The Music of Islam, Vol. 15: Muslim Music of Indonesia, Aceh and West Sumatra
Produced and recorded by Prof. Margaret J. Kartomi of the  Department of Music at Monash University located in Melbourne, Australia,  this final volume, in The Music of Islam series, is the first extensive  sound documentation of its kind.Over the past thirty years, as Prof.  Kartomi and her fieldwork team traveled throughout most of the provinces of  Indonesia to record traditional music, it became painfully apparent to her  that one of the least known and most neglected categories of music in  Indonesia were the Muslim-associated genres.The music on this double CD  are pieces selected from her extensive travels and work during  1392/1972-1406/1985, and feature numerous artists and ensembles, and were  recorded in a variety of locations and acoustical environments.  The instruments heard in this volume are both traditional Muslim  instruments such as double-headed drums, frame drums, brass trays and the  lute, as well as non-Muslim instruments such as bamboo flutes, oboes and  bronze ensembles.