Songs Before Dawn: Gandrung Banyuwangi

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Album Info

Release Date: 1991

Label: Smithsonian Folkways

Recorded outdoors in Desa Kemiren, Banyuwangi, on 15 October 1990, using a Sony TCD-D10 Pro DAT recorder, a Sonosax SX-PR mixer (six in, two out), four Sennheiser MKH-40 cardioid condenser microphones, and two Electro-Voice RE18 cardioid dynamic microphones.

Mastered at Airshow

Research and publication sponsored jointly by the Office of Folklife Programs of the Smithsonian Institution and the Masyarakat Musikologi Indonesia, and funded by a grant from the Ford Foundation.

With thanks to: all the performers, especially Gandrung Temu and Bp. Basuki; to the Office of Folklife Programs of the Smithsonian Institution, the Southeast Asia Regional Office of the Ford Foundation, and the Masyarakat Musikologi Indonesia for their institutional, administrative, logistical, and clerical support, and to Anthony Seeger and Richard Kennedy (OFP), Alan Feinstein (Ford), and Sri Hastanto (MMI), for personal guidance and assistance; to Paul Blakemore for designing the equipment package, and for technical instruction and advice; to Paul Wolbers for suggestions during the recording and answers to many questions afterwards; and to Alan Feinstein (again), Jennifer Lindsay, and Tinuk Yampolsky, for ensuring the physical and psychic survival of the principal investigator.