AMAZEUM by Purnamasari
Lisa Graciano - Guitars and vocals
Keenan Pepper and Paul Miller - Gamelan*
Dillon Ingram - Electric guitar
Steve Lew - Bass guitar
Julia Martin - Drums
* Thanks to Monali Varaiya for gamelan on Humans from Outer Space
and Carla Fabrizio for gamelan on Greedy Modern World
Recorded by Jonah Strauss at Survivor Sound, Oakland CA
Additional tracks recorded at DiggyDog Studios, Oakland CA
Wake Up recorded live at University of California, Davis, 11/4/22
Musicians: Lisa Graciano, Paul Miller, Keenan Pepper, Dillon Ingram, Steve Lew, Megan Hewitt, Julia Martin and Ion Nami Murata
All tracks mixed and mastered by Drew Rydberg
Songs by Lisa Graciano, with help from Paul Miller and Purnamasari
Cover art by Lisa Graciano, photographed by The LightRoom
Tracklist
| 1. | Humans from Outer Space | 3:36 |
| 2. | Follow Funkenstein | 3:26 |
| 3. | Sui Genderis | 3:35 |
| 4. | Infinite Realities | 3:37 |
| 5. | Greedy Modern World | 2:05 |
| 6. | Antidote | 4:41 |
| 7. | Amazeum | 3:12 |
| 8. | Wake Up (Live) | 3:50 |
Credits
Amazeum tells the story of an elderly woman and her great-great-granddaughter living on an artificial island orbiting the sun. They exist as refugees, waiting for decades to inhabit a new planet. Through songs and stories, Amazeum examines the displacement of people amidst the collapse of global systems on Earth, and human identity in an imagined community of people born in outer space. The piece contemplates what it means to be human in an artificial world far from home, and how our current modern life of overconsumption could affect future generations as our planet reaches its maximum capacity to sustain its inhabitants.
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License
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The band integrates Indonesian gamelan instruments and ideas into guitar-based songs. Band member Lisa arrived in the Bay Area from the Amsterdam live music scene, and got involved with American Gamelan musicians. One of them is Paul, and together they created this band, which now includes musicians Steve, Dillon, Nami, Megan, Julia, and Keenan.