"transporting...beautiful and inspired sounds"
--Alisa Soloman, Village Voice

"Electric Junkyard Gamelan makes music that is the product of a highly personal vision, and Dame's originality is alone enough reason to come check out the Big Barp in person".
--James Heflin, Valley Advocate-Northampton, MA

"all those twangs and clangs mesh into exceedingly danceable grooves."
--Ben Rubenstein, Centerstage, Chicago

"Terry Dame is one of those eccentric musicians for whom composing isn't enough, she has to create new instruments as well. A downtown fixture."
--Time Out New York

"What is immediately fascinating about the audiovisual sensation that is Electric Junkyard Gamelan is their use of invented instruments - the instruments resurrect the spirits of a land that is, for them, far, far away."
--Morgan Harrington, The Jakarta Post

"Dame has created a panopoly of homemade instruments that are not only visually fascinating but sonically stunning."
-- Iris Hiskey Arno, The Rivertowns Enterprise

"Electric Junkyard Gamelan makes music so original they had to invent their own instruments to play it. It's wild enough to please fans...regardless of genre." --Global Rhythms Magazine

"...rhythmic, near-hypnotic music." --HX Magazine

" a scattered mix of foreign music that mixes jangling and banging with worldly sounds. The EJG definitely knows what it--s playing. It never feels disjointed or awkward, but always feels out of this world; at times natural, earthy..."
--Michael Levy, New Haven Advocate

"Electric Junkyard Gamelan is brilliant musically -- it blows your mind when you look at all the instruments they play on -- Terry's passion for creating instruments is truly inspired and the musicians under her direction are a tight ensemble -- they quite simply -- play great music. I always look forward to hiring this group. They define cool."
--Liz Liebeskind, Executive Director--12 Milesnorth.org

"Electric Junkyard Gamelan returned this september to Cleveland's Ingenuity Festival which features hundreds of musicians, performing and exhibiting artists. Again EJG rose to the occasion as one of the "cant miss" events of the three day festival. with its edgy but melodic sounds, invented instruments, and amazing stage presence (cool, tough and zany) it is a performance that would compliment any festival anywhere."
--James Levin, Founder and Artistic Director

"Electric Junkyard Gamelan worked perfectly into our curriculum topic of creating unique and original instruments for our sixth grade. Students were mesmerized by the range of instrumentation that Terry Dame has created, and were at the edge of their seats as they listened, as were the adults! EJG certainly lit the flame of inspiration in our youngsters here at the Scarsdale Middle School for a full day last spring."
--Dr. Constance Shelengian-Music Department Chairperson

"EJG brought down the house in sleepy little Bedford, VA. The audience loved every minute of the exuberant, exciting music."
--Sara Braaten, Director of the Bower Center for the Arts

"Terry Dame and her Electric Junkyard Gamelan were the perfect match for our students and their study of the sound.. Their highly imaginative yet practical approach to assembling “instruments” from found objects was just the ticket to engaging the enthusiasm of the students in the creation of their instruments."
--Damon Cole
Arts Facilitator for Johnson School of the Arts, Cedar Rapids, IA

"...powerful, mesmerizing and ever changing."
--Ellie Covan, Founder/Director of Dixon Place, NYC