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Musik Baru

Yayasan Polosseni CD's

The Yayasan Polosseni presents a series of CD's.
Profit from the CD's is used by the Yayasan to continue the research and training of perfomers at the Yayasan Polosseni in such projects as the Legong Kraton Project which is committed to the preservation and promotion of the Teges, Peliatan Style of Legong Kraton. The Yayasan's flagship group, Sekehe Dharma Purwe Jati has been working with the legong teachers Ibu Sang Ayu Ketut Muklen and Ni Putu Sutarini in the revival of the missing segments of Legong Kraton. The group is currently working on Legong Kraton Pelayon.


Producer: Douglas Myers
Recording Engineer: Rodney Jacobson
Recording Technician: Dave Stewart
Grevillea Mastering, Brisbane, Australia
Yayasan Polosseni P.O.Box 56, Ubud, Bali, Indonesia Tel: 62 361 975 869
Email: polos@goarchi.com Web site: http://www.goarchi.com.yp


CD Reviews

Sunda Bali

I found listening to this music to be a very soothing experience. A light energetic quality runs throughout the whole album, which is deepened by very moody and smoothly elongated infusions and interludes from wind and string instruments which I found a little strange and humorous at times.This is Balinese gamelan and Sundanese music idiom being fused together in a "cross-cultural" relationship that is both harmonious and dynamic. Popular and classical music is allowed to keep living and growing in what is a common example of the creative process at work in Indonesia. Chances are you will like this album. Sunda Bali by Sambasunda Reviewed by Tom Mullins, Byron Bay, NSW.

Archipelagongs

This album takes echoes from Indonesia's ancient past and infuses them with ultra-funky bass, serenely delicate expression of voice, which extends and rises at times to an outpouring of epic proportions, and modernistic dreamy interludes like that of the electric sitar. Many traditional instruments and an uplifting chorus of backing vocals are also prominant. An enormously diverse range of sounds reflecting and honouring, in a spirit of gratidute and celebration, the diversity of Indonesia's archipelago.The lyrics at times merge between Indonesian and English, which seems to open your senses to the sounds and rythms of the language itself as opposed to it's merely intellectual meaning, so the emotional quality of the music is intensified. This is also explored in "Dongeng Batu" through the soundscapes of rain, running water, thunder and elements of the environment that also reflect something much deeper than words. Having described the music so far as both ancient and modernistic, I must also say it has that dimention of timelessness, which I really love in music and also film, it somehow frees your imagination. Perhaps hearing a language I can't understand supports this sensation. This Album for me was great because it seemed to subtly express essenses of Indonesian music and culture in a new, unique and also personal way.Archipelagongs by Ubiet
Reviewed by Tom Mullins, Byron Bay

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