Satura Stramoine's video: David Parsons - Ngaio Gamelan full album

"After nearly five years of traveling, including 11 months on the road in one year, the Parsons family returned to New Zealand in 1997. Parsons finally returned to his own music. Consciously, he says, his approach hadn’t changed. He was still working intuitively, still picking up the sitar when he needed a burst of inspiration. But subconsciously, he suspects a profound influence. “I couldn’t believe the precision of the rhythms we heard while we were traveling,” he says. “So my approach didn’t change, but the materials and ideas did.” Drawing on the melodies and instruments he had recorded around the Eastern Hemisphere, Parsons set to work on a project that would bring the amazing experience of the world’s ancient acoustic traditions into an electronic setting. It would become the record Ngaio Gamelan" "Using samples of his hours of recordings of instruments like the Armenian duduk (an oboe made of apricot wood), the Iranian kemanche (a spike fiddle), and the sarangi (the Indian box cello), Parsons created a sound world that was enriched by his years of travel. The trademark darkness that colored his prior recordings was leavened somewhat by the brilliant chimes of the Indonesian gamelan, the metal percussion orchestras of Java and Bali. “I knew the duduk would fit with the Balinese gamelan,” he says. But the practicalities of bringing those two tunings and traditions together would have been difficult to do without electronics. After spending so much time with some of the world’s great acoustic traditions, Parsons says, “it was hard to warm up to synthesizers again. But if you use them for what they can do, not what they can’t do, it works out. The synthesizer is good at aural landscapes and sound sculpting—creating sounds you’ve never heard before.” Since Balinese gamelans are tuned to specific scales, Parsons had to play the sounds into his sampler and then 'temper' the sampled sounds to fit into the scale needed for the Ngaio Gamelan material." Buy the album here : http://www.harmonies.com/releases/13171.htm 1. Urartu To Ubud 0:00 2. Tjampuhan 7:11 3. Laplapan 18:32 4. Ararat Legong 31:11 5. Jalan Jalan 41:21 6. Sarangi Saron 52:16 Subscribe to my channel : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCM-AWvXvybgrQi6loxVI7eQ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use.