gamelan resonating in a tract home

[gurdonark]

Forrest Fang's Gongland lived up to its advance praise. It's ambient music with heavy Indonesian gamelan influence, well worth owning. We sat on our postage stamp back patio watching lightning bugs in our postcard back yard while the sun set orange through purple storm cloud skies, and the sounds of synthesizers disguised as gamelans created a mist of pleasant ambience for everything.

I need to get more music. I have that Mountain Goats' new CD I still haven't purchased, I want to get that R. Stevie Moore with "Fletcher Honorama" on it, and I want to get 10 CDs from people I never heard of from dollarcd.com. If you're going to talk the "support indies" talk,
you gotta walk the "buy their CDs" walk, otherwise, you're just one more poet submitting to a magazine which you've never purchased.

Comments

[marstokyo.livejournal.com]

Back in the late 70's I used to listen to a lovely recording with Don Cherry on gamelan-- called Eternal Now. Great record. I think I'll get it out and listen to it.

[gurdonark.livejournal.com]

I'll watch for Eternal Now. I used to have in LP the Nonesuch record Sounds of the Gamelan, or some such...very good stuff.

[muse.livejournal.com]

I love hearing music reviews from friends. Right now, I long for new music, but since I'm on the starving student Ramen noodle for life plan, I rarely get to listen to new music these days. It's good to hear about some good world music, though. I'm glad you enjoyed it.

[gurdonark.livejournal.com]

Well, I hope that someday you can get on the Top Ramen and a CD modest plan instead, and get a few CDs