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Songlines' Gamelan Alligator Joy Releases Penumbra, Its First Album In Fifteen Years

Songlines' Gamelan Alligator Joy Releases Penumbra, Its First Album In Fifteen Years

Source: GoMedia PR

It's been 15 years since Vancouver’s new music / Javanese gamelan group released its last record, Hive. In the meantime, the ensemble took a new name. Traditionally, gamelans are named after the poetic honorific title bestowed on the large gong: Madu Sari translates as “the essence of honey.” But times change, and Alligator Joy was named after the rumored-to-be-gun-running freighter that brought this newly created, chamber-sized gamelan gadhon to Vancouver in 1990. The pieces on Penumbra were workshopped and premiered ...

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Penumbra

Songlines Recordings
2025

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