Sultan's Palace in Jogjakarta – Archiv Produktion here

Sunda – Gamelan Degung directed by Enip Sukanda (1972) here

Vintage postcard of Wajang Wayand Orang dancers, Yogyakarta Djokja, Java, c.1910s:

Vintage postcard of masked Wajang Wayand Orang dancer, Java, c.1930s:

 

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