- Artist
- Various Artists
- ReleaseProduct
- Exploring Gong Culture In Southeast Asia:Mainland and Archipelago Intro by David Toop
- Label
- Sub Rosa
- Catalogue Number
- SR509
- Release Date
- May 24, 2022
Press Release
Gongs have played an integral role in the mythogeography of Asia. This is not music that aligns with national borders or ideas of homogenous populations, let alone racial stereotypes and exotic clichés. What connects all of these tracks is a simultaneous feeling of entrancement and social cohesion. Communal and collaborative, its form is hypnotically repetitious, melodies and rhythms spread out among the players using the technique of hocketing in which a flowing line is distributed among all the musicians. The effect is mesmerising, immediately intoxicating to anybody who loves Chicago footwork, free improvisation, Sun Ra or young hip hop producer Jetsonmade. The music is simple yet mysterious and enveloping, a sound world in which to disappear. A theory exists but this is not explained. David Toop (extracts from the liner notes) This project, Massif and Archipelago, is a field recording project initiated by Japanese sound artist Yasuhiro Morinaga, documenting traditional gong music by different Southeast Asian ethnic groups. The project aimed to examine the impact of the natural and social environment on the gong music culture of Southeast Asia. During the project, he visited over 50 different ethnic groups and made hundreds of recordings. This album presents a selection of the unique gong music from different ethnic minorities. The selected music has been divided into two broad sections: one focussing on the music from the Massif, i.e. mainland Southeast Asia (Central Highland of Vietnam and Northeast Cambodia), the other on music from the Archipelago, maritime Southeast Asia (the Luzon Islands of the Philippines, Borneo, Sulawesi, and the Flores Islands of Indonesia).
- 1 Hail EDE 2:38
- 2 Celebrating the Festival Cham Hroi 4:10
- 3 Funeral Music Krung + Punong 5:24
- 4 Buffalo Sacrifice I Jarai 2:50
- 5 Kids Routine after School Krung 5:59
- 6 Duet Gongs Coho 4:27
- 7 Funeral Music part 1 Churu 3:24
- 8 Ghet Khil EDE 1:24
- 9 Offering to the Spirits Punong 3:25
- 10 Sre don Ma 2:37
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- Bernard Parmegiani
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- Lac Noir/La Serpente 1992
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- Sub Rosa
- Catalogue Number
- SRV464
- Release Date
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- Sub Rosa
- Catalogue Number
- SR530
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- Sub Rosa
- Catalogue Number
- SRV510
- Release Date
- June 17, 2022
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- Conductor
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- Sub Rosa
- Catalogue Number
- SRV498
- Release Date
- April 12, 2022
- LP
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- Sote
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- Majestic Noise Made in Beautiful Rotten Iran
- Label
- Sub Rosa
- Catalogue Number
- SR535
- Release Date
- April 8, 2022
- CD
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- Pauline Oliveros, György Ligeti
- ReleaseProduct
- Musica Nuvolosa Performed by ENSEMBLE 0
- Label
- Sub Rosa
- Catalogue Number
- SR528
- Release Date
- April 6, 2022
- CD
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- Reinhold Weber
- ReleaseProduct
- Complete Electronic & Phonetic Works 1968-1974
- Label
- Sub Rosa
- Catalogue Number
- SRV492
- Release Date
- March 18, 2022
- LP
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- Artist
- Mick Harris / Martyn Bates
- ReleaseProduct
- Murder Ballads
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- Sub Rosa
- Catalogue Number
- SRV506
- Release Date
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- LP