Music
of the Gamelan Gong Kebyar, vol. 1
Musicians
of STSI -- Bali's National Institute of the ArtsAudio
Music
from Inner/Outer Space?,
This could well be the
most exotic music on the planet. Many years ago I worked on a production of
August Strindberg's A DREAM PLAY. There was a scene that included Balinese
music & dance (not in Strindberg's script, but very appropriate,
considering that the Swedish playwright was one of the first early 20th century
cultural fusionists in the arts.) I often recalled that music over the aeons.
It is seductive, enticing, other worldy.
And it's not going to be everybody's cup of musical tea.
In fact, it's not the type of music I'd listen to as a steady thing; but as an
addition to my cross cultural CD library--and to pacify that occaisional
craving in my head for a taste of the musically sublime--it works for me. The
sounds form a marvelous ambient background for focused attention or relaxation.
After doing a little research based on the booklet that is included in the CD,
I learned that there are several main styles of Balinese music--and that this
CD represented the best of one.
For me, sitar music is music of the mind--this is music you might hear on the
Mothership.
Inferno
/ From an Occult Diary
August
Strindberg: Five Major Plays
The
Road to Damascus: A Trilogy
Ghost
Sonata and When We Dead Awaken (Crofts Classics)
Transnational
Settings of Modernism & August Strindberg's Literary Locations
Gayatri
Mantra: Hymn to the Spirit Within the Fire
Celestial
Music for Sitar
The
Essential Ravi Shankar
Rise
Bhagavad
Gita
Review: JEFarrow
Updated 2/10
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