Babadok drums, bamboo strings and unaccompanied dahur singing — plus the resistance songs that became a nation's soundtrack.
Why this channel
What you will learn here
Audio-first content is ideal for the podcast format, and Timorese music is almost entirely undocumented online.
Four short filmed conversations with the people who know this subject first-hand are being produced for this page by Stays of Timor. Each is two to three minutes — honest, local, and recorded in Timor-Leste.
The interviews
Four conversations, four angles
🎥Interview coming soon
Interview 1The instruments and how they're made
Babadok, kakalo, lakadou, bebe — materials, making and sound.
🎥Interview coming soon
Interview 2Dahur and the singing circle
Unaccompanied communal singing, call and response, and improvised verse.
🎥Interview coming soon
Interview 3Songs of the resistance
Music as message, morale and memory during the occupation.
🎥Interview coming soon
Interview 4Old sounds, new music
How Timorese artists today use traditional instruments and languages.
In pictures
Culture & Belief
Sacred house, highlandsCeremony in traditional dressTebe Fatuk circleVillage life, Ataúro
Photos: Ministry of Tourism & Environment, Timor-Leste
Part of the Timor Information Channels — 28 subjects, told by the people who know them. Produced by Stays of Timor.
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