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About this Song
Indonesia’s archipelagic expanse, spanning thousands of islands across the Indian and Pacific Oceans, has fostered an extraordinary breadth of sonic heritage, one that the global category of world music works to document, circulate, and center for audiences far beyond the nation’s borders. As a sound rooted in this rich Indonesian cultural landscape, Tanpa Iman contributes to a long line of creations that draw from the country’s interconnected but distinct regional traditions, each of which carries its own history of communal expression, ritual use, and creative evolution, all of which fall under the wide umbrella of world music, a framework that exists to counteract the erasure of non-Western sonic practices that have long been excluded from mainstream global music industries.
