Song
Don't Force Your Longing
Press play to listen
0:00/4:05
Speed
About this Song
Works of sound that resist every attempt to sort them into the familiar categories we use to hold and share music carry a rare kind of quiet power, the kind that asks listeners to set aside their assumptions about what a piece of art should do, where it should fit, and what it should signal to belong to a lineage of creative work from a specific place. Don't Force Your Longing, the sound credited to Ifan Seventeen that emerges from Indonesia, is exactly that kind of work, a piece that refuses to align with any established genre framework so thoroughly that every attempt to tag it for archival or distribution purposes lands outside the standard set of markers that guide audiences to the sounds they think they want to hear.
