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Across the thousands of islands that make up Indonesia’s territorial expanse, sonic traditions stretch back centuries, woven into the fabric of communal life, ritual, and everyday exchange, forming the backbone of the body of work that comes to be categorized as World Music when it circulates beyond local and regional borders. Tak Guna, the sound at the center of this space, sits within that vast, interconnected network of expression, rooted in the cultural soil of a nation whose musical output defies any single, monolithic framing even as it gets grouped under the broad umbrella of World Music, a category that brings together disparate sonic practices from every corner of the globe to create a space for work that falls outside the dominant commercial frameworks of Western popular music.
