The style of 1977's
Javanese Court Gamelan Volume II is subdued and calm. The album contains two very short tracks and two very long ones—3 of the 4 have vocals. The singing strikes me as an obvious influence on Sun City Girls' microtonal vocal excursions—it shifts and slides through a set of notes that seems like a scale, but it's clearly an unfamiliar one to Western ears. The tempos are consistently slow, and the pieces give a sense of structure and composition. The recording captures a nice balance, and I wish the photos on the back cover were larger.
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