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About this Song
Sholawat Badar emerges from Indonesia’s sprawling, interconnected creative landscape, a work classified as Music/Mix, a category reserved for sounds that draw from multiple distinct sonic lineages to form a unified whole that defies the narrow boundaries of single-genre labeling. The choice to place this work within the Music/Mix framework reflects a broader understanding of creative production across Indonesia, where creative practitioners working across every island of the archipelago regularly pull from the diverse cultural inheritances of their own communities, as well as the traditions of neighboring groups, to craft works that feel both rooted in longstanding heritage and responsive to contemporary creative impulses.
