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Far Off Sounds Ep 4 - Kroncong Tugu
5m 55s
Directed by Jacob Hurwitz-Goodman and Nick George • Documentary • 2018 • 6 minutes
We take a two hour taxi ride from South Jakarta to the Tugu area of North Jakarta - an area home to a small enclave of Portuguese descendent Christian Betawi folk - to visit with the band Keroncong Tugu. The group plays a traditional style of the genre, not giving in to popular themes of musical evolution (adding electric instruments, drum machines, etc.) to increase their marketable value.
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