(Archivist Note – there were originally a number of pages which linked to obscure cassettes in my collection. All these are being restored under the “Wednesday Night…” category but it will take a bit of time.)
It’s the 1970’s. It’s Indonesia – the party has started. A Javanese Chamber Music party. This is the hand dubbed cassette you buy after the performance. We did.
Hard to fathom, but COKEKAN had a CD out in Italy in 2008 – the (missing) web link also had a far more sensible description of the group. That was conducted by ethno-musicologist Suppangah Rahayu – who is not mentioned at all on my cassette. I also can’t imagine it would be with the same gamelan man, although he could be 100+ and still tinkling the tubes. My theory is the boy held by the lady at the back has probably taken over the collective in the last thirty odd years and turned it into a well oiled machine.
My personal preference is for the first and final track, I know I’m shallow but I’m a sucker for a melody. Javanese music is the shrill end of Indonesia.
This is cassette 1 in the ‘what the hell are we going to do with all these’ series.
The cassette
