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1001 Other Albums

Idjah Hadidjah – Tonggeret (1987, Indonesia)

Our next spotlight is on number 753 on The List, submitted by mbr. This album features recordings made between 1979 and 1986 featuring a popular Sundanese singer, Idjah Hadidjah, backed by Gugum Gumbira‘s orchestra(/dance troupe), the Jugula Group. The songs cover three different genres of regional Sundanese music - kliningan, celempungan, and the rather fascinating jaipongan (aka jaipong).

Want to read more? See the full spotlight on the Fediverse at @1001otheralbums.com or on the blog: 1001otheralbums.com/2025/04/23

Want to skip straight to the music? Here's a Songlink: album.link/i/326586487

Happy listening!

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1001 Other Albums

Idjah Hadidjah – Tonggeret (1987, Indonesia)

Our next spotlight is on number 753 on The List, submitted by mbr.

This album features recordings made between 1979 and 1986 featuring a popular Sundanese singer, Idjah Hadidjah, backed by Gugum Gumbira‘s orchestra(/dance troupe), the Jugula Group. I don’t have the knowledge nor vocabulary to describe this fantastic music, so I’m not going to ruin it by trying. Instead, here’s what musician and writer Dennis Rea has to say about it:[1]

Tongerret showcases the sinuous, melismatic female vocals of Indonesia’s Idjah Hadidjah, who performs songs spanning three genres of regional Sundanese music: the concert music styles kliningan and celempungan, and the dance music jaipongan. The latter style, adapted by renowned composer/choreographer Gugum Gumbira from the earlier, “disreputable” Ketuk Tilu tradition of Sundanese dance music, enjoyed immense popularity throughout Indonesia in the late 1970s and early 1980s, catapulting Idjah Hadidjah to national stardom. Although jaipongan music shares instrumentation (gongs and metallophones) and certain formal similarities with Indonesia’s better-known gamelan (ceremonial percussion orchestra) tradition, its forceful drumming and erotic overtones give it a much more contemporary sound. The kliningan and celempungan selections, by contrast, are imbued with a dreamy, soft-focus quality, heightened by Hadidjah’s richly ornamented vocalizing.

For more information on the jaipongan genre in particular, some kind soul uploaded a great scan of the extensive liner notes for the album – click here if you’re interested!

Note that, in 2003, this album was reissued under the title Indonesia: West Java – Sundanese Jaipong and Other Popular Music, so I’ve included both album covers below.

Happy listening!

  1. Quote from: https://www.dennisrea.com/cd-reviews ↩︎
The cover art is half a colour photo of the artist, an Indonesian woman wearing very colourful eyeshadow, a pink top, and a gold necklace, looking down. The other half is randomly placed prints on a white background - the artist's name is in the top right corner and the album name is near the bottom covering both halves, but then there's also an abstract green bit with a white squiggly line all through it, an image of a bird in a blue box, a white flower in a pink box, a black umbrella, a couple random coloured boxes, a red cross, and the words 'JAIPONG' and 'SUNDA' in different colours printed vertically.
The reissued cover art is largely a black and white photo of someone riding a scooter, wearing a helmet, a field and trees in the background. The new album title is at the top, in a colour-blocked banner with a map of the world in the right corner.
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"Surapati and an Enslaved Female Servant with the Cnoll Family," Jacob Coeman, 1665.

Also known as "Pieter Cnoll, Cornelia van Nijenroode, Their Daughters, and Two Enslaved Servants," this group portrait is Coeman's most famous and really only noted work. A Dutch portraitist, he was born about 1632 and migrated to the Dutch East Indies (aka Indonesia) and painted portraits of the colonists there. He passed away there in 1676.

The Cnolls were wealthy merchants, and intriguingly, Cornelia was half-Japanese, not discernable in this portrait. (Her parents were a Dutch merchant and his Japanese concubine.) The two girls depicted here died young.

The man with the flag is thought to be Untung Surapati (c. 1660-1706), an Indonesian patriot who had been enslaved but escaped and became a leader of rebellions against the Dutch occupiers of his land. His career is fascinating and too much to recount here, except to note that he is now regarded as a national hero of Indonesia. Go look him up.

This painting is now often used in discussions of slavery and colonialism in art; a valuable conversation to have.

From the RIjksmuseum, Amsterdam.

A Baroque-era group portrait. A family group stands on a columned porch, with a view of a harbor, hinting at the source of their wealth. The Cnoll family, wealthy Dutch merchants of Batavia (modern Jakarta) are the two girls, the father, and the mother, dressed in appropriate clothes of the era. In the background are two figures, one a man with long unbound hair, an open jacket, light shirt, and pleated knee breeches, with a flag over his shoulder. He takes a piece of fruit from a basket held by a female servant next to him. The male figure has been identified as Indonesian patriot Surapati, who led multiple rebellions against the Dutch.
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