Uploaded December 2024 | Updated September 2026, 5 days ago

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I really have very little information about this tape beyond its title and the reasonable assumption that it comes from Bali, Indonesia. One of the tape's sides isn't playable, so I only ripped one side.
The only entry relating to it I could find was the following list of tapes contained in an individual's box.
https://archon.library.illinois.edu/archives/?p=collections/findingaid

UPDATE - @SiKedek provided an extensive package of information about every song here and I, on behalf of the Community, am massive grateful. See below for the original comment.

0:00 - Hujan Mas (Golden Rain): An extremely popular, classic kebyar composition by I Gede Purana from the early 1960s, characteristic of the dynamic North Bali style. However, it's played by a group in Pewatan, Gianyar Regency (i.e., south Bali), in this recording.

5:40 - Goak Macok (Crows Stabbing): One of the emblematic kebyar pieces from the village of Pinda (Blahbatuh, Gianyar Regency - the other piece is Manuk Anguci), and the village itself still boasts of many accomplished musicians and proponents of Pinda-style gong kebyar music, the most famous being Pak Ketut Cater, longtime music director of Sanggar Semara Ratih in Ubud, along with Pak Nyoman "Kader" Kariasa, Pak Cater's junior counterpart. This piece reflects the short, staccatto tutti-like phrases that were emblematic of the kebyar music from the 1960s and 70s, which descend into its rather cyclically unusual pangecet (final "rhapsodic" melodic cycle).

13:24 - Jaya Warsa (Year of Victory): Played by the famed Jaya Kesuma group of Gladag, South Denpasar. I believe that Gladag had a rather close relationship with the Puri Pemecutan, one of the main royal palaces in the Denpasar area.

25:42 - Langen Gita (Contemplative Song): I presume this is played by Sekaa Tunjung Bang of Banjar Bangah, Baturiti, Tabanan. I have quite the personal connection to this group since this was the home group of my first Balinese gamelan teacher, Pak Made Lasmawan, who has been teaching in the Colorado area for the past 30 years, primarily as the artistic director of Gamelan Tunas Mekar based in Denver, Colorado. He may have played kendang/drum for this particular track - I'll have to ask him when I have the chance. (Thanks for finding this!)