Senyawa

From Java, Indonesia, Senyawa builds a bridge between traditional Javanese music and contemporary experimental music. Vocalist Rully Shabara has a voice that ranges from singing to wailing to ritual growling beyond this earth. Instrumentalist Wukir Suryadi, who plays a homemade string instrument made of a bamboo trunk, metal and bamboo strings, creates the melodic, and sometimes fierce, almost volcaniclike sound that blends in seamlessly with Shabaras vocal. Filmed by Jonas Bang Recorded at Jazzhouse in