Various - Folk And Pop Sounds Of Sumatra Volume 1
Label:
Catalog#:
SF001
Format:
CD, Compilation
Country:
US
Released:
2003
Genre:
Folk, World, & Country,
Pop
Style:
Folk
Tracklist
| 1 | Haba Haba Group - | Sitogol #1 | ||
| 2 | Unknown Artist - | Unknown Title | ||
| 3 | Marios Group - | Borungku Si Derita | ||
| 4 | Pimp Rubiah - | Siti Payung | ||
| 5 | Samsimar - | Indang Pariaman | ||
| 6 | Unknown Artist - | Piso Somalim #1 | ||
| 7 | Pimp Rubiah - | Sri Mersing | ||
| 8 | Samsimar - | Bapikek Balam | ||
| 9 | Unknown Artist - | Piso Somalim #2 | ||
| 10 | Haba Haba Group - | Sitogol #2 |
Credits
Artwork By [Layout] -
Thiri Einsi
Edited By [Assistant] - Scott Colburn
Mastered By [Assistant] - Scott Colburn
Notes By - AB*
Photography - Alan Bishop
Edited By [Assistant] - Scott Colburn
Mastered By [Assistant] - Scott Colburn
Notes By - AB*
Photography - Alan Bishop
Notes
Tracks 1 & 10 are in the Haroan Boru style
Track 2 is in the Sumatran Dangdut style
Track 3 is in the Tapanuli style
Tracks 4 & 7 are in the Orkes Melayu Asli style
Tracks 5 & 8 are in the Saluang Dangdut style
Tracks 6 & 9 are excerpts from dramatic productions
Collection compiled by Alan Bishop, July 2003.
Final editing / mastering at Gravelvoice in Seattle, August 2003.
Summary from website:
An essential collection of unique folk and pop music from the Island of Sumatra, including drone beat pop, jungle folk trance, gypsy hybrid songs, haunting vocal chants, and other beautiful, lost styles, which have yet to be discovered.
Notes from release and website:
The equator runs through only ten countries on earth and I bet that you cannot name them all without consulting a map. Indonesia is one of them and the only nation in Asia with the equatorial stripe impaling it. There are so many different cultures spread-out on these islands, that it would take several lifetimes to experience them all properly. Within this umbrella of diversity is one of the world's richest and most dazzling sound museums. Sumatra is the northwestern entry point to the great archipelago. It is a large island approximately the size of California. There are jungles, mountains, swamps, various forms of myths and folklore, hustlers, Padang Food, Tigers, the Durian, dozens of cultures and languages, and more music than you've ever been allowed to hear. The selections on this CD are a combination of droning beat pop, pseudo-gypsy songs, jungle folk trance, and other improbable traditional and hybrid styles heard by only a handful of outsiders. These recordings are from old cassette tapes received as gifts, in trade, or purchased from sources in Sumatra in 1989. Some of the tapes are unmarked with the artists unknown, yet all of them are decaying documents of various sound quality containing some of the most eccentric artifacts ever uncovered from this fascinating island.
Track 2 is in the Sumatran Dangdut style
Track 3 is in the Tapanuli style
Tracks 4 & 7 are in the Orkes Melayu Asli style
Tracks 5 & 8 are in the Saluang Dangdut style
Tracks 6 & 9 are excerpts from dramatic productions
Collection compiled by Alan Bishop, July 2003.
Final editing / mastering at Gravelvoice in Seattle, August 2003.
Summary from website:
An essential collection of unique folk and pop music from the Island of Sumatra, including drone beat pop, jungle folk trance, gypsy hybrid songs, haunting vocal chants, and other beautiful, lost styles, which have yet to be discovered.
Notes from release and website:
The equator runs through only ten countries on earth and I bet that you cannot name them all without consulting a map. Indonesia is one of them and the only nation in Asia with the equatorial stripe impaling it. There are so many different cultures spread-out on these islands, that it would take several lifetimes to experience them all properly. Within this umbrella of diversity is one of the world's richest and most dazzling sound museums. Sumatra is the northwestern entry point to the great archipelago. It is a large island approximately the size of California. There are jungles, mountains, swamps, various forms of myths and folklore, hustlers, Padang Food, Tigers, the Durian, dozens of cultures and languages, and more music than you've ever been allowed to hear. The selections on this CD are a combination of droning beat pop, pseudo-gypsy songs, jungle folk trance, and other improbable traditional and hybrid styles heard by only a handful of outsiders. These recordings are from old cassette tapes received as gifts, in trade, or purchased from sources in Sumatra in 1989. Some of the tapes are unmarked with the artists unknown, yet all of them are decaying documents of various sound quality containing some of the most eccentric artifacts ever uncovered from this fascinating island.