Bali-Ag煤ng

by Eberhard Schoener

Bali-Ag煤ng cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: February 1976
  • Label: Harvest
  • Country: Germany
  • Length: 39:14
  • Community rating: 3.87/5 from 5 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

The innovative German composer travels to Indonesia to merge early synthesizer technology with traditional Balinese Gamelan and Kecak chants. The resulting cross-cultural experiment is a mesmerizing, polyrhythmic soundscape that preempts the worldbeat and ambient movements of later decades.

Genres

Descriptors: atmospheric, sampling, progressive, technical, polyphonic, experimental, fusion, electronic, percussive, traditional, synthesizers, ritualistic, orchestral

Tracklist

  1. Tjandra (Der Mond) (5:29)
  2. Rawana (Der D盲monenk枚nig) (2:58)
  3. Nadi (In Trance Sein) (10:28)
  4. Surija (Die Sonne) (3:39)
  5. Ramayana (Balinesisches M盲rchen) (3:11)
  6. Ketjak-Rock (2:12)
  7. Ag煤ng Raka - Dalang (Ag煤ng Raka Der Schattenspieler) (5:35)
  8. Gong-Gede (Orchester) (5:42)

Credits

  • Siegfried Schwab - classical guitar
  • Pete York - percussion

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