Episode 2: Metropolutan

07/17/21 • 38 min

We delve into ‘Metropolutan’, a song about the overdevelopment and pollution crisis in the Indonesian city of Jakarta. We also hear about something pretty amazing that happened to the band as a result of this song, which took them to another big city - Los Angeles.

Hosted by: Ewa Wojkowska
Writing and Production: Ewa Wojkowska, Julia Winterflood, Lakota Moira
Production and sound design: Gede Robi
Co-production: Sergina Loncle, Andre Dananjaya
Mixing and Mastering: Cipta Gunawan, Tude Arta Sedana
All Music: Navicula
Podcast Artwork: Krishna Adipurba
Web design: Jay Sims, Vanessa Harsamto, Fleava, Major Tom
Photography: Penny Lane
Show Notes: https://naviculamusic.com/podcast/

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A Soundtrack of Resistance - Episode 2: Metropolutan

Transcript

Episode 2: Metropolutan Transcript

Robi:

I just flew in from Jakarta to Bali. We are in the process of making our sixth album, Salto and we are stuck in really, really bad traffic in Jakarta. We fly from Bali to Jakarta, it took one hour and 45 minutes. And this place that we are going to, is only 30 kilometers from the Jakarta airport. But it takes almost three hours because of this really bad traffic. I'm stuck in the taxi and at the time