Album Notes

Drawing from the chordal & melodic beauty of Brazilian jazz & pop, and the textural & rhythmic complexity of Indonesian gamelan music, 9 on Bali has forged a new kind of progressive rock. Sanur is one 26-minute piece. Here 9 on Bali explores these exotic landscapes with touches of hand made percussive instruments, gongs, rindik, and kalimba along with the standard "rock gear" of guitars, keyboards, and drums. The music is at times intricate & layered, heavy, ambient, experimental, and poppy. Walking along the beach in "Sanur" you can hear the lingering phrases of various schools of gamelan music intermingling in the air from the speedy agressiveness of the gamelan kebyar to the slow heaviness of the jegog. 9 on Bali attempts to capture that same feeling in "Sanur."