About this Song
Across Indonesia’s sprawling archipelago, a landscape that nurtures one of the most diverse arrays of creative cultural expression on the planet, the pairing of Ari Lesmana and David Bayu brings to life Selalu, a work that rejects the limiting bounds of mainstream genre classification to exist in the open, exploratory space of Music/Other. This category, far from a catch-all for uncategorizable oddities, serves as a home for sound that defies the rigid expectations that come with established industry labels, work that refuses to be reduced to a single set of sonic tropes or cultural reference points to fit an audience’s pre-conceived notions of what a recording should be. For creators working across Indonesia, this kind of freedom to exist outside pre-defined genre lines is particularly resonant, as the nation’s 17,000-plus islands are home to more than 1,300 distinct ethnic groups, each with their own long-held artistic traditions, their own approaches to sound, storytelling, and creative collaboration.
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