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Jang Balikan brings together three credited creative voices—Wizz Baker, Toton Caribo, and Jacson Zeran—for a work rooted in Indonesia’s expansive, multifaceted community of musical creators, categorized under the broad umbrella of Music/Other, a classification that exists to hold space for sounds that do not fit neatly into the pre-existing, often rigid genre buckets that structure most music distribution and archiving frameworks. Unlike works that get slotted into widely recognized genre labels that carry pre-existing associations for listeners, Music/Other as a categorization signals that this work exists outside those common framing devices, asking anyone engaging with it to set aside any assumptions they might bring to more familiar types of recorded sound, and approach Jang Balikan on its own terms, without the context that usually comes with a standardized genre label that might prime a listener to expect certain structural, sonic, or cultural touchstones.
