Presented with Melbourne Recital Centre
Susheela Raman
Ghost Gamelan
★★★★★
— FINANCIAL TIMES
What do Erik Satie, Sonic Youth, Philip Glass
and Miles Davis share? A fascination inspired
by gamelan, the Indonesian musical tradition
of shimmering, looping resonance whose
DNA has made its way into everything from
modal jazz to electronic dance music.
British/Australian singer Susheela Raman’s
creative journey has embraced genres as
diverse as Byzantine chant, post-punk art-
pop and ecstatic Pakistani qawwali to the
South Indian music her parents gifted her.
For Ghost Gamelan Raman and longtime
co-writer and guitarist Sam Mills travelled
to Indonesia to transform their songs with
contemporary Javanese gamelan composer
Gondrong Gunarto.
Melbourne Recital Centre
Elisabeth Murdoch Hall
Sat 19 October 8pm
1 hr 15 mins no interval
Tickets $69
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It’s a haunting combination. With its
compulsive rhythms and otherworldly
harmonies, Ghost Gamelan is full of ancient
echoes but achieves something unique,
thrilling and contemporary.
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