| Ngaio Gamelan |  | Artist: David Parsons
Label: Celestial Harmonies
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Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 126,667
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 013711317121
EAN: 0013711317121
ASIN: B00000J8MV
Release Date: June 15, 1999
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| Tracks:
| • | Urartu to Ubud | | • | Tjampuhan | | • | Laplapan | | • | Ararat Legong | | • | Jalan Jalan | | • | Sarangi Saron |
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Album Description
Longtime fans of David Parsons' sampling and synthesizer originals of the 1980s will be pleased with the musician's return to the studio. After a long hiatus as a composer/performer, Parsons' Ngaio Gamelan is unmistakably his magnum opus. To date that is, we are optimistic Parsons has more to come.From 1992 until 1997, David Parsons traveled the world as a producer for Celestial Harmonies. After The Music of Cambodia (19902-2), The Music of Vietnam (19903-2), The Music of Armenia (19909-2), The Music of Bali (19905-2), and the award-winning The Music of Islam (19907-2) in addition to several recordings from India and Indonesia, this is the transfigured music of a reborn composer/performer - the result of an exemplary multi-cultural existence on four continents drawing from the inspiration of hundreds of fellow musicians and music traditions from around the globe, recorded in Wellington, New Zealand. Tracks one, two and four use sampled phrases from the Armenia project. Track six uses sampled sarangi phrases from a recording made in Pakistan. Tracks three and five are new compositions by Parsons, without any sampling. Most tracks use Indian percussion instruments played by Parsons. The phrase samples have dictated musical scales resulting in the gamelan accompaniment being based on scales otherwise unheard of in Indonesian music. Although Parsons did not strictly follow any musical traditions, as that was not his intention, this is rather an experiment attempting to produce a hybrid - a kind of east-west fusion.
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 Percussive Ethereality September 2, 2008
Piers Moktan (Khorsor Elephant Stable, Nepal)
This was a wonderful chance discovery for me whilst perusing the catalogue of the interesting Celestial Harmonies label. I had not previously heard of David Parsons and being labelled a New Age composer is not a description that I would ordinarily find enticing, but the gamelan in the title immediately attracted me. I soon realised what an experienced and skillful composer David Parsons is- one who really understands melody, harmony, rhythm and their emotive potentials when deployed synergetically, and not merely some faddist in love with oriental exotica.
This is a meditative and uplifting set of rhythmic ambient pieces fusing western electronic compositional practices with Indian and Indoniesian instrumentation. Besides the tuned percussion of the Javanese, Balinese and Sundanese gamelan bell stylings, the stringed drone of the lute-like tambura, and the hammered dulcimer tones of the santoor, also evident are the percussive sounds of kanjira, ghatam and mridangam from the Carnatic music tradition of South India (as far as I can tell). Cliched it may be to say so, but the effect really is entrancing, rapturous and engaging. This is perhaps as essential listening as John Mclaighlin's Shakti and Remember Shakti projects- and that should serve as ample endorsement! Absolutely brilliant.
Inspiring May 31, 2008
Dagny (Middle Village, NY)
I have other works of David Parson and he never disappoints me. As always, his work enchants me.
Absolutely fantastic September 21, 2007
Healthy Person (Sarasota, Florida)
This CD is an incredible musical experience that is unparallelled!!!!
Having visited Bali, and lived in the orient for quite some time - I find myself totally enraptured with this beautiful music.
David Parson's is a musical genius, playing all instruments on the album. I have never heard such soul inspiring uplifting music in my life. I am so pleased I was able to discover this music and his work. It really wouldn't have been possible without the samplers from Amazon.
Please take the plunge, and try listening to the samples. You'll quickly fall in love with it too. Unique and quite spectacular. Be prepared to be utterly and completely transformed.
Tjampuhan RULES! December 9, 2001
Roogs (Crone Land USA)
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
I think I have every CD that David has released; this is by far my favorite. I put the "Tjampuhan" track on "repeat" play and go
off to achieve samhadi. BUY THIS ONE!
 A nice chaser, after Three Seasons Sountrack March 19, 2001
C. Gray (Chicago, USA)
2 out of 7 found this review helpful
Seeing the movie Three Seasons was a welcomed spiritual recallibration for me. It is my favorite soundtrack, ever. Naturally I want to find more music like that which on the soundtrack, but it hasn't been an easy chore.Untill I found David Parsons' "Ngaio Gamelan". I have to admit that it will be hard for another project to win my affection from Three Seaons. However, this is a very nice compliment. It doesn't have the lush Viet vocals and instrumentation, but it sits nicely along side of it. If you like either of the above cds, don't hesitate to check out Putumayo's "Music from the Tea Lands". It is currently my favorite World Ambience compilation. Very well done. I just brought home Putumayo's "From Mali to Memphis". Growing up in the Mississippi Delta, I'm no stranger to blues, so I look forward to absorbing that mixed with Afrikan seasonings.
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