Night Recordings From Bali, by Various Artists

Night Recordings From Bali

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1.	Peliatan Night Walk / Gamelan Rehearsal 02:16	buy track
2.	Gamelan Rehearsal 02:08	buy track
3.	Monkey Forest Night 01:00	buy track
4.	Legian Minstrals 03:18	buy track
5.	Gamelan Gabor #1 03:39	buy track
6.	Rubber Television 01:49	buy track
7.	UFO Gamelan 02:29	buy track
8.	Night Village Barong #1 03:34	buy track
9.	Cremation Procession (Rotating Coffin) 01:10	buy track
10.	Night Lotus Pool 00:43	buy track
11.	Gamelan Gabor #2 04:22	buy track
12.	Ketchak Peliatan 02:43	buy track
13.	Cremation Ceremony 01:14	buy track
14.	Demon Dog Crossroads 01:10	buy track
15.	Night Village Barong #2 02:42	buy track
16.	River Spirits 00:42	buy track
17.	Kuta Quintet 04:19	buy track
18.	Tourist Barong Gamelan 11:41	buy track
19.	Midnight Plumage 03:00	buy track

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The island of Bali is Indonesia's most popular place. With the modern beach resorts at Kuta and Legian, the lovely, tropic interior of palm-covered hills and rice paddies, and a rich variety of art, dance and music, it is a destination of choice for travelers around the world. But, regardless of their increasing role of servicing an ever-demanding tourist industry, the Balinese are a strong-willed and tight-knit society. The island is a tiny enclave of Hinduism within a massive nation of Islam, yet, their Gamelan music is faster, tighter, and louder than their mighty neighbors to the west, the Javanese. Balinese Gamelan stylings and the Ketchak dance are legendary throughout the world and have been immortalized in sound recordings and on film for decades. But, beneath the creeping exterior of a pseudo-western culture slowly overtaking an amazing tradition of unique human expression, the moods of the island are governed by magic and superstition. The hills, forests, rivers, and crossroads are alive with tales of demons (Leyaks) and a flesh-eating Ogress (Rangda). A lesser-known darker side of Balinese life secretly balances the lighter side "tropical paradise" of tourist brochures. This CD is composed of field recordings from August and September of 1989. The majority of the recordings were made at night in and around the villages of Peliatan and Ubud. Amidst the excerpts from Gamelan performances, rehearsals, and Ketchak, are sounds of the surrounding forests and mysterious crossroads where packs of dogs seem to take on forms of angry demons. Also encountered here are odd folk stylings for flute and drum, outdoor village theatre, and other various sound anomalies from the Balinese interior.

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released March 4, 2010

This album is composed of field recordings from August and September of 1989. The majority of the recordings were made at night in and around the villages of Peliatan and Ubud. Amidst the excerpts from Gamelan performances, rehearsals, and Ketchak, are sounds of the surrounding forests and mysterious crossroads. Also encountered here are odd folk stylings for flute and drum, outdoor village theatre, and other various sound anomalies from the Balinese interior.

Audio recorded in August/September 1989. Edited, assembled and sequenced in July 2003. Final editing/mastering at Gravelvoice Studio in Seattle in August 2003.

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SUBLIME FREQUENCIES is a collective of explorers dedicated to exposing obscure sights and sounds from modern and traditional urban and rural frontiers via film and video, field recordings, radio and short wave transmissions, international folk and pop music, sound anomalies, other forms of human and natural natural expression not documented sufficiently enough by various communication channels. ... more

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