Pak Rosid plays a song on his homemade multi-tube celempung.

Pak Rosid - Celempung Piece

Pak Arman Idris plays a short Batang Hari Sembilan tune in his home near Pagaralam, South Sumatra.

Arman Idris - Kamung Ghungkat

Pak Arman Idris plays a longer, more traditional Batang Hari Sembilan piece in his home near Pagaralam, South Sumatra.

Arman Idris - Nasib Melarat

Ka Sepri plays a longer Batang Hari Sembilan tune in the living room of a house in Tanjungsakti, South Sumatra. The piece is based off of lyrics written by another villager who joined the recording session.

Sepri - Suare Hati

Ne'Karombi plays his jew's harp in his house in Batutamonga, North Tana Toraja, Sulawesi.

Ne'Karombi - Pa'Karombi

A group of women (plus one man)rhythmically pound rice in a large rice-mortar for a house-building ceremony near Lemo, Tana Toraja, Sulawesi.

Ma'Tumbuk - Rice Pounding Music in Lemo

An excerpt of Nek Amir playing a suling lembang piece under a rice barn in Toda Panggala', Tana Toraja, South Sulawesi.

Nek Amir - Passuling Tudolo (excerpt)

A Musik Bambu orchestra in the small mountain village of Wai Wai, Enrekang, South Sulawesi plays a cover of a 1960s rock song by Koes Plus.

Grup Musik Bambu Wai Wai- Kolam Susu

Pak Tombo Padhua plays an unnamed piece on the calong, the traditional percussion instrument of the Mandar people of West Sulawesi. 

Tinambung, Polewali Mandar, West Sulawesi.

Learn more at:

http://www.auralarchipelago.com/auralarchipelago/2014/06/the-singing-coconuts-of-mandar.html

Tombo Padhua - Calong Piece

Sayang Sayang group playing the picking style/song called "Kemayoran" outside Tinambung in Mandar regency, West Sulawesi, Indonesia.

Learn more at:

http://www.auralarchipelago.com/auralarchipelago/2014/10/sayang-sayang-guitar-music-of-west.html



Siasayangngi - "Kemayoran"

Three street musicians play zither and sing in a warung in Surakarta, Central Java.

Learn more at:

http://www.auralarchipelago.com/auralarchipelago/2014/08/street-zither-in-solo.html

Street Siter in Solo

A sasandu musician plays outside of his home in Ba'a, Rote.

http://www.auralarchipelago.com/auralarchipelago/2014/08/searching-for-sasando.html

Batu Matia - Unknown Sasandu Player

Ngada villagers in Bena sing hymns during their Sunday morning church session.

Learn more at:

http://www.auralarchipelago.com/auralarchipelago/2014/08/the-bena-sunday-church-choir.html

Doa Bapa Kami - Bena Sunday Choir

Pak Iyet performs a piece of Cigawiran music, a kind of Sundanese devotional music found only in Cigawir, a small village in West Java.

Learn more at:

http://www.auralarchipelago.com/auralarchipelago/2014/08/cigawiran-in-cigawir-devotional.html

Pak Iyet Dimyati - Untitled Cigawiran Piece

Tingkilan group BSBI plays in Samarinda, East Kalimantan, Indonesia.

Learn more at:

http://www.auralarchipelago.com/auralarchipelago/2014/10/tingkilan-gambus-fusion-in-east.html

Grup Tingkilan BSBI - " Buah Ara"

Tingkilan group BSBI plays "Pendidikan" in Samarinda, East Kalimantan, Indonesia.

Learn more at:

http://www.auralarchipelago.com/auralarchipelago/2014/10/tingkilan-gambus-fusion-in-east.html

Grup Tingkilan BSBI - Pendidikan

Dayak Kayan musician Pak Paran plays the traditional Dayak lute called sape' kayan in his home in Sungai Ting, Kayan Mendalam, West Kalimantan, Indonesia.

Pak Paran - Lengilin

Pak Paran plays a song traditionally used in shamanistic healing ceremonies.

Generously produced by Jesse Clark http://www.jesseclark.org/

Learn more at:

http://www.auralarchipelago.com/auralarchipelago/2014/10/location-sungai-ting-kayan-mendalam.html

I. Paran Lii' - Sape' Kayan Healing Song

I recorded this musician after meeting him in the caves in Taman Hutan Raya north of Bandung, West Java, Indonesia. The musician goes by the name "Happy."

Learn more at:

http://www.auralarchipelago.com/auralarchipelago/2014/11/sounds-of-sundanese-street-musicians-pt.html

Kota Sumedang

Osing farmer/musicians play angklung paglak music high in a watchtower high above the rice paddies in Banyuwangi, East Java.

Musicians: Pak Dalah, Pak Rayis, Pak Muni, and Pak Ribut

Learn more at:

http://www.auralarchipelago.com/auralarchipelago/2014/12/angklung-paglak-bamboo-sounds-high.html

Grup Angklung Paglak Kemiren - "Rembyik"

A performance of jaranan buto by Osing musicians outside the Banyuwangi train station at the edge of East Java.

Learn more at:

http://www.auralarchipelago.com/auralarchipelago/2015/01/songs-after-dawn-drone-and-trance-in.html

Sanggar Seni Trisno Budoyo - Jaranan Buto

Karambangan Poso group plays their acoustic string-band jam in Leboni, Central Sulawesi.

Yanto - seruling
Wisman - padengko
Adris N. - seruling
Julmiadi - pengiring
Ikel - padengko
Asis - geso-geso
Yordan ito - kulele
Marten - karambangan (gitar)
Yun - Juk

Learn more at:

http://www.auralarchipelago.com/auralarchipelago/2015/04/central-sulawesi-sounds-karambangan.html

Grup Solonca - Ode Pindongo

A group from Gelangsar, West Lombok, Indonesia, plays genggong, a kind of wooden jaw harp played by the Sasak people of Lombok.

The musicians are: Bpk Bpk. Sahman, H. Jalaludin, Rafi'i, Darmali, and Jemurah. 

Learn more at:

http://www.auralarchipelago.com/auralarchipelago/2015/05/lampa-lampa-lombok-pt-1-genggong-in.html

Gerup Genggong Tunggal Senang Bukit Batu - "Petemoan"

Lalu Satrun, a cotton candy (gule in Lombok, aromanis in Indonesian) salesman from Kembang Kerang, Lombok, plays his gule gending, a musical instrument which doubles as a device for selling cotton candy.

"Turun Tangis" means "Starting to Cry" - a song meant to accompany the crying of a child for cotton candy!

Hear, watch, and learn more at:

http://www.auralarchipelago.com/auralarchipelago/2015/06/lampa-lampa-lombok-pt-2-cotton-candy.html

Lalu Satrun - "Turun Tangis"

Kulcapi (a two-stringed boat lute), ketteng-ketteng (a struck bamboo zither which functions as a gong/drum), and mangkok (a white porcelain bowl struck by a stick) jam in a carrot field near Mount Sinambung in the Karo Highlands, North Sumatra. 

Gendang Kulcapi Karo

The fantastic band at the Endah Parahyangan Jaipong Club in downtown Bandung starts the evening out with a great one.

Learn more at www.auralarchipelago.com

Endah Jaipongan

It's the last night of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, and special prayers are being blasted from mosque loudspeakers across Indonesia. But earlier in the month, a different kind of joyful noise filled the air every night: Obrog-obrogan. Raucous groups of young men patrol their neighborhoods late at night with percussive, gamelan-inspired music, the din serving to wake up the neighbors for one final chance to eat before dawn starts a day of fasting. It's raw and not necessarily pretty, but importantly it gets kids in touch with traditional music by allowing naughty late-night noisemaking to masquerade as pious community service.

Learn more at the AA post here: http://www.auralarchipelago.com/auralarchipelago/obrog

Obrog-Ogrogan Medley -

Ratapan in Boni, North Central Timor

by Sanggar Tefa Mnasi Naepesu in West Miomafo, North Central Timor, Indonesia.

More info plus pics and video at the AA post: http://www.auralarchipelago.com/auralarchipelago/bidu

Sanggar Tefa Mnasi Naepesu: Silvester Poli (bijol/letes), Yoseph Poli (heo), Mikhael Nali (vocals), Lukas Tefa (Heo), Baltasar Nali (dance), Mergorius Nanis (feko ana), Marselinus Naben (vocals), and Matias Paul (vocals)

Kolo On Le Manu, Manu On Le Kolo (A Bird Is Like a Chicken, A Chicken Is Like A Bird)

Ata Ratu - Untitled Jungga Song

Batti'-batti' music from Selayar Island, South Sulawesi. More to be shared soon!

Turikale - Tersayang

Sumba Gongs

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Frogs and bugs in Solok, West Sumatra, Indonesia.

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