@@auralarchipelago also was wondering if you could tell me anything about the music of the talaud islands, Indonesia (your'e the right person to ask), they just seem so remote and unknown it'd be interesting to find out...
@@dingbat7289 check out my post on tagonggong music in Sangihe, Talaud's neighbor - it's one cultural region! Going to that corner of Indo was a dream and it took a 12 hour ferry halfway to the Philippines to do it. In Talaud there's essentially no old-school traditional music left, although there are some great string bands playing a particularly sweet island version of keroncong and Dutch-era "musik bambu" bands that play wonky marching band music on homemade bamboo instruments (a Sangihe specialty that was imported to Sulawesi and huge swaths of E. Indonesia.)
