HARAPPIAN NIGHT RECORDINGS - THE GLORIOUS GONGS OF HAINUWELE (CD - USED m-/m-)

"The music and sounds are created entirely by one man, Dr. Syed Kamran Ali. He has such an instinctive feel for putting seemingly incongruous sounds together and such audacious irreverence in utilizing any instrument or object from around the globe he can lay his hands on, that what he creates is unique. The real miracle, however, is that his attention-deficit, scatter-gun, one-take approach so often works. It's an anarchic buzz of ideas constantly usurping each other. Duelling ouds, whirling mizmars, screeching jouhikkos, tapping finger harps, rumbling monosynths, groaning harmoniums, a fist full of khene, talking gamelan lila derderba popping, giving a bent-backed Dante's ring hell or like an Egyptian civilian army shitting on Eden's skull, or a Cuban guerilla force stepping on Eisenhower's throat, emptying their glorious bladders on his face." (label info)