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The New Culture 040210

KunoKini: Keeping Musical Traditions Alive KunoKini is not your everyday drums-guitar-vocals band: The foursome play indigenous instruments from around the country, and some from abroad. Their sound is a fusion of different traditional Indonesian styles with the more modern echoes of Bob Dylan and Bob Marley. The band members have built a strong reputation for themselves at home and internationally as an innovative, yet conservational band, hence the name KunoKini: kuno meaning "traditional" and kini meaning "now" in Indonesian slang. The band wants to change people's perceptions of what music is considered [...]