Here's a wonderful gending cassette from the Sumber Bunga Group from the island of Madura, really, lovely music, very different, like a mix between Central Javanese gending music, Balinese traditional music and Sundanese kliningan music....
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Lengger Kampi was a legendary traditional dancer from Banjarwaru in Central Java. She was one of the big three dancers from that area, the others being Lengger Adminah and Lengger Sopiah (lengger means dancer), and these dances are accompanied by calung music. There were quite a lot of lengger dancers but those three became the most famous... Unfortunately it's, from what I've been reading, a bit of a dying art form. It was always the music of choice at weddings etc. but in modern times people more often choose to have the more modern music forms of campursari and dangdut at their weddings, much like here in West Java where weddings these days have more dangdut then the old traditional music... Here in and around Bandung I have been seeing a lot of renewed interest among youngsters in traditional music, specially wayang and jaipong are pretty popular again these days, and for that I'm grateful.... Took me a moment to realize it but the woman pictured on the cover is actually Lengger Kampi.... This genre, the dances and the music, it all goes pretty deep actually, and I'm reading as much as I can find about at it the moment....
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Cool pop Jawa album from the Orkes Melayu Sami Mawon Group with Laily Dimjathy, Gatot Soenyoto and Syair Anto... This is a promotional copy for radio stations.... Lots of styles mixed in here, reggae, funk, krontjong, dangdut and pop....
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Dewi Sartika (4 December 1884 – 11 September 1947) was the leading figure and pioneer for the education for women in Indonesia. She founded the first school for women in Dutch East Indies. She was acknowledged as a National Hero by the Indonesian government in 1966....
In 1996 The RRI (an Indonesian radio station) put out this cassette, it's the story of her life, all in Indonesian....
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Here's a dangdut album from Riza Umami and Yusnia with Orkes Melayu Bunga Violeta and this is a promotional copy for radio stations....
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Here's a fantastic Tayub Sragen cassette from the Suka Raras Group. Tayub Sragen is a kind of gending music from the Sragen area in Central Java....
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Here's a lovely gending cassette from Ki Nartosabdho with the Keluarga Karawitan R.R.I. Surakarta Group and Nyi Tukinem and Nyi Tugini singing....
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Here's a nasyid haroki cassette with five different Indonesian nasyid haroki groups, Izzatul Islam, Shoutul Harokah, I.R.A., Ar-Ruhul Jadid and Brigif.... This came out in 2006 in support of the Palestinian uprising at the time....
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Very cool gamat cassette from the Lime Stone Band with Yan Juneid, Nurhayati, Erry and Mardiana.... There's seven songs on the B side but only 6 songs listed....
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Here's a wayang bodoran cassette from Asep Sunandar Sunarya and his Giri Harja III Group with Aan Darwati and Nenny Hayati singing.... This one is VERY different and VERY beautiful, not gamelan but very pantun oriented... Wayang Bodoran is a style developed by Asep Sunandar Sunarya, very much focused on the cassette market and almost always just one cassette long, not much focused on story telling but more on just telling jokes, very much disliked by a lot of the older dalang (wayang puppet players), Asep was truly a revolutionary in that genre, coming out with wayang puppets that could do all sorts of things, smoking cigarettes, vomiting; he was very much influenced by another dalang who was also much focused on the cassette market and very much disliked by the older generation of dalang, R. C. Jamar Media who was very, very popular with younger audiences and who was a big innovator (he quit producing wayang and sandiwara ((story telling)) cassettes and became a full time Islamic preacher)....
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