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Music
Writing about music, discovering sounds, and tuning in to global frequencies.
Music Writing
Dangdut: The People's Music of Indonesia
A personal journey into Indonesia's most popular genre, a melting pot of global influences that feels eerily familiar, from its rhythmic core to its surprising linguistic links with Sinhala.
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A deep dive into Enka, Japan's ballad tradition that blends Western melodies with Japanese pentatonic scales and themes of longing, loss, and love.
Read Article →City Pop: Tokyo's Neon Dreamscape
Exploring the glossy, sun-drenched sound of 1980s Japanese City Pop, from Tatsuro Yamashita to Mariya Takeuchi, and how it became a global internet phenomenon.
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