assalamualaikum wbt!
we did it, in short. as january kicks in, we have started our first training for this event. Ensemble of Gamelan aside from a normal gamelan showcase is something that we would always try to make it. It's a celebration of 10 years anniversary of Gamelan UTP, our previous-current-associate-loved gamelan group.
without Gamelan UTP being existed and founded by our seniors, we would not be able to play gamelan, as we are now. graduated, working yet playing gamelan to our heart content! we loved music, we loved to play gamelan, and we enjoyed being part of gamelan. there are a lot to it aside from music, there is legacy, tradition and long history of using gamelan to promote something great.
and there we are, after performing at Ensemble of Gamelan (EoG), we were invited to perform at Dewan Filharmonik PETRONAS together with our associate, Space Gambus Experiment. It is an outstanding oppurtunity even for us, despite some of us had played here before with Gamelan UTP, but for EiG, it is a starting point.
this is where we would return to, to play our songs to other people.
for both of the event, we performed song entitled 'Kepulangan' where it bring the idea of us, the graduated student to play a song showing that we are still here, holding to gamelan.
and thank you to all EiG players. without you, we would not be able to complete this huge milestone, celebrating 10 years anniversary as well as rising up our level to another level.
we would always continue the legacy, the tradition as well as exploring new ways of gamelan performance.
with that, we open our humble hands to those people who wanted to collaborate with us, insyaAllah we can maintain this legacy and at the same time bring gamelan to a different game.
this is the recorded sound of Kepulangan. It is an answer to what would it be if experimentalist meets up with traditionalist. enjoice!
EiG
