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INDONESIA EDITION - #1 thread
Post anything and everything about Indonesian traditional or regional music here. What are your favourite instruments? Favourite recordings? Do you think Indonesian music is shit?
You can post about any trad music here, you don't have to limit it to Indonesia, but that would be the general theme of this thread.
>RECOMMENDS
VA - Street Musicians of Yogyakarta
The Pura Paku Alaman, K.R.T. Wasitodipuro - Java: Court Gamelan Volume. I
Master Musicians of Java - The Jasmine Isle: Javanese Gamelan Music
VA - Gender Wayang Of Sukawati Village
Gendèr Wayang - Bali: Music For The Shadow Play
>LEARNS
Finding musics: http://www.folkways.si.edu/
Books: https://mega.nz/#F!Zhx3RK4S!uTO7cvw0dVnA-79mbcqIsA
Various useful links: http://www.ethnomusicology.org/?Resources_Links
>HEARS
Hampus' uploads: https://mega.nz/#F!095RxbjT!L70EOLIUfZjS_f3D7YKfsg
Alan Lomax's recordings: http://research.culturalequity.org/home-audio.jsp
Finding musics: http://www.folkways.si.edu/
SLSK Room: /trad/
Folkways label has a wonderful 20 CD series on Indonesian music that covers many styles of music found in Indonesia, highly recommended.
Here's a collage of gamel music on what.cd
https://what.cd/collages.php?id=8442
Apparently there are quite a few albums of Indonesian music on Ocora label, which although I can't vouch for them personally, should be excellent.
Also I found picture related, which ought to be pretty good because I'd really like to hear more music that is not gamelan.
Snatching some odd 14 albums from what.cd that I haven't heard, and I might give a listen to this weekend if I have any spare time. Might be too busy, though.
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>>60353529
I listened to this the other day and really enjoyed it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abQY9W7fCl8
gamelan gong gede, balinese court music
>>60353443
Is there some kind of chart for traditional music? I'm interested in listening to more traditional music but I'm not entirely sure where to start.
Alan Bishop of Sun City Girls has a label called Sublime Frequencies that put out a good amount of rare Indonesian music
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kS9hQf4bHNg
>>60354532
No chart really, since traditional music is bit too broad to make a comprehensive one for. But the mega link in the op has a bunch of albums that could be a good start.
>>60354587
Thanks a bunch. I'm particularly interested in a kind of traditional celtic/medieval folk sound similar to what sufjan stevens did on certain songs on his first album except more traditional. Any suggestions?
thank goodness you're back hampus
I was missing the good old /trad/ thread
I have no experience with Indonesian music so I'll go do some research/listening and report back later
>>60354660
Never listened to.sufjan, but Mary o'hara - songs of ireland is a great album of traditional irish songs
Did you know that Indonesia is the biggest Muslim country in the world and the people are all dogs?
>>60357139
But what music do you like.
fuck you hampus
>>60354660
listen to shirley collins
>>60354901
Been banned.
>>60357438
Thanks.
>>60354532
No chart. No point in a chart. Charts are nothing but homogenizing.
>>60354466
I don't know; what is batak music?
>>60358389
>>60354466
Info on batak was found on OxMu
>These seven North Sumatran groups (Toba, Karo, Simalungun, Pakpak (Dairi), Angkola, and Mandailing) have related but distinct languages, customs and traditional arts. The Batak groups are divided by religion (the Mandailing are Islamic, the Toba Christian) and to some extent by language (Toba and Karo in particular are mutually unintelligible), though they share a principle of social organization based on exogamous patrilineal clans.
Music plays an important role in life-cycle ceremonies; indeed, the word for ‘ceremony’ (gondang in Toba, gendang in Karo) is also a central musical term, meaning drum, ensemble, and musical composition. The central ceremonial activity is a series of dances (Toba tortor; Karo landek) by several groups of dancers, each usually representing a clan with a definite relationship to the host or some other kind of corporate group (e.g. church, youth-group). Musicians are necessary to accompany the dancing, but they are also considered to be intermediaries between the celebrants and the Creator. The dancing is often preceded by a sort of musical prayer, the ritual sounding of a medley of several compositions (or fragments thereof) played without pause (e.g. the Toba si pitu gondang or the Simalungun gonrang parahot).
There's then a whole massive sektion on toba batak which I guess that album is, as well as karo batak.
The OxMu article on Indonesia is absolutely massive. Just the general section is several thousand words. I wish I had the time to read it, but I need to study learning all weekend, while at the same time I'm on an educational trip with a sex education group.
>>60358389
really? what for?
>>60358732
Existing.
Some mod hates me
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Java or bali gamelan?
>>60360012
Javanese
>>60360058
I mostly agree. I really enjoy the more meditative, almost ghostly, quality of javanese, but i also really have to be in the mood for it.
