23 September 2026 – Satori and Gamelan Semara Ratih Turn a Bali Festival Collaboration Into Charitable Single Garuda

A meeting arranged for the inaugural Day Zero Bali festival has become something more permanent with the release of "Garuda", a collaboration between electronic artist Satori and Balinese ensemble Gamelan Semara Ratih. Satori reportedly arrived just 48 hours before the event to work with the musicians on what was initially intended as an opening-ceremony performance. Rather than evaporating into festival folklore afterwards, the experiment was recorded and has now been released through Crosstown Rebels.

The combination brings electronic production into direct contact with Balinese gamelan rather than merely borrowing a gong sample, sticking "world music" on the metadata and heading home. More importantly, the release has a practical purpose. All profits from "Garuda" are being directed toward Yayasan Widya Guna, a Bali school supporting children with autism, Down syndrome, cerebral palsy and other disabilities.

The fundraising is intended to expand the school's music programme with drums and djembes. That gives the project a neat circularity: a piece created with Balinese musicians is helping provide instruments for another generation of children in Bali. Crosstown Rebels says its first Day Zero Bali edition also achieved major reductions in plastic use and waste leakage. Charity singles can occasionally feel as though somebody located the conscience button ten minutes before mastering; this project has a rather more convincing connection between the music, location and destination of the proceeds.