Ocean Cage [LP]

Kadapat/Nova Ruth/Siko Setyanto - Ocean Cage [LP]

Ocean Cage is a live recording of Tianzhuo Chen and Siko Setyanto's performance Moyang and Seaman -- a forking stage work that evolved from the immersive theatre performance project Ocean Cage, sharing the same title. Directed by Tianzhuo Chen, aka Asiandopeboys, the immersive performance Ocean Cage merges scenography, installation, choreography, and live music into a unified whole. Inspired by the complex whaling traditions in Lamalera, an Indonesian village that preservers ritualized whaling practices and ancestral beliefs, the work unfolds through interconnected trinities. It tells a porous story of unlocking the cage of the ocean: receiving ancestral blessing while becoming entangled with misjudgement, misunderstanding, ecological grief, and temporal displacement, until the sacrifice and life cycles move toward equilibrium. Evolving from this larger narration, Moyang and Seaman shifts into a frontal, meditative dialogues between ancestor and seaman. Inspired by Japanese Noh theatre and deeply rooted in Nusantara traditions, the performance integrates music, dance, and stage art into a mutable and fluid process, continuing to explore ancestral presences, cyclical time, and spiritual transformation. The album features music by KADAPAT and Nova Ruth, interwoven with Siko Setyant(more...) A1. The Soil That Remembers A2. Hysteria of the Elders A3. The Ancestors' Orison A4. Wrath from the Waves A5. Tedun B1. Give Me Your Blood B2. Anakku B3. Joana & Jepo B4. Tolak Bala B5. Liminality