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The Evergreen Club Evergreen Club contemporary gamelan is dedicated to the development of contemporary music for gamelan as well as the study and performance of Indonesian music in the Sundanese degung tradition. Originating from the Sunda region of west Java, the degung type of gamelan played by the Evergreen Club uses a characteristic scale consisting of five notes per octave, referred to as Laras Pelog, Surupan Degung, or roughly, scale: pelog, mode: degung. The group was formed in 1983 by Canadian composer Jon Siddall and has commissioned and performed over 200 world premieres of works by many leading contemporary composers. In addition, it has continued to learn, perform and record traditional and new Sundanese music. Based in Toronto, Evergreen Club is Canada's first performing gamelan. It is one of the few professional gamelans outside of Indonesia and has toured extensively across its home country as well as internationally from Japan to Europe and recently to Indonesia, the home of gamelan. The contemporary works written for Evergreen Club highlight the gamelan itself, as well as a category it calls gamelan-plus. Gamelan-plus are works which may include guest soloists, guest ensembles, solo and ensemble dances, or auxiliary media such as film and electronics. The resulting repertoire reflects an eclectic and very idiosyncratic intermingling of global cultural sensibilities. The Evergreen Club has presented world premieres for gamelan and gamelan-plus by leading composers such as Walter Boudreau, John Cage, Lou Harrison, James Tenney, Gilles Tremblay, John Wyre and Evan Zaporyn. Other projects have included live gamelan accompaniment to the screening of balifilm by Swiss/Canadian filmmaker Peter Mettler; Aneh Tapi Nyata for gamelan, three dancers and nonet by American composer Evan Zaporyn; and a large contribution to the soundtrack of The Ice Storm, a film by director Ang Lee [Crouching Tiger...] with music composed by Mychael Danna. Over the years, Evergreen Club has performed at many premiere venues around the world, including Massy Hall, Toronto; the Percussive Arts Society's International Convention, Columbus, Ohio; Cite de la Musique, Paris, France; Westbank Centre, London, England; Rasa Centruum Utrecht, Holland; Conservatory of Music, Ghent, Belgium; Expo 1998, Lisboa, Portugal; Expo 2000, Kyoto, Japan; Hanover, Germany; Yogyakarta Gamelan Festival 2002, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, etc.
1 - Anjeun (Nano S.) 2 - Jeruk Bali (nn) 3 - Pulo Ganti (nn) 4 - Gamelan Solo (Mark Duggan) 5 - Samagaha (Burhan Sukarma) 6 - Rengga Renggi (Burhan Sukarma) 7 - Sorban Palid (nn)