Semara Ratih Kuda Mandara Giri 2002

Gamelan Semara Ratih from Ubud, Gianyar, Bali plays in Bali's annual arts festival in 2002. This was the celebration performance for the group's first-place win of the gong kebyar festival.
They play the instrumental composition, Kuda Mandara Giri, by I Nyoman Windha.
The piece uses angklung kocok tuned to the gong kebyar.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• gamelan
• bali
• semara
• ratih
• festival
• gong
• kebyar

[ksuling]

They are called angklung kocok (shaken angklung) or just angklung. This is a special case of their use, to have so many and to have them tuned to the gamelan gong kebyar. The novelty of this use is why people cheered when they first saw them.

[danaitem]

Great performace, unfortunately.....they all old people and some of the member aren't originaly from the group.

[ksuling]

Why do you care about their age? Most of them are in their 30's. Is that really old?

You said "some of the member aren't originally from the group," but actually most festival gong kebyar groups don't even exist beyond the festival season. Semara Ratih has been performing continuously, every week, for almost twenty years. They added some players for the festival; you need a bigger group for the festival. That's normal. Still, 90 percent of them are original members.

[danaitem]

Thanks Ksuling, I hope that you're right. I didn't know about that....

But, my big question : why you guys did that? why you have to find a good player all over gianyar to be involve just only for that festival?

don't you already have a very good and talented musicians in your group?

[ksuling]

I believe it's completely normal in Bali for sanggar (private-non-banjar) groups expand and contract as needed. So, when a bigger event happens, some additional people play. The group probably couldn't support such a big group all the time. They have practical constraints.

[biru453]

Awesome!

[captainputs]

its called anklung

[pu263092]

gaya tukang GONG

lol

[chandanatha]

Hey I know two person who play Ugal belakang and kantilan. that's Wahyu and Degus.

are they currently in Bali?

are they join Semara Ratih?

can u say hello to both of them?

[repulsie]

I am starting to try to learn more about this amazing form of music. Could you tell me the name of those bamboo looking percussive instruments they play with the red, white and black poms on the top?