"The French drummer Guigou Chenevier was a founder member of the prog-punk-jazz pioneers Etron Fou Leloublan in 1973. Here he leads a rock line-up of drums, bass, keyboards, two guitars and a lead vocalist, alongside a seven-piece gamelan ensemble from Java. An extraordinarily natural, organic balance ensues, with neither aspect being compromised ... Balungan is the Javanese word for 'Skeleton,' but this is a fully-muscled ensemble, with deranged fuzz guitar solos, chunky electric basslines, rippling metallophone action and sensuous wooden flute interludes. The keyboards mimic the gamelan progressions, adding emphasis, and a big bass gong occasionally delineates crucial turning points ... This scintillating performance illustrates the ultimate strategy for uniting traditional Indonesian gamelan and crazed French rock, certainly not a regular occurrence".
