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01. Senyawa + Lawrence English/Aviva Endean/Peter Knight/Helen Svoboda/Joe Talia - Mangsa dan Penguasa (The Prey and The Rulers)
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02. Senyawa + Lawrence English/Aviva Endean/Peter Knight/Helen Svoboda/Joe Talia - Perburuan (The Hunt)
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03. Senyawa + Lawrence English/Aviva Endean/Peter Knight/Helen Svoboda/Joe Talia - Perjamuan (The Supper)
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04. Senyawa + Lawrence English/Aviva Endean/Peter Knight/Helen Svoboda/Joe Talia - Memangsa Penguasa (The Prey on Rulers)
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ARTIST
SENYAWA + LAWRENCE ENGLISH/AVIVA ENDEAN/PETER KNIGHT/HELEN SVOBODA/JOE TALIA
TITLE
The Prey and The Ruler
FORMAT
CD
LABEL
ROOM40
CATALOG #
RM 4196CD
RM 4196CD
GENRE
EXPERIMENTAL
RELEASE DATE
10/28/2022
From Lawrence English: "The first time I witnessed
Senyawa
was in the early 2010s. We shared a bill at the MonaFoma festival in Hobart. Some memories hold strongly in your mind and Senyawa's performance that day did just that . . . This project,
The Prey and the Ruler
, finds its root in the unsteady months of mid-2021. As the pandemic plodded onward, and lockdowns were a thing of the everyday here in Australia,
Peter Knight
and I were talking about the situations unfolding in our respective states. We also got to talking about friends in the region and found ourselves pondering the situation just north of us, in Indonesia. It was around this time we thought to reach out to
Rully
and
Wukir
from Senyawa and to hear how things were first hand for them, and their communities. Following that initial conversation, we collectively decided that it was a good moment to commence a project that could cut through the geographic isolation of those long months, and also seek to create some opportunities for a community of instrument builders, friends of Senyawa, who had been significantly hit by the force of the pandemic. A few weeks after this exchange, Wukir sent a series of videos; grabs from his cellphone. The videos were of plastic molds, smoke, spray paint, and sound. In each short clip, instruments were being conceived, tested and forged. These were new instruments coming to life before our eyes, and ears. It was these instruments, and the audio possibilities they suggested, that are at the very heart of this edition. Following several more exchanges we started passing recordings to one another. The process of sharing materials back and forth quickly took on the shape of the works you hear on this album. Once all the contributions were in place, I set about forging them. On the first listen there was a deep sense of intensity to all the performances, like an outpouring or eruption. This was no doubt the result of people being largely locked away, a chance to break the looping around of their own daily routines. These sonic offerings from Senyawa, these instruments with their sounds so unfamiliar and at times unexpected, seemingly unlocked approaches from everyone in surprising ways. It was as if everyone was leaning into the sounds, applying themselves to the particular qualities of these new instruments. What you hear on this edition then is a collective effort at expanded listening..."
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