DeconSEAS Hanoi Community Radio

DeconSEAS (Deconstructing South East Asian Sounds) is a new project broadcasting on Hanoi Community Radio, with the aim to highlight the unique soundscapes of Southeast Asia, focusing on artists who play traditional folk music, or blend it with electronic and experimental music.  The show prioritizes featuring musicians at the forefront of their craft in SEA, especially female and queer artists from SEA diaspora. 

Track List:
Nunas Taksu - Rosemainy
Fireflies - Lynn Nandar Htoo
Whisper - Zaliva-D
Orang Piaman - Rani Jambak
GODLY TORMENT - LnHD
Internal Mange - INFRA24 
Palpate - Isyraf
PROTO - rEmPiT g0dDe$$
Nói Thì Nói - Anh Phi
Deceptive Escape - BOUHINGA
Bottom Dweller Antillion (w Xiao Quan) - Sanjonas
Chase The Horizon - Mervin Wong
2 - Morgan Sully & Anjeline de Dios
Serene - Lynn Nandar Htoo
Lichen - The Observatory and Koichi Shimizu
Hayi Shava - LALIT
Ngày Mới - Tiny Giant
Wayang - wanton witch
Bloronk - KADAPAT
Night - Lynn Nandar Htoo

DeconSEAS 001 w/ howrøng

For this edition of DeconSEAS, we're excited to share our first guest for the radio: Rosemainy Buang. Rosemainy is a gamelan musician, educator, composer, and sound artist from Singapore. With a decade of training in gamelan, she is dedicated to expanding her creative  horizons through collaborative projects with other artists from diverse disciplines.  Approaching art-making with a multidisciplinary and experimental attitude, she attempts to question, build upon and expand the limits of traditional soundscapes, philosophies and aesthetics. 

Sembah Sanak: Worship your roots. 
We live in a chaotic world, where pain flows through us and anxiety fills our souls. If we 
don’t seek healing, we may find ourselves trapped in a lasting darkness. 
Sembah Sanak is a track inviting everyone to embark on a journey of emotional 
confrontation and restoration. This track serves as a deeply personal healing ritual, where 
the fusion of musical elements becomes an offering of solace. Traditional texts celebrating protection and love are woven into intricate rhythms and melodies, creating a sacred soundscape.  

Listening to this music in your own space, me, and intention, I hope you participate in a 
profound ritual of self-discovery and balance. 

DeconSEAS 002 w/ Rosemainy

Anjeline de Dios is a vocal/sound artist, researcher, and meditation teacher from Manila, Philippines. Through her practice she creates and studies emergent spaces of sound, healing, and cultural change.

Her work draws from various sources of inspiration. From her family and home culture, she developed a lifelong fascination with singing as an activity that immerses individuals within themselves while simultaneously connecting them with others. As a humanities scholar with a background in philosophy, cultural geography, and inter-Asian cultural studies, she is devoted to exploring the self in relation to others, particularly through systemic and lived aspects of spatial experience. The collaborative projects she sustains with local and transnational communities in sound art and wellness further support her purpose of creating generative spaces for listening. Additionally, her contemplative practice strengthens her personal aspiration to help others listen more deeply to life within and beyond themselves.



From Anjeline:
Iba magmahal ang Filipina, a friend teasingly reminded me. Filipinas love differently. The tracks in this playlist add up to a sonic reflection on the difference of Filipina love in dialogic encounters with an “other”—our partners, friends, muses, instruments, traditions, and environments. Through our sound, we support, complement, and remember. We also differ, in ways heard and unheard. We counterpoint. We speak otherwise. Please enjoy this selection of experimental reveries by myself and other Filipina artists, as a celebration of loving and hearing differently.



Artist - Track
1        Anjeline de Dios     In Return
2        Pantayo        Dreams
3        LTAA        Melt to the Street
4        Tusa Montes, Abby Clutario, and Karmi Santiago        Sinulog a Bagu
5        Wong Kit Yi        Clouds of Sandalwood (feat. Anjeline de Dios)
6        Joee Mejias        SEARCHING FOR BELL TREE (Nanjing)
7        Jaya Jacobo        What About Love
8        t33g33        Gloria Matri (Oneira wa Noira)
9        Anjeline de Dios and ASARA        Angon
10        Bunny Cadag        Awit ng Buwan
11        Hubert Gromny and Anjeline de Dios        Lunar One
12        Pauline Vicencio-Despi        Composite by the Numbers_4PM
13        Morgan Sully and Anjeline de Dios        Codex

DeconSEAS 003 w/ Anjeline de Dios

BIO
Rani Jambak, a distinguished composer, producer, field recordist, instrument designer, and vocalist of Minangkabau descent from Medan, actively engages in the exploration of electronic music and soundscapes derived from diverse locations across Indonesia. Her body of work frequently addresses themes related to nature, socio-cultural dynamics, and the interrelationship between humans and their ancestral heritage. In recognition of her innovative contributions to sound, music, and technology, Jambak was honored with The Oram Awards in 2022. 

About this mixtape:
Rani: Hi! I love experimenting in field recording with electronic music. My music usually talks about cultural identity, human relations with nature and their ancestry's thinking. Along this journey, I feel like I learned and reflect so much about life. That's what drives me to keep making music.