About this Song
The creators who contribute to Indonesia’s rich lineage of contemporary R&B build their creative identities within a sprawling, interconnected community of artists that spans the country’s major cultural hubs, each bringing their own formative creative experiences to bear on the work they release into the world. Their relationship to the R&B genre grows from years of engaging with the way the form has traveled across borders, shifting and adapting to the specific cultural contexts it lands in, while retaining the core throughlines that have made it an enduring staple of global popular music for decades. This deep engagement with both the history of the genre they work within and the specific context of their home country’s creative ecosystem shapes every step of the process that leads from the earliest conceptualization of a new work to the finished sound that audiences encounter.
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