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Folk and Pop Sounds of Sumatra Vol​.​1

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Folk and Pop Sounds of Sumatra Vol.1
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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.


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 July 2003.
Final editing / mastering at Gravelvoice in Seattle, August 2003.

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released January 12, 2022

1 Haba Haba Group– Sitogol #1 5:08
2 Unknown Artist– Unknown Title 3:04
3 Marios Group– Borungku Si Derita 5:16
4 Pimp Rubiah*– Siti Payung 3:44
5 Samsimar– Indang Pariaman 5:05
6 Unknown Artist– Piso Somalim #1 5:09
7 Pimp Rubiah*– Sri Mersing 3:36
8 Samsimar– Bapikek Balam 3:55
9 Unknown Artist– Piso Somalim #2 2:49
10 Haba Haba Group– Sitogol #2 14:27



Compiled By – Alan Bishop
Liner Notes – Alan Bishop
Mastered By – Scott Colburn

Assembled and compiled in July 1989.
Images from original cassette covers.

Gatefold sleeve.
Liner notes : July 2003.
Tracks A4 and B5 are credited as performed by Piso Somalim on inside of gatefold.

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SUBLIME FREQUENCIES is a collective of explorers dedicated to exposing obscure sights and sounds from modern and traditional urban and rural frontiers via film and video, field recordings, radio and short wave transmissions, international folk and pop music, sound anomalies, other forms of human and natural natural expression not documented sufficiently enough by various communication channels. ... more

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