dna-productions · 2019 · 60 tracks · 4 volumes

Li One Ly

Lost in GAMELANd

From the sacred resonance of bronze temple gongs to the raw collision of industrial steel — a complete sonic transformation across four albums, sixty tracks, and an entire world of Indonesian mythology. Never before attempted. Never before heard.

Ambient Gamelan → Electronic → Industrial Gamelan Balinese Mythology World First 60 Tracks
The Transformation
Part I
Ambient · Sacred
Part II
Electronic · Awakening
Part III
Hybrid · Collision
Part IV
Industrial · Machine
Lost in GAMELANd Part 1 — Li One Ly, ambient Balinese gamelan 2019 Part One · 2019
Volume I · Ambient · Meditative

The Sacred Beginning

Where gamelan was born — in temple smoke and the long resonance of bronze. Pure, meditative, ancient. Spirits arrive gently: Barong and Rangda circle one another, the great serpent Antaboga stirs in the deep still, and Galungan calls the ancestors home.

2019 · 15 Tracks

  1. Ratna Manggali
  2. Kuningan
  3. Takshaka
  4. Setesuyara
  5. Barong
  6. Batara Kala
  7. Leyak
  8. The Awan
  9. Calon Arang
  10. Antaboga
  11. Galungan
  12. Tjak
  13. Rangda
  14. Bedwang
  15. Semara
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Lost in GAMELANd Part 2 — Li One Ly, electronic gamelan 2019 Part Two · 2019
Volume II · Electronic · Awakening

Spirits Stir

Electronic pulses begin threading through the bronze. Javanese folklore spirits awaken: the ocean queen Nyai Roro Kidul rises from the deep, the divine clown Semar moves between worlds, and the great deity Hyang breathes through frequencies new and old.

2019 · 15 Tracks

  1. Ebu Gogo
  2. Babi Ngepet
  3. Nyai Roro Kidul
  4. Warak Ngendog
  5. Wewe Gombel
  6. Ratu Adil
  7. Petruk
  8. Semar
  9. Mbok Rondo
  10. Batara Sambu
  11. Hyang
  12. Dewi Sekartaji
  13. Roro Jonggrang
  14. Shridevi
  15. Dewi Ratih
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Lost in GAMELANd Part 3 — Li One Ly, hybrid electronic gamelan 2019 Part Three · 2019
Volume III · Hybrid · Collision

Bronze Meets Steel

Nusantara — the great archipelago — becomes a sonic battlefield. Legends of Java, Sunda, and Bali charge through amplified bronze: the warrior Ksatria, the sacred golden snail Keong Emas, the lawgiver Aji Saka. Ancient heroism reforged in electricity.

2019 · 15 Tracks

  1. Nusantara
  2. Kleting Kuning
  3. Ratu Adil
  4. Durga
  5. Watu Gunung
  6. Keong Emas
  7. Sundel Bolong
  8. Banyuwangi
  9. Putri Tangguk
  10. Timun Mas
  11. Ksatria
  12. Aji Saka
  13. Roro Jonggrang
  14. Medang Kamulan
  15. Satrio Piningit
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Lost in GAMELANd Part 4 — Li One Ly, industrial gamelan 2019 Part Four · 2019
Volume IV · Industrial · Machine

The Industrial Realm

The final transformation. Bronze has become iron. Legends of West Java — Sangkuriang's rage, Malin Kundang turned to stone, Damarwulan's battle — reborn as raw industrial power. Gamelan has never sounded like this. It has never been this.

2019 · 15 Tracks

  1. Damarwulan
  2. Minangkabau
  3. Sang Kancil
  4. Ciung Wanara
  5. Sangkuriang
  6. Mundinglaya Dikusumah
  7. Dayang Sumbi
  8. Si Leungli
  9. Malin Kundang
  10. Sidapaksa
  11. Twalen
  12. Batari Sunan Ambu
  13. Si Pitoeng
  14. Panji
  15. Lutung Kasarung
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"From the first trembling of sacred bronze to the final crash of industrial steel — sixty tracks, four albums, one unbroken journey through the myths, spirits, and soundworlds of the Indonesian archipelago. Lost in GAMELANd is a world first — gamelan fully transformed, ancient and machine made one."

Li One Ly · dna-productions · 2019