The breadth of world music’s scope stretches across every continent to hold works that are tied to deep, place-specific cultural inheritances, none more vivid in their rootedness than those that emerge from the sprawling archipelagic creative landscape of Indonesia. A nation made up of more than 17,000 individual islands, each home to distinct cultural communities with their own longstanding creative practices, Indonesia’s contributions to global World Music catalogs form a rich, multifaceted body of work that reflects the incredible diversity of the people who call the archipelago home. Patah Arang, the title of this sound work, sits firmly within that lineage of Indonesian creative output, categorized as part of the global World Music genre that has long served as a critical container for sonic works that draw from the localized cultural traditions that shape creation across the country’s many regions.