If you like gamelan music and those combinations of sound that, as an emotional catalyst, could soothe down and make you feel at home just like discovering a delicate and quiet panorama outside a favorite window, then this may be good for you.

I just discovered this already out of stock record after listening in the past months to some works by this Seattle ensemble's founder Jarrad Powell (which are, i have to say, more interesting for their writing and technical performances, featuring people like Jessika Kenney and Eyvind Kang, but also boring sometimes). An aluminium gamelan version of the enchanting "In a Landscape" by John Cage (originally scored for piano or harp) is featured here, while the most celebrated track in this album is probably Powell's "Gending Erhu", for gamelan and erhu, and echoes of Lou Harrison's most airy works are traceable in Jon Keliehor's "Peaches of Immortality".