But Pierre Moerlen really blossomed during Gong’s second main incarnation when he ditched the vocals, added more percussion, and gave prog its first real exposure to the Indonesian gamelan.

As evident from the ‘Nglayang’ song snippet, the music in this album is rich in influences, beyond Balinese gamelan and jazz. This is partly due to Firetail itself having members hailing from ...

Sound practitioner Martha Collard was at a gong workshop in the US state of Pennsylvania a year ago when a woman whose daughter lives in Hong Kong asked her: “Do you know this studio there with ...

The gamelan study group at Wesleyan has been in existence since the late 1960s. The class focuses on direct, hand-on experience of performing Central Javanese gamelan, augmented by occasional ...