Laila Ayu, the credited artist behind Gadis Manis Kalimantan (feat. MAHESA Music), creates from a cultural and geographic foundation rooted entirely in Indonesia, a Southeast Asian nation made up of over 17,000 islands that hold a vast array of distinct regional identities, each with its own set of shared cultural touchstones that appear regularly in the country’s recorded sound output. The title of this sound references one of Indonesia’s most geographically significant regions, Kalimantan, the area of the island of Borneo that falls under Indonesian governance, a region that spans three provinces and is home to a huge range of Indigenous and settled communities that have shaped the cultural fabric of the entire nation for centuries.