Collaboration with No Loser

Ensemble Gending, a karawitan (Sundanese traditional music) group from the Netherlands, collaborated for a music performance with a group from Bandung, Kyai Fatahillah.

July 21, 2010

THE stage was full. A mix of 10 foreigners in red shirts with 15 Indonesians dressed in black. All sat cross-legged. In their hands they held mallets or what in Sundanese language are called panakol. Together, they struck the metal keys and gongs of the Javanese gamelan. The composition, Kulu-kulu, opened in soft, slow and flowing tones. For five minutes, their rhythmic playing was performed for an audience of about 120 people at Komunitas Salih

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