• Pre-Order : Lair “Kiser Kenamaan” 12”

Orange Cliff Records  

Ships out mid February 2025.

180gr red-marbled yellow vinyl with CMYK printed 350gsm embossed card stock single jacket and pulp-coloured 120gsm pulp-coloured paper with spot colour printing. Limited 200 copies run.

LAIR is a music project from Jatiwangi, West Java, which was founded in early 2018. Lair’s music is inspired by classical tarling which is explored in the typical pantura style, ‘raw’ and as is. 

The songs in Kiser Kenamaan are born from daily observations in large places where the personnel live, from Jatiwangi to Cirebon and Indramayu. Each song departs from the experience of living in the north coast region; there are stories of fishermen sailing in the north sea, the chaos of the roads on the north coast route told by intercity drivers, anger from the political situation in the election of village heads, there is also the optimism of the working class. 

“Lair” is taken from the Cirebon classic tarling language which means “born” or “being born”, which is then interpreted to keep giving birth to something; music, thoughts, experiments, narration, and stories. The tile and clay musical instruments played are entirely made from Jatiwangi soil, which is the result of exploration of ‘other possibilities’ of roof tiles, the identity of Jatiwangi since 1905 which has begun to erode and is being pushed by the times. 

From the start, Lair didn’t specify one particular type of music to play, but if it had to be included in a category, Lair chose the term ‘pantura-soul’ for their music, while the music curator of Rrrecfest called Lair as a-kitschy mojo spectacle band. Lair has released their debut album titled “Kiser Kenamaan” that collects the life story of our neighbor that pictured the life of people you can meet at our hometown in Pantura.