Gamelans de Bali - Recorded by Louis Berthe & Bernard Yzerdraat

Gamelan de Bali - Musique des Dieux, musique des hommes

Collection du Musée de l'Homme - Recorded 1961-63
by Louis Berthe & Bernard Yzerdraat
Éditions de la Boîte à Musique - BAM LD 096 - P.1965




Side A

A1 Danse rituelle de cour d'amour
A2 Ouverture Rituelle
A3 Air de Procession
A4 Air de Danse
A5 Air
A6 Musique funéraire pour le lavement du corps

Side B


B1 Danse de l'éventail
B2 Air sur le 3 mode #1
B3 Air sur le 3 mode #2
B4 Ouverture et danse
B5 Théatre chanté


Some more rarely spotted old vinyl of gamelan. Here is a recording I have enjoyed very much. I hope you will also. It comes with a very informative eight page folder in french, penned by Louis Berthe who together with Bernard Yzerdraat also did the recordings in 1961-63. I will continue to post gamelan music to put me and you in the mood for all the South East Asian Bärenreiters that are coming so stay tuned, and don't forget to check in here now an then.




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Cambodia - A Musical Anthology of the Orient 2

A Musical Anthology of the Orient - Unesco Collection 2

The Music of Cambodia: Ceremonial, Folk and Court Music

Bärenreiter - Musicaphon - BM 30 L 2002 - P.1961

(Click here to go to to the disocgraphy listing of all the publications in this series)

Side A

A01 Invitation to the Genies

A02 Solo for Cha-pai

A03 Prelude (Karnai)

A04 Counting the flowers (Rop Koh)

A05 Music for banquets and in honour of distinguished personalities (Sam suon savan)

A06 To drive away Demons (Wan bain priyai)

A07 Distribution of Gifts at Marriage Festivities

A08 Funeral Music

Side B

B09 March of the Songs

B10 The King of Angkor (Prah Thao)

B11 Prayer in Pali

B12 Wedding Music

B13 Mystery a cappella track.

The following pictures of old instruments from the Phnom Penh Museum

in the 1960's, makes one wonder how they have fared over the years,

since the people there have met so hard times.

Skor Tom (Rumonea)

Tro Khmers

Cha pei

Shaing shra lei

Tro U

Tro I

The last track is not listed nor mentioned either in the liner notes to accompany the LP nor is it mentioned in the reviews. It is doubly sad becuse the anonymous singer has such good voiceculture that it would be interesting to read more about the tradition it was a manifestation of. If anyone has more information to shed some light on this track I would be most delighted. Maybe it was added on the second pressing but no mention is made to that effect.

12th century carved stone relief of musicians

from the ruins of the ancient capital of Angkor

If someone can point me to other releases of early recordings of Cambodian music, i.e. more specifically from the pre CD era I would be overjoyed! It seems that there were very few made!

I will soon post one more from a french label, with some recordings that I also find rather interesting, made by Jaques Brunet and published in 1971.

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