The Cork ensemble banging a drum for gamelan in Ireland
AT UCC’s School of Music on Sunday’s Well in Cork, a quiet Saturday morning is disturbed by sounds you’d more usually associate with a documentary about the Indonesian island of Java.
The Cork Gamelan Ensemble are rehearsing for this week’s show at Kilkenny Arts Festival. The 10 players swap notes, advice, and instruments and, just like that, are chanting ethereally along to ‘The Parabé Song’, one of the highlights of their debut album, launching to coincide with the gig.
