Suarasama

Suarasama is an Indonesian world music ensemble known for their hypnotic fusion of Sumatran and Malay traditions with a panoply of other global styles from Sufi to Middle Eastern. Together since the mid-'90s, they attained more widespread success and critical attention when American label Drag City reissued their album Fajar Di Atas Awan in 2008. The same label also reissued Suarasama's 2013 album, Timeline, a decade later in 2023. The band was formed in 1995 by husband-and-wife duo Irwansyah Harahap and Rithaony Hutajulu, both of whom work as musicologists at University of N...