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World music as a curatorial framework has long centered the nuanced, place-specific sonic traditions that fall outside the scope of mainstream Western pop, classical, and folk categorizations, creating space for works that carry the distinct cultural weight of their origins while resonating with listeners far beyond their home borders. Rooted in the creative landscape of Indonesia, a country whose sprawling archipelago has nurtured an unbroken, diverse tapestry of sonic expression stretching back millennia, Rindu Berat fits firmly within that lineage, joining a vast body of works that carry forward Indonesia’s rich cultural legacy of sound-making for audiences across the globe. Too often, creative works from Southeast Asia are sidelined in mainstream global music discourse, reduced to exoticized novelty or lumped into oversimplified categories that erase the specific cultural, historical, and social contexts that shape their creation.
