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Berai emerges from the rich, multifaceted creative landscape of Indonesia, a country whose artistic output spans centuries of indigenous cultural practice, modern experimental innovation, and every iteration of soundmaking in between. The work’s classification as Music/Other/Other is not a comment on its artistic merit or coherence, but a reflection of the rigid, often incomplete genre taxonomies that undergird most global music industry systems, taxonomies designed to sort works into easily recognizable buckets that were originally built around the dominant sonic and cultural traditions of Western popular and classical music, leaving little room to contextualize the vast range of works that emerge from non-Western creative contexts, or even experimental works from any context that resist alignment with preexisting genre labels.
