Jon Keliehor’s extensive involvement in dance, theatre and film has produced a highly ‘visual’ music, creating links between Indonesian gamelan, percussion and experimental domains. Performance artists and dance companies in the USA, UK, and Venezuela have mentioned that his music may only be comprehensible to shamans, venomous snakes and twigsmen. The jury is still out, however upon listening to it many have survived. What we do know is that Keliehor transforms his music with a hyper-real attention to the detail of percussion sounds, and a handful of other deceptively simple instruments. The music that results from this obsessive devotion is mostly contemporary; a surreal kaleidoscope of aural landscapes and harmonic possibilities.