TROMPONG BEBONANGANS: In Five South Indian Rhythms

by Tom Ross

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1.	BEBONANGAN CHATUSRA 02:20		download
2.	BEBONANGAN TISRA 02:42		download
3.	BEBONANGAN MISRA 02:08		download
4.	BEBONANGAN KHANDA 03:08		download
5.	BEBONANGAN SANKIRNA 02:05		download
6.	BEBONANGAN: Balinese-style walking music 05:14	info	download

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Bebonangans are walking gamelans that accompany events such as funeral processions in Bali. Each man carries a single note of the fabric, with a striker. The large gongs are carried on their stands. I watched many men of the village groaning under a bamboo lattice that bore a noble corpse on a tall tower topped by a paper bull. They take the body to the sea and incinerate the tower, with celestial music.

As the procession receded (recorded on a tape since lost!), another tower approached with its own gamelan, tuning, and groove.

Here the same band plays the customary South Indian jatis of 4, 3, 7, 5, and 9. I detuned copies of the trompong and played unisons, which makes the notes shimmer. Other metallophones play interlocking kotekan patterns, with colotomic markers indebted to American drumming.

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released January 21, 2014

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