Friday, August 11, 2006

Ketjak: The Ramayana Monkey Chant

Ketjak: The Ramayana Monkey Chant, 20:11
http://www.ubu.com/ethno/soundings/ketjack.html

"Performed by more than 200 men seated in tight concentric circles around a small central space reserved for the chief protagonists," the ketjak (loosely called "Monkey Chant") was first recorded in Bali by David Lewiston and released by Nonesuch Records in 1969. As a spectacular and alternative performance mode, it has had a germinal influence on western performance and poetics since then.

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