Gamelan Dimensi Kelima (Indonesia, 2014)

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1.	Gamelan Sekar Puri - Ladrang (ayum jantan dari Perth?) 02:14	info	buy track
2.	Borobudur ke Kraton ke Prambanan (Yogyakarta) 04:08	info
3.	Gamelan Pura Mangkunegaran - Slendro dan pelog (?) 04:00
4.	snakebeings + fiffdimension - Kuningan dan perunggu 02:50	info
5.	Gamelan Taniwha Jaya - Gopala (Bali) (live at NZ School of Music, 2015) 01:15	info	buy track
6.	Ubud scenes (Bali) 02:30	info
7.	Nat da Hatt + fiffdimension - Lost in the Monkey Forest 03:47
8.	snakebeings + fiffdimension - East to West: Indonesia (live at the Audio Foundation, 2014) 04:33
9.	snakebeings + fiffdimension - Sampak Membengkak 03:41
10.	Gamelan Padhang Moncar - Nusantara (live at Te Papa, 2016) 02:29	info	buy track
11.	Gamelan Padhang Moncar - Improvisasi (di musim panis Wairarapa) 01:49	info
12.	Dimensi keempat dan kelima (2023) 08:13
13.	Gamelan Taniwha Jaya - Teruna Jaya (live at Te Papa, 2016) 01:00	info	buy track

about

www.fiffdimension.com/ethnomusicology

Recorded in 2014 in Indonesia - central Java, then Bali and Nusa Penida islands;

+ gamelan ensembles, in Perth, Western Australia;
Surakarta, Indonesia;
and Wellington, NZ (www.gamelan.org.nz)
- in which I played between 2010-2018;

+ 2010s collaborations with fellow postpunk expat ethnomusicologists
* Dr Emit Snake-Beings ( snakebeings.bandcamp.com ) and
* Nat da Hatt (natdahatt.bandcamp.com );

* videos at: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtbrBpNjlOHMi_Mz-tTtkwn2ChtedbStJ

Gamelan was introduced to New Zealand in the 1970s and has an active scene in Wellington (my birthplace, where I first encountered it - via www.gamelan.org.nz ).

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See also
fiffdimension.bandcamp.com/album/other-islands-2012-2018 ;

Western Australia (where I lived at the time)
fiffdimension.bandcamp.com/album/in-a-wildflower-state-wa-2013 ;

My other Asian-made albums
fiffdimension.bandcamp.com/album/japan-2012
and fiffdimension.bandcamp.com/album/south-korea-2008 ;

and www.gamelan.org.nz

credits

released July 10, 2023

Gamelan Taniwha Jaya
- Wellington NZ, - led by Gareth Farr

Gamelan Sekar Puri
Perth, Western Australia - led by Sofari Hidayat

Gamelan Pura Mangkunegaran
- Surakarta, Indonesia

Gamelan Padhang Moncar
- Wellington NZ - led by Budi Putra

with

Dave Edwards - field recordings, bass, electric guitar, tenor saxophone, saron, jublag, jegogan

Emit Snake-Beings- field recordings, harmonium, percussion (5,9,10)

Nat da Hatt - electric guitar & beats (8)

Cylvi M - jegogan (1), saron (3), shakuhachi sample (9)

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Terima kasih banyak untuk:

Sofari Hidayat, Partini Namalengkap, Widadi Didik Sri, Made Lana, Dex's Wit, Mang Liantari, Mike Appleton, Budi Putra, Joko Susilo, Gareth Farr, Nell Thomas, Jeff Henderson, Wayan Gde Yudane

& past present & future members of www.gamelan.org.nz

Judith Exley, Marie Direen, Megan Collins, Jo Hilder, Greg Street, Mike Jones, Alisa Hogan, Gabrielle Young, Hazel Barrett, Paul Nuttall, Stephanie Cairns, Pippa Strom, Briar Prastiti, Jason Erskine, Helen O’Rourke, Carina Esguerra, Rupert Snook, Tristan Carter, Jack Hooker, Anton Killin, Ayca Arkilic, Marika Pratley

license

about

fiffdimension Featherston, New Zealand

Outsider music from Aotearoa NZ and beyond, by Dave Edwards and collaborators (from 1856 to 2024).

Spans acoustic & electric noise, rock, folk, spoken word, postpunk, free jazz, gamelan, lo fi, electronica, & ethnomusicology.

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discography

Poems & Lyrics (in the English dialect) (1856)

Jun 2024
Poems & Lyrics (in the Scotch dialect) (1856)

Jun 2024
Quietism (2024)

Mar 2024
Electric (yang) / Acoustic (yin) - 2CD compilation 1998-2023

Nov 2023
electric (yang)

Nov 2023
acoustic (yin)

Nov 2023
Live 2023

Oct 2023
Gamelan Dimensi Kelima (Indonesia, 2014)

Jul 2023
Elevate (2023)

Jul 2023
2010

Jun 2023
assembling disconsonant (2023)

May 2023
in a wildflower state (WA, 2013)

Jan 2023
águas brilhantes: 2018-2022

Dec 2022
Negentropic Diatribes (2022)

Dec 2022
A Second Sun (2022)

Oct 2022
State Highway 2 (2022)

Aug 2022
Shortest Days: 2003-2015

Jul 2022
Spastic Rhythms '22 (2022)

Feb 2022
Return of the Sun (2021)

Nov 2021
Glimpses of Utopia (2020)

Nov 2020
Ruasagavulu (Fiji, 2020)

May 2020
Live 2019

Aug 2019
Live 1999

Jun 2019
Other Islands: 2012-2018

Dec 2018
A Ton of Feathers (2018)

Nov 2018
Escape Velocity (Live 2018)

Mar 2018
The Electricka Zoo (2017)

Jul 2017
Fragmentary Alpha Waves 7" (2016)

Mar 2016
Ngumbang (2015)

Jun 2015
in the non-idiomatic idiom in Norway (2014)

Nov 2014
Frog Throat Sac Defibrillator

Apr 2014
Fame & Oblivion: 2005-2012

Dec 2013
ネオン列車の風景 (Japan, 2012)

Jul 2012
維度。第一次：東亞 (Asia, 2008)

Jul 2008
처음으로 (South Korea, 2008)

Jul 2008
South Island Sessions (2006)

Oct 2006
After Maths & Sciences (NSW, 2006)

Jan 2006
Gleefully Unknown: 1997-2005

Oct 2005
After Maths & Sciences (VIC, 2005)

Jun 2005
Evolution (2005)

Mar 2005
Articulation Incommunicate (2004)

Oct 2004
Loose Autumn Moans (2003)

Oct 2003
After the Filmshoot (2002)

Oct 2002
Mantis Shaped & Worrying (2002)

Jun 2002
The Marion Flow (Pōneke, 2001)

Jun 2001
in the non-idiomatic idiom in Norway (1999)

Dec 1999
The Marion Flow (Taranaki, 1999)

Aug 1999
Scratched Surface (1998)

Dec 1998

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