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Kaia Kater unleashes the banjo's innovative energy on 'Strange Medicine'
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Kaia Kater unleashes the banjo's innovative energy on 'Strange Medicine', a work that rejects the kind of rigid genre boundaries that would box its creative choices into pre-existing, limited categories, landing instead in the Music/Other/Other classification that holds space for sonic creations that cannot be sorted into the more common, widely used genre buckets that organize most recorded music. Created from a base in Indonesia, the work centers the banjo as its core creative vessel, pushing past long-held assumptions about what the instrument can be and what kinds of sound it can produce, to unlock a sense of innovative possibility that aligns with the cross-cultural, cross-contextual freedom of its open-ended genre classification.
