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  Released in partnership with Tenzenmen records for the Thailand special edition version with unique packaging and remixes. Remixes available immediatel with pre-order. Album released 02/21/2021
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  Indonesia's intense, vital experimental duo Senyawa release their newest album Alkisah via a decentralised worldwide co-operative effort. An explosive, exploratory trip through Senyawa’s unique sonics, Alkisah represents these masters of unpredictable experimental music pushing their own boundaries.
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  Instrumentalist Wukir Suryadi performs on his homemade instruments, created from bamboo and other natural materials, offering a rarely explored link between the ancient, traditional, mystical music of South-East Asia and the contemporary avant-garde.
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  Vocalist Rully Shabara mines the human voice for its strangest and most challenging sounds, chanting, yowling and throat-singing like a chorus of demons in one song and an arcane, chattering machine in the next.
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  Rhythms skitter and crash around like gamelan, punctuated with trashcan drums or bulging plumbing percussion, while doomier moments (such as “Istana”) crush with seething waves of distortion and Rully’s mesmeric growls (a mix of Javanese, Bahasa, and other Indonesian languages). The record lurches from urgency to apocalypse, a twisting and twining story with animist mythology and hellish atmospherics.
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  ALKISAH can be translated as ONCE UPON A TIME.
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  This is that time.
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  SENYAWA
  Wukir Suryadi: Custom Instruments
  Rully Shabara: Lyrics, Vocals
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  Recorded and Mixed by Iwan Karak
  At Eloprogo, September 2020
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  Soundscape of Eloprogo recorded by tesaran
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  Artworks by Sopeng
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  Minang proverbs on “Kabau” compiled by Taufik Adam
  
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  Remix information for Thailand edition:
  
  KIAMAT Kijjaz Remix
  soundcloud: soundcloud.com/kijjaz
  email: kijjaz@gmail.com
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  ALKISAH I Mahakit Mahaniranon Remix
  IG : mahakit.m
  E-Mail : mahakit.mahaniranon@gmail.com
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  MENUJU MUARA Daydream Devices Remix
  IG: daydreamdevices
  https://unfamiliarenvironments.bandcamp.com/
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  KIAMAT Keith Hillebrandt Remix
  https://keithhillebrandt.bandcamp.com
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  ISTANA Tommy Hanson Tayat Arsoon Remix
  Instagram: tmmtommy
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  Tenzenmen Remix
  https://tenzenmen.bandcamp.com ... more
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• ALKISAH Limited Edition CD

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  Limited edition of 100 with handcrafted unique dimensional packaging. The artwork is obscured but pressing on the packaging will reveal the artwork beneath. No printing was used for the booklet and sleeve - all artwork is engraved into the material. The paper is black 3-ply where the center ply is white and is revealed by the engraving. As such, it has a slightly topographic and tactile appearance.
  
  Includes unlimited streaming of ALKISAH via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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  edition of 100 

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