Indonesian music
2016-03-30 — 2024-01-14
Wherein Indonesia’s Musical Traditions Are Presented With Gamelan’s Tuned Gongs Traced Into Contemporary Scenes, Where Recordings and Distortion Pedals Are Used to Rework Island Sounds.
(((Laut ~ Loud))) is a project by Arka Kinari (Filastine & Nova) recording musicians and music from around the incredible fringes of the archipelago
Neosantara is my contemporary Indonesian music Spotify playlist
YESNOWAVE is a frank and fearless label promoting Indonesian music via free releases, including lots of political, unorthodox and left-field releases.
madrotter treasure hunt is an amazing trove of Indonesian cassettes and vinyl otherwise lost to the internet.
Sumarsam is an East Javanese lecturer in Indonesian music theory and his pedagogy for Western students is good, and freely available.
Austronesian Outpost of Anaphoria is an imaginary island that happens to use many tricks from the Indonesian gong tunings. Kind of a Gamelan tribute band.
Sethares on tuning systems generally, and the weird things that happen in Southeast Asia especially.
Daniel Ziv’s movie Jalanan, about buskers, seems to get hard to find after Vimeo was banned in Indonesia
I know more about Sundanese music specifically, so that has its own page.
Dangdut cover weirdness by Koplo time