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July 22, 2006
I'm On A Mexican.... Gamelan?
In my never-ending quest to find more gamelan degung music for my growing collection of music from Indonesia, I stumbled upon perhaps the funniest recording I've heard in ages. It's a gamelan version of the Wall of Voodoo song, "Mexican Radio."
I'm serious.
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A bizarre twist on one of the great songs of the 1980s, this version, by a gamelan band called Monkey C, sounds as if Tom Waits had quit Los Angeles and high-tailed it to Bali. Perhaps you have to be a fan of both Wall of Voodoo and gamelan music, but I sure got a kick out of it. It's an instrumental, probably because they couldn't replace the line, "I wish I was in Tijuana/Eating barbequed iguana" with an appropriate Indonesian city to rhyme with "gecko."
Anyway, Check it out. -andy
Posted by acarvin at July 22, 2006 10:10 PM
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