Kecak (Monkey Chant) 

This is absolutely f******* amazing and beautiful. I'm not a uber connoisseur in the kecak matter, but this is the tightest I've seen to date. Congratulations.

as a balinese, i really proud that you did one of our dance in the US. well, the clothes are not accurate tho. but besides that, you performed it well. you, sir, deserve a like!

It's good to see this dance being appreciated internationally.

Forgot to mention, a word of advise for the performing students: next time, try not to spoil all the effect the dance had over you. Just imagine how it would have felt if, at the end of the dance, instead of bursting into cheers and applause, you would have kept at least 10 seconds of silence.

whoa i didn't expected the pronunciation would be that accurate

This is America, where we appreciate different cultures, and practice their beauty! war, racism, and destruction are mutations.

Absolutely incredible job!! I've heard the original recordings and this group just knocks it out of the park!! Wonderful job, bravissimo!!!

Ponniyin selvan 🔥🔥

This piece holds a huge healing power. I saw it live in a Balinese temple in Ubud, performed by Men. I saw it somewhere else on RU-vid performed by Balinese Male singers & dancers again. I now I see it here performed by Western Men & Women... and it still holds and vibrates that healing power. The power is in the sound, voice, movement and intention. Best detach from labels everywhere else it's possible, if you feel like this should belong only in certain places. Respectfully. I enjoyed this video very much 😊 thank you!

Im from Bali and i love your perform so much!

Wonderful that the Kecak is being shared with high school students. I have been to Bali many times and this made me smile and want to travel again.

Thank you Thank you!!! It was so fun and energy filled...

thank you for studying our culture :)

We have Jason. We also studied Central Javanese gamelan and teach / share it with students in Los Angeles! I will upload a video of Central Javanese Gamelan played by California h.s. students. Sundanese music is one of my favorites, especially Degung and Kecapi Suling! There's a fantastic suling player up in San Jose, it's too bad that's not commutable from L.A. Thanks for the comments!

The "solo" type lyrics are improvised - the singing are imitating sounds of the gamelan and the "cak" sounds are the interlocking patterns. It's not written out. Thanks for the kind words :-)

Our next generation of business executives.

im aproud of my culture

mr bungle moment

Thanks Darren, we LOVE to share it wherever and with whomever is interested in it. It makes me smile too and want to travel too :-)

Oh wow. I went to CSSSA/InnerSpark in 1999 and 2000. Such fond memories of this song. Much love to you and Cliff and Rychard. I stumbled across this video in my brainstorming for a vocal/body percussion workshop I'll be teaching at a festival this summer. Hugs! -Ashley Wright

Woii Semetons mai mulih ke Bali😊

beautiful. I want that school of arts in my country.

Hi Ashley!!! Much love to you back - nice to hear from you - hope your festival is going / went well... :-)

I came here after Tamil movie Ponniyin Selvan song “Devaralaan aatam”

Ngl this is so awesome. I used to dance kecak and this is very accurate to the dance lm great job mate!

That's so amazing and beautiful omgggg!!!! I'd LOVE to do that with my high school!

Best cover 😅❤

Thank you Santoso Khasan!

Impresionante, que belleza, gracias.

Monkey chant comes from Ramayanam, epic of Indian tale!

wowwwwww amazing you doing perfect....!!!!

that was just quality, respect.

really nice :P everyone commits this was better than i expected

Absolute Fun!

Love it ✨

I wonder if humans feel attracted to this type of music because it’s like some ancient instinct stuff? Like thousands of years ago when tribes of hunter gatherers would do this did of in some plains. It makes you feel a sense of togetherness. Like safety and comfort within the people. Idk I’m probably just high as shit

Bali, Indonesia! 😄

I do too Arjuna Juna! very very much :-)

The Ramayana "myth" was actually added by Walter Spies, from Europe, in the 1930's. The original kecak has no such story.

that's really awesome.. great to see this video

my culture 😆

I want to earn a gym credit for this.

A M A Z I N G.......

Nice..

How long did it take you guys to remember the movements and chants?

waw..... i lov indonesia

I am so impressed :) is there a way to get liricks for this chant? or is this taught without liricks??? How can I teach a group this. So amazing and inspiring :)

Wow....I like this a lot. Recent Tamil movie has these touch in it. Check out Devaralan Aatam song

Thanks so much Aditya Wiranatha! I love your island and culture!!! Rick Patrick - it's my absolute PLEASURE to study your culture :-). Tino Trivino - ain't that the truth...

4.24 Very Jazzy

well done!

I would love to do this at my high school, do you think we could connect somehow? I am afraid of not doing it authentically...

en dat ter ere van sun wukong[the eternal ape]

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wa moy angay

The form deprived of the myth. A symbol of American society.

Sorry, I wasn't the editor, perhaps I can get the full version from him and re-upload...

Bali.

I love flash mobs! =D

like it,.hhahah kreatife

What does it say about me if I find this to be the most incredible thing I've ever seen? This is beyond mesmerising.

i u n d e r stand

This looks and sounds a lot more like what I saw in the late 50's than the dozens of touristized performances out in youtube land. On the other hand, the costumes in this one do seem to be not quite authentic. And the one I remember had at least twice as many performers.

Devaralan Aatam - Ponniyin Selvan!

indonesian cultur👍

Try Javanese and Sundanese Culture also, Its a sweeet culture and music

1:25 soft cut in the middle of when it gets good!? bad form, editor! The sheer awesomeness of the performers saved this vid from a thumbs down - dislike.

I watched the entire sequence, congrats, very nice for Westerners!

It could only be better if they broke into Bohemiem Rhapsody, half way through 🤔🤔

I sampled the original chant if you wanna check it out, link is below Listen to LIT [PROD JP] by 808KiiNG #np on #SoundCloud soundcloud.com/808kiing/lit-prod-by-jp

wait, THAT'S what CSSSA stands for?

Who else came from Tetris Effect Ritual Passion?

For some reason, this seems more authentic that the kecak performed by indigenous balinese people. But then again, nowadays they are performing only four tourists. Tourists are quite a plague, they kill everything authentic in a culture.

That is extremely cool, but isn't it supposed to be depicting a battle?

this is not a proof for the hairy ball theorem

#Ten2Five#Cherrybelle#S9b

A shame it's just Governor's School kids doing this.

Amazing, I wonder if there's an SJW somewhere shrieking "CULTURAL APPROPRIATION" lol, anyway this is an amazing performance