Gig Alert: Electric Junkyard Gamelan
Friday, April 22, 2011
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Electric Junkyard Gamelan (Courtesy of the band)
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Electric Junkyard Gamelan
“Space Kitty”
Playing Saturday at Barbes (376 9th St., Park Slope)
Get: Tickets ($10 suggested donation at the door) | Directions
Let by the multi-faceted multi-instrumentalist Terry Dame, the Electric Junkyard Gamelan is a quartet that makes hard-grooving space age jams on homemade instruments crafted out of, well, junk. That junk includes the Clayrimba, a set of tuned clay pots, and the electric Kachapitar, a zither made of old piano wire and a wooden futon frame. The whole endeavor is a modern day dumpster diver’s spin on the gamelan, the traditional Indonesian orchestra of metal xylophones and gongs. Dame’s sound is somewhere between the off-kilter traditional trance of Bali and the latest dubby dance tracks. Despite being played on exclusively acoustic instruments, “Space Kitty” wouldn’t sound out of place in any clubland jungle music playlist.
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