Peni Candra Rini - Wulansih

Format: LP
Catalogue No.: NWAM185LP
Barcode: 0798304530858
Release Date: 08 Nov 2024
Genre: World 

TRACKLIST:
1.    Rajah
2.    Jenang Gula
3.    Warasih
4.    Esemu
5.    Nanggal Sepisan
6.    Manik Jekantung
7.    Estu

The Indonesian composer and performer, Peni Candra Rini, who specializes in traditional, neotraditional, and experimental music from Java releases her new album Wulansih via New Amsterdam. 

The Indonesian composer and performer whose musical practice encompasses a wide range of traditional and experimental Javanese styles, announces her new album Wulansih via New Amsterdam Records. Kronos Quartet's David Harrington, a frequent collaborator of Rini, recently called her “one of the world's greatest singers”, and on Wulansih she places her voice in conversation with a wide array of experimental and traditional musicians, including Andy McGraw, Lester St. Louis, Shahzad Ismaily, John Priestley, Curt Sydnor, and many others. Produced by Ismaily at New York's Figure 8 Recording, Wulansih creates a world all its own.

The songs on Wulansih exert a deep sense of spiritual calm and act as, in Rini’s words, “a reminder that you are still human, listening to expressions of other humans.” Her music is deeply inspired by the poetry of Rumi and Hafez, Wayang Kulit (Indonesian shadow play), and Serat, the tradition of Sufi thought in Central Javanese court poetry. Rini says that Wulansih aims to “express my inner feelings, my soul, to provide inspiration to younger Indonesian composers, and to introduce Indonesian new compositions to new global audiences.