Musica Coniuncta 2 – Young Bali Gamelan

This album follows a previous one – ‘Musica Coniuncta – Bach to Cage through Gamelan’ – published by Yantra in 2014. It follows the same concept and actualization. While the first one mainly targeted Western classical pieces and had them in turn joined-up with gamelan and other world musics, the present album focuses on very recent creations by young Balinese musicians and has their original gamelan pieces invaded and ‘contaminated’ by Western and diverse musical expressions. In the concise notes attached to the first album, we read that the idea about ‘musica coniuncta’ originated a few decades ago, suggested by a serendipitous happening.

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