Trance Bali 2006 ~ Field Recordings By Dave Sez

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TRANCE BALI 2006

An unreleased stereo field recording of sacred and funereal music from Bali, 2006.
A guest post dedicated to edo, holywarbles, luckypsychichut, braingoreng and madrotter.

SACRED SLONDING

Slonding 1 15.48 and Slonding 2 05.30 : five ancient and hallowed iron-bar metallophones
[1 bass, 2 baritone, 2 tenor] whose removal from their temple home for this rare performance in Ubud required a special ceremony. Performers: unidentified

By the most amazing of coincidences [well, this is Bali ...], you can also hear the same instruments playing the same two melodies, but recorded nearly fifty years ago in 1962-63, here thanks to holywarbles and again recorded in 1988 accompanied by female vocals, thanks to braingoreng. These are the only three known recordings of the Tenganan gamelan selunding/slonding.

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CREMATION AT DADIA

Prayers 04.06 : inside the deceased's home temple, the pedanda (high priest) chants prayers over the body, accompanied by three bamboo xylophones and a three iron-bar metallophone. Performers: unidentified.

Waiting to leave 07.31 : outside the deceased's home, the body is placed into the bull, accompanied by a full orchestra of hanging brass gongs, brass-bar and nipple gong metallophones, cremation cymbals and a drum. Performers: Gong Taruna Mekar Tunjuk

Tossing the bull Part 1 18.55 and Part 2 10.48 : an orchestra of a drum, several cremation cymbals, a cymbal-box, half a dozen hand-held nipple gongs and one hanging gong rush alongside the mourners carrying the bull to the cremation field, tossing it violently to confuse the spirit and prevent it from returning to haunt its former home. Performers: Angklung Sinar Jaya.

BONUS

Slonding meditation remaster – listen loud! Total: 11.29: Slonding 1 06.04 Slonding 2 05.25.

Recorded with a bamboo-boom stereo mic in December 2006 and later remixed by David Sez with thanks to the families and musicians who shared their days with us. Om Swasyastu, Suksma.

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