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About this Song
Bernadya’s practice as an artist working within Indonesia’s sprawling, multifaceted creative music community underpins every layer of her sound work, which exists outside the narrow silos of popular genre classifications to occupy the broad, exploratory space of Music/Other, a category reserved for works that resist easy categorization by standard music industry frameworks. The sound, titled Masa Sepi, emerges from a lineage of Indonesian creators who draw from the full depth of their country’s cultural and creative heritage to build work that defies the limits of what listeners might expect from more conventionally categorized recordings, leaning into the kind of creative freedom that allows artists to prioritize expressive intent over the need to fit a preexisting market or artistic box.
