LENGGER KAMPI BANJARWARU - SUWE ORA JAMU

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.... GET IT HERE Enjoy!