Dewa Budjana
Tohpati, Adhitya Pratama, Demas Narawangsa - Janapati
Review by Gary Hill
I've reviewed works from a couple of these guys in the past. Generally the music lands in the vein of fusion. This particular set has a lot more classical music built into it, but still has some of the other element. The one thing you can always count on with these guys, though, is quality. This has plenty of that particular commodity. One thing about Dewa Budjana is that he keeps doing these groupings and releasing them under the names of all the musicians. Well, the print edition of MSJ doesn't have to do artist listings from issue to issue, so it works fine for that. In the case of the online edition, it would get to be too cumbersome to have individual artist listings for each of these variants. So, online version is just under his name with the rest of them listed as part of the title. It's a necessary compromise for the internet version, and another reason that the print edition is the definitive one.
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