Susheela Raman: Ghost Gamelan - COMPACT DISCS

Susheela Raman: Ghost Gamelan - COMPACT DISCSTitle: Ghost Gamelan Artist: Susheela Raman Label: Naive Product Type: COMPACT DISCS UPC: 3298496287112 Genre: Jazz Release Date: 2018 06 29 Number of Discs: 1 Susheela Raman's voice, whether solo or in unearthly harmonies, performs it's unique magic drawing the musical world together. With it's bold meddling with tune and tempo, this fresh set of songs threatens not to work but achieves a compelling integrity. Susheela Raman's 'Ghost Gamelan' is a

Title: Ghost Gamelan
Artist: Susheela Raman
Label: Naive
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 3298496287112
Genre: Jazz
Release Date: 2018-06-29
Number of Discs: 1

Susheela Raman's voice, whether solo or in unearthly harmonies, performs it's unique magic drawing the musical world together. With it's bold meddling with tune and tempo, this fresh set of songs threatens not to work but achieves a compelling integrity. Susheela Raman's 'Ghost Gamelan' is a rich new landscape unlike any of her previous work and quite unlike anything else. Born in London to South Indian parents, singer Susheela Raman, alongside producer/guitarist Sam Mills, has released a chain of adventurous albums and is known as an intense, captivating live performer. Spirited encounters with musicians from a wide range of backgrounds has been a hallmark of her work. Now a new ambitious collaboration with Indonesian musicians is bearing fruit. Raman has delivered this extraordinary album, the body of which was recorded in Solo, Indonesia in 2016. The album is a collaboration with Javanese contemporary gamelan composer Gondrong Guanarto and his team of virtuoso gamelan players. Gamelan, for non-initiates, is the music of Bali and Java, played mostly on tuned gongs, which has long inspired smart western music makers from Debussy, Messaien, Philip Glass and Steve Reich to Sonic Youth. Traces of it's shimmering, loopy DNA are over everything from modal jazz to electronic dance music.

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