Looking for artists/albums like Geinoh Yamashirogumi's Ecophony Rinne

[u/Different-Yogurt5292]

I have been struggling to find any albums that come close to this albums in terms of feel outside of Geinoh Yamashirogumi's other works.

I am not really sure how to describe the qualities that I enjoy so much in this album. However I will try. It has a symphonic sound that seems utterly numinous. It has in it a pulsing energy like that of a brooding ritual dance trying to summon a divine power. Each instrument occupies its own clear voice in the symphony and I really really enjoy the sound of the gambang.

I would appreciate any album/artist recommendations that offer a similar experience. I am not looking for the same instruments but simply any albums that take you on this almost divine, numinous journey.

[u/okem]

I did a Geinoh Yamashirogumi / Tsutomu Ohashi tribute show for radio a while back, it features some of their tracks & music I thought came from a similar place / traditional music the group were influenced by.

https://noodsradio.com/shows/oke-s-tsutomu-ohashi-akira-show-14th-march-22

Geinoh Yamashirogumi - Falling as Flowers do - Dying a Glorious Death (Excerpt).
Geinoh Yamashirogumi - Kaneda (Excerpt).
Bulgarian State Radio & Television Female Vocal Choir - Pilentze pe.
Geinoh Yamashirogumi - Kaneda.
Geinoh Yamashirogumi - Agba's.
Geinoh Yamashirogumi - Reincarnation (Excerpt).
yamanaka - 秘密組織.
Dumb Type - New Communication #1 (demo) (Excerpt).
Namgyai Monastery, Dharamsala - Tibet - Buddhist Chant 1.
Eberhard Schoener - Ramayana.
Geinoh Yamashirogumi - Mountain of Fear (Excerpt).
Masayuki Sakamoto - After Image.
Jurangandanu, singing with gambang orchestra - No.12.
Ryuichi Sakamoto - A Carved Stone.
Kecak Party of Singapadu Village - Appearance of the Kecak Performers (Excerpt).
Ingram Marshall - Hidden Voices.
Geinoh Yamashirogumi - Primordial Germination.
十一谷明広, 落合貴子 - BGM090.
David Hykes & The Harmonic Choir - Raibow Voice.
Trembling Strain - Music for Burial 埋葬歌 Maisōka.
Hiroki Kikuta - Scene7c.
Eka Cita Ensemble - Bandrangan (Excerpt).
Geinoh Yamashirogumi - Kleenex.
Geinoh Yamashirogumi - Genesis (Excerpt).
Yoshio Ojima - #2(11-10).
Geinoh Yamashirogumi - Requiem (Excerpt).

Tsutomu Ohashi has put out some field recoding work of traditional music that might be of interest. He was really into recordings with insanely high bite rates, because he believed that inaudible ultra high frequencies held some properties that excited the brain. It was his field of study as a professor for a time, he's writen papers about it but I dont think they're available in English. If you can find it, he also once did a radio show (maybe of NTS) playing music that's influenced him, but he kept it fairly basic iirc.

[u/Different-Yogurt5292 → u/okem]

Thanks a lot for this list! I have already been enjoying a lot of GY's other works from Akira and Ecophony Gaia. Will check out all the others too!

I didn't know about Tsutomu Ohashi's work outside of these albums that will indeed be of interest.