Indonesia: Wayang Golek - Sound & Celebration/ Va - Indonesia: Wayang Golek - The Sound & Celebration Of Sundanese PuppetTheater

(6-CD box set) An exciting & popular performance art, "Wayang Golek" celebrates significant life-cycle events & other important social occasions in the lives of the Sundanese people. This set presents an entire all-night telling of one tale accompanied by gamelan, tuned gongs, metal-keyed instruments, drums, flute, fiddle & vocals. An enhanced CD makes the story accessible with a complete transcription of the original text translated into English & Indonesian. The performance is by Adep Sunandar Sunarya & Giri Harja III, the most popular & innovative puppeteers of the 1990s. This was recorded in 1994 during the last years of the Soeharto regime.