Music indonésienne

The expression music indonésienne recovers two realities:

  • music suitable for each ethnicities populating the republic of Indonesia,

  • music which the citizens of the aforesaid the republic recognize like pertaining to the whole of the nation, and not with a given group.

This cleavage does not recut that between tradition and modernity, but is crossed by this last. Indeed, if one speaks for example about Javanese music , this expression recovers the traditional music as well, that it is country-woman, nun or of court, that the pop music or other current popular forms.

Moreover, a form suitable for a group can be adopted by other Indonésiens very well, in which case it becomes national. It is the case, for example, of musical genres originating in the Moluques, or of songs of the country batak of the north of Sumatra.

Traditional music

Each group has its musical tradition. The musics of Bali, Java and Sunda in particular acquired an international notoriety.

Popular music

It developed in Indonesia various kinds of popular musics starting from various forms, including traditional, but also foreign.

Thus, the Kroncong was born in a community from descendants from slaves originating in Ceylon and Portuguese language, that the Dutchmen had made come in Batavia at the XVIIIe century.

The gambus is a Malayan popular kind in which one feels the means-Eastern influence.

The Dangdut takes as a starting point the music diffused by Indian films, very popular in Indonesia.

Modern music

Indonesia has also its modern type-setters. The type-setter Slamet Abdel Sjukur lived in Paris in the years 1960. He worked with IRCAM, in particular with the type-setter Henri Dutilleux, of which it remained near. Slamet preferred returns to Indonesia and in particular taught with Surabaya, city in which it is originating. It is difficult to describe its music. An example is Uweg-uweg , an expression Javanese E which wants to say “to stir up the finger in the mouth”. This composition is only containing slappings obtained while making leave its finger the mouth closed by a movement whipped.

Fusion music, progressive music

The musicians indonésiens do not hesitate to use traditional sounds, in first the music of Gamelan, in contemporary compositions. This is true for fusion music and progressive the music.

Groups of progressive rock'n'roll

  • Discus : its influences go include/understand the jazz and the avant-garde, but also the gamelan.
  • Guruh Gipsy : This group was created in the years 1970 by Guruh Soekarnoputra (wire of Soekarno, the first president of Indonesia, and little brother of Megawati Soekarnoputri). It was the first to use the music of gamelan in progressive the rock'n'roll.
  • Makara : This group was made known in the years 1980 with its first success, Laron-Laron .

Jazz

  • Bubi Chen : This pianist was born in 1938 with Surabaya (Java Is), second town of Indonesia. Its group, Indonesian All Stars, was the first group of jazz indonésien to be played on the international scene, in Berlin Jazz Festival of 1967. It had presented a composition, Janger Bali , which used the traditional music of Bali.

Rock'n'roll

  • Ahmad Dhani : Born with the beginning of the year 1970, it leaves the Moslem religious school where he was pupil to found the " group; Dewa". Dhani thinks that its music also attracts the Indonésien young people because of the spiritual message which it carries. One of its most popular songs is Laskar Cinta , " militia of the amour" (allusion to the Laskar Jihad, a radical group Moslem indonésien which cut a disaster reputation for its exactions against the Christian populations of the Moluques to the beginning of the year 2000).

Reggae

  • Imanez : This Balinese singer, dead beginning 2000 of a cancer, was at the origin of one of greatest successes-reggae indonésien: " Anak Pantai" or the beach servant boys. This song tells with its manner the life " sentai" (without stress) and peaceful of the indonésiens living beach: to benefit from tourism, to scrape the guitar, to attend with sleeping and the survey of the sun on the sea.

  • Tony Q : Guitarist and singer with the cavernous voice, Tony Q and the Rastafaras (group created in 1989) was established at the beginning of 2006 with the BB' S (Menteng, Jakarta) where it performe its own compositions and some recoveries (Wednesdays and Fridays about midnight).
Scenes and rounds primarily in Indonesia, Australia and the United States (California). Albums: - 1996 Rambut Gimbal - 1997 Ford Falling In Coils - 2000 Rammed dengan cinta - 2003 Kronologi - 2005 Salam rammed Words in indonésien and some English time. Tony sings especially the love, the friendship, the folklore rasta-indonésien and the cigarettes rigolottes. Some titles not to be missed: " Kata orang jawa" , " Om funky" , " kamu sexy" , " pesta pantai" , " Woman" , " Rambut Gimbal" , " Rammed dengan cinta" …
  • Steven and the Coconut Treez : Tepeng and its band merry rastas truly exploded in 2004 with the exit of their tube-resumption of UB40 " Welcome to my paradize" on the album " the other side" , where also the titles " appear; Bebas merdeka" , " Mendingan" …

The group brings a message which asserts the tolerance and the respect of its next. In 2006 the album " leaves; Easy going" where appear more English titles and leaves a greater place about predilection of the song indonésiennes: love but also some UFO of the song indonésienne such " Horny, Horny, Horny".

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