Senyawa

Indonesia

2013.9.20 09:30 – 10:30pm

Venue: B10 Live, North District, OCT-LOFT

Artists:

Wukir Suryadi – Homemade instrument

Rully Shabara -Extended vocal technique

Senyawa is an experimental music duo made up of Rully Shabara (extended vocal technique) and Wukir Suryadi (homemade instrument). The music that they create is a combination of extended vocal technique and a homemade instrument. The instrument was handcrafted by master instrument builder Wukir out of one long piece of bamboo, it is a string instrument with guitar pick-ups—it is amplified and processed through several effects pedals but at times is played as an acoustic instrument, percussion and string instrument.

They are located in the ancient city of Jogjakarta, Central Java, Indonesia and their music is a reflection of their traditional Javanese heritage filtered through a framework of contemporary experimental music practices. Senyawa try to push the boundaries of both traditions in an attempt to mix the music of the east and the west to create a new sound.

As a duo they have been performing and playing together extensively for the last 3 years and have toured Indonesia several times over. In 2011 they were invited to perform internationally for the first time at the Melbourne International Jazz Festival sharing the stage with many great musicians such as Faust, Yoshida Tatsuya, Tony Conrad and Charlemagne Palestine.

Since then they have performed at MONA FOMA in Tasmania, the Adelaide Festival with Korean singer Bae Il Dong, toured as special guests of Australian supergroup Regurgitator, performed at the Noe Festival-Austria along side Japanese guitar master Kazuhisa Uchihashi and Malmo Sommarscen Festival in Sweden. Senyawa was granted a 1 month residency AIR Krems as part of the a city wide Festival in Austria.

Wukir acted as a solo performer finished a residency at STEIM in Amsterdam and Rully Herman was for many years a leading singer of legendary experimental Indonesian band ZOO.

In the past they have collaborated with many notable musicians such as Lucas Abela, Yasuke Akai, Jon Sass, and Kazu Ushihashi. Most recently they completed a film in collaboration with French filmmaker Vincent Moon.

The Drops Trio

France

2013.9.20 08:00 – 09:00pm

Venue: B10 Live, North District, OCT-LOFT

Artists:

Christophe Panzani – Saxophone

Federico Casagrande – Guitar

Gautier Garrigue – Drums

Panzani and Casagrande started working on “The Drops” project at the end of 2008 in Paris. They have been musical partners for a long time and they were willing to put their energies together in an original band. The name of the band is a symbol for the co- existence in each human being of individuality and being part of a single cosmic lux. Both of them being influenced in their jazz language by rock and pop, with this recording they state their own sound.

They found the perfect rhythmic engine for the irst re-cord, “Falling from the sky” , in Ted Poor, who from the very first moment completely fitted the music and completed the idea that Panzani and Casagrande had in mind.

The recording took place in N.Y. in September 2009 and the CD has been released by Hyenas records in November 2010. They already did a tour in France and Italy in November 2010 with Ferenc Nemeth on drums.

At the Arsenal Theatre of Metz they played a double concert with the John Scoield Trio.

Federico Casagrande

Italian guitarist Federico Casagrande, after winning the Montreux Jazz Fes- tival Guitar Competition in 2007, is establishing himself as one of the most original voices in Europe. A Ber- klee School of music graduate, after living in U.s. for several years he moved to Paris in 2007.

He has two records out on his name that have been acclaimed by the cri- tics. He has performed in USA, Canada, Italy, France, Portugal, Denmark, Estland, Latvia, China, Austria, Switzerland and Uk.

Christophe Panzani

French saxophonist Christophe Panzani is one of the most on demand player in Paris. He has toured extensively with Carla Bley Big Band, sharing the stage with Steve Swallow, Billy Drummond, Andy Sheppard. As a sideman and with his own projects he has played in such festival as Montreux, Umbria Jazz, North Sea, Quito, San Sebastian, Jazz a Vienne, Marciac.

Gautier Garrigue

Gautier Garrigue is a young phenomenon of the drums. Only 23 and has already has his own vocabulary and sound. Great musicians like Manuel Rocheman or Eric Barret, already took him in their bands. He’s also playing with the new generation of talented jazz musicians like Yuval Amiha Ensemble(winner of the concours de la defense in 2009), David Enhco Quartet, Flash Pig, Cedric Hanriot trio, Tony Tixie septet…