Robert Macht Vishnu World, World   Innova 537    CD   15
	Vishnu blends Macht's playing of the tuned bronzed gongs, xylophones and calf skinned drums from Java, known as the gamelan, with the lyric-coloratura voice of Hyunah Yu. See One Sheet
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Title	Composer(s)	Performer(s)	Length
Vishnu	Robert Macht	Robert Macht Hyunah Yu John Seligman	5:35
Ikan Kuning	Robert Macht	Robert Macht John Wubbenhorst	5:48
Kaida	Robert Macht	Robert Macht Hyunah Yu Sandip Burman	12:52
Ketawang Quoniam	Robert Macht	Robert Macht John Wubbenhorst	5:22
Larasati Arab	Robert Macht	Robert Macht Hyunah Yu Global Percussion	6:24
Yatai Gambang	Robert Macht	Robert Macht Global Percussion	4:23
Pelawak	Robert Macht	Robert Macht	2:47
Anjing Ngantuk	Robert Macht	Robert Macht Global Percussion	2:53
Bembe Pelog	Robert Macht	Robert Macht Global Percussion	3:12
Gahu Slendro	Robert Macht	Robert Macht Hyunah Yu Global Percussion Robert Jenkins Timothy Anderson Michele Humphreys	5:26
Jalan-Jalan	Robert Macht	Robert Macht Hyunah Yu Global Percussion	3:05
Vishnu blends Macht's playing of the tuned bronzed gongs, xylophones and calf skinned drums from Java, known as the gamelan, with the lyric-coloratura voice of Hyunah Yu. Sandip Burman (Indian tabla), John Wubbenhorst (bamboo flute) and the group Global Percussion add to the spicy concoction. Robert Macht was born in Baltimore in 1958.  After graduating from Bennington College, he spent a year in Indonesia studying the gamelan.  He studied composition with Henry Brant and has taught gamelan at the Peabody Conservatory of Music and Towson University. Macht has composed music for many dance companies, including a portion of  "Snow on the Mesa," for the Martha Graham Dance Company. * Vishnu * Ikan Kuning * Kaida * Ketawang Quoniam * Larasati Arab * Yatai Gambang * Pelawak * Anjing Ngantuk * Bembe Pelog * Gahu Slendro * Jalan-Jalan
Sonoloco This CD from innovative composer run label Innova in St. Paul, Minnesota, fits well into my collection of eastern classical music, that I’ve so far mostly gotten from labels like Ocora, Auvidis and Maison des Cultures du Monde. The gamelan, Javanese brand, which gets the first track going, is vibrant and beautiful as any other gamelan CD I’ve heard. The voice that comes in after a while, belonging to Hyunah Yu, lyric-coloratura soprano from South Korea, is a give-away though, to the fact that this is a highly western production. Her singing, though following somewhat eastern lines of melody, is in itself expressing the tune in a western way, with a certain vibrato that is not audible in eastern singing from the gamelan part of the world. This is no drawback, though, since this is a western production, and this combination of a western kind of voice and eastern instruments gives a special excitement to the recordings. by