The creator behind Lama-lama Kubisa works from Indonesia, crafting work that sits firmly within the R&B sphere, drawing on the range of possibilities that the genre extends to creators across the global landscape who seek to ground their creative output in a framework that balances intentional craft and resonant structural identity, as this work does. The sound emerges from Indonesia’s robust, longstanding community of R&B creators, a group that has spent decades shaping the genre’s evolution on a global scale, infusing core tenets of R&B practice with the cultural context of their home country to build work that resonates both with local audiences and with listeners across the world who seek out the form’s most innovative entries.