Balinese gamelan : footage + music of I Wayan Lotring from 1972

I made this tribute to Lotring on the 30th of August, 2010. [PdR] The video contains segments of wonderful and unique footage - from a 20-minute documentary published on http://www.youtube.com/user/jackusful by Jacques (..), whom I contacted - of legendary Balinese musician I Wayan Lotring (1898-1983) dancing and playing in 1972. I rearranged the footage a bit and combined it with a segment of Lotring's composition 'Liar Samas', played by himself and his orchestra in 1972. You can find the complete recording on a marvellous 2cd-album, released by Ocora, titled 'Hommage a Wayan Lotring', an album I highly recommend, a very worthwhile buy if you like gamelan music from Bali.
In the 1920's and 1930's Lotring was an absolute sensation on Bali, revolutionising musical form of gamelan pieces on kebyar, pelegongan and gender wayang, and in so doing paving the way for others on Bali to take gamelan into new directions.
I would expect Canadian composer Colin McPhee to have filmed him in the 1930's but haven't seen that footage (only a few photographs of Lotring by McPhee). In his book 'A House in Bali' McPhee meets Lotring and even devotes a chapter to him. A nice read that brings you in the midst of musical history on Bali.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Indonesia
• Bali
• Balinese gamelan
• gamelan
• pelegongan
• Lotring
• I Wayan Lotring
• Liar Samas
• 1972
• dance

[fastmallets21]

i love kak lotering music, sometimes i visit his family and play his gender!!!so beautiful gender, kak lotering was a very good gender player too...

[PieterdeRooijHolland]

@fastmallets21 : wow, playing on his gender, how wonderful ! He was a great composer and musician, I love his music. Kind regards and Best Wishes to you and to Lotring's family :)

[fastmallets21]

@PieterdeRooijHolland do u play gamelan?have you watch all this video?is so beautiful!!!i have it at home in bali.thanks for upload it, i have repeated many times already....liar samas is so beautiful

[PieterdeRooijHolland]

@fastmallets21 : I played Javanese and Balinese gamelan for many, many years in the past, but no longer after 2003 I think. I also listened a lot and I have many recordings. I watched the 20-minute footage published by Jacques... unique material and yes, Liar Samas is a marvellous piece... probably my favourite Lotring-piece :)

[zwang77]

Om Swastyastu. Ngigelan saking dija Kakiang becik pisan. Matur suksma.

[3parsifal]

Heel erg bedankt dat je deze film met ons wilt delen. Ik heb deze muziek leren kennen in de 70er jaren en het was mijn "poort" tot Bali en haar cultuur. Helaas heb ik Lotring nooit ontmoet, hoewel hij toen nog wel leefde. Het orkest heb ik voor het eerst live meegemaakt in 1978. Het was en blijft een bijzondere gebeurtenis.

[SweetFire96]

Lovely to have taken watch and listen to this upload! "Reaches DNA immediately" hehe.

Dank u wel.

Terih makasi

Groeten vanuit Nijmegen.

[makanmata]

@glitterballz Indeed, the Hommage a Wayan Lotring CD set must be one of the very best gamelan recordings ever. Quite fantastic. It was not easy to find, but it is a great prize.

[glitterballz]

great!

i was looking for Colin McPhee's take on Gambangan, and your video was a direct result of that search! No McPhee but this is fine :)

(I have Lotring's Hommage CD - fantastic also)