"a remarkably visual listening experience that compels and captivates at every turn... With ShadowBang [Ziporyn] has created his most ambitions and, possibly, enduring work to date. Intended to be experienced in toto, ShadowBang is both an entertaining and enlightening way to spend an hour." read more
John Kelman, All About Jazz
July 12, 2004

"Evan Ziporyn With I Wayan Wija: Shadowbang" (Cantaloupe): Since Debussy first saw a Balinese gamelan orchestra at the Paris World's Fair near the start of the 20th century, Javanese music has been a source of inspiration to Western musicians. Bang On a Can clarinetist Evan Ziporyn teams up on this disc with shadow puppet master I Wayan Wija and an ensemble of instruments more common to rock bands than classical music to create this original and entertaining look at the Balinese entertainment world, finding uncommon common ground in the process.
Dan Buckley, Tucson Citizen
"Ten classical discs to play again and again"
November 27, 2003

Another world. ShadowBang, the fusion puppet show by Evan Ziporyn and I Wayan Wija that came to MIT's Kresge Little Theater in October, offered us the chance to laugh without irony or guilt for the first time in many weeks. The Balinese shadow play sets opposites alongside each other: good and evil, humans and supernaturals, heroes and villains, lower-class sages and confused nobles. You can't always tell the good guys from the bad guys, and in battle neither side wins conclusively. It's the world not as it should be but as it is - in highly fictionalized form.
Boston Phoenix "A Year in Dance" 2003