Fantastic cassette from the Gumarang Sakti Group, music for traditional dancing from the Minang area in Sumatera. If you're looking for bad-ass beats to sample, this is your tape!
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Fantastic gending Banyumasan cassette from the Tirta Kencana Group with Nyi Kunes, Nyi Wahyuni and Nyi Djumirah singing, I love that swinging style of gending!!!
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Here's an 80's pop album from Marissa Haque with Fariz RM and the Symphony group.... Marissa Haque was more an actress then a singer and she was and still is married with 80's pop star Ikang Fawzi. Looks like this is a promotional copy for radio stations....
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Here's an interesting one. This seems to be a private recording of ghazal singer Pankaj Udhas performing at some private party in 1982... Who knows, might be never released this one :) Pankaj Udhas is one of the biggest ghazal singers in India and he became famous after he released a ghazal album in 1980 called Aahat. He became so succesful that he was asked to sing as a playback singer for Bollywood movies and he has sung in many, many movies since then.... Playback singers are the folks who really sing the songs sung in Bollywood movies that are lip synced by actors, singers like Lata Mangeshkar, Asha Bhosle, Mohd. Rafi etc. .... Quite a find this one!
Yeah. So, yesterday I bought a bag full of cassettes from India, most of the tapes ghazal music and some other stuff. About 20 or so with the cover and everything, and the seller gave me some 20 extra tapes without cover as a bonus, lot's of stuff where I will have no idea what it is, most of them have at least something written on them. Going to be fun trying to make sense of it all... Starting things off with this one, ghazals by Anuradha Paudal and Chandan Das....
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Here's a gending cassette from Ki Gondo Sudjito with his Ngesthi Larag Group with Nyi Jumiati, Nyi Umitta and Nyi Nurjanah singing....
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Here's a beautiful upacara penganten Sunda cassette from Noneng Rochayati S with the Kancana Arum Group. Music for a traditional Sundanese wedding....
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Here's an album with Dutch-Indonesian music and comedy that came out in 1969, the comedy parts are all spoken in Petjo which is a language spoken by the Dutch-Indonesians (Indo's) and is a kind of mix between Dutch and Indonesian....
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Here's a lovely gambus cassette from Orkes Putri El Surayya. The sound quality on the B side is not that good, I tried cleaning the cassette but to no avail...
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Here's a pop Sunda cassette from Fenty Effendy with Tan Deseng leading the Band Bhakti Siliwangi, he's probably playing the guitar too. There's some real jewels on this one....
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Here's a gending Banyumasan cassette from S. Bono and his Nusa Indah Group with Nyi Jumirah, Nyi Purwi Riswanti, Nyi Marlaih and Nyi Wahyuni singing...
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Here's a very interesting one, klenengan gending music from Surabaya in East-Java and it has a cover from the song Gendjer Gendjer on it. Some of you probably know the story already but I'll tell it again. In the early 60's two records came out with versions of this song. Lilis Suryani's "Lilis.... Ia Tetap Diatas!!" and Jack Lesmana's album "Mari Bersuka Ria" with Orkes Lenso that had Bing Slamet's version of the song on it. Both these albums were banned under the Suharto dictatorship, just having these albums could land you in jail for a long time, heavy torture very probable.... This was because Gerwani, the female wing of the Indonesian Communist Party, the PKI, used to play that song, Gendjer Gendjer, at their meetings....
The song itself has no political message at all, it's about a poor woman eating water spinach (gendjer) and bringing some to the market to sell...
The song's composer, Mohamed Arif, was among the hundreds of thousands murdered when the Suharto regime took over in 1965....
I imagine this record must've been banned too....
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