Street Music Of Java

Artists

Album Info

Release Date: 1989

Label: Original Music

[Durations not listed, taken from CD.]
[CD contains two more tracks than LP release.]

Recorded in 1976 and 1978 in and around Yogyakarta, Java, Indonesia.

Printed in Canada.

©® Kiwi/Pacific Records 1989.
A Kiwi/Pacific Recording.
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Personnel:

1. Two women singers, guitar, cello and drum.
2. Male singer/fiddler with guitar, ukulele and cello.
3. Same group as track 1.
4. Woman singer with two guitars.
5. Male singer/ fiddler with guitar, ukulele and cello.
6. Young man accompanying himself on guitar.
7. Two women singers, guitar, cello and percussion. The lead singer is also lead guitarist.
8. Male singer/fiddler with guitar, ukulele and cello.
9. Woman singer with ukulele and guitar.
10. Young man with small hand-drum.
11. Woman vocalist accompanying herself on the guitar, with occasional interpellations from the baby on her back.
12. Girl with home-made soapbox zither.
13. Quartet with two saron metal xylophones, two gongs, and a drum, plus two women dancers.
14. Similar instrumentation to above, but a different group.
15. [No instruments listed.]
16. Three female vocalists backed by a siter, drum and gong bumbung, a bamboo wind horn designed to imitate a traditional gong (and to signal a change of lead singer).