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Boi Akih: Storyteller
by Ian Patterson
Storyteller is singer Monica Akihary and acoustic guitarist Niels Brouwer's ninth recording since 1997, and their sixth as Boi Akih. No two Boi Akih albums are the same, though Akihary's Indonesian heritage--she often sings in the endangered Haruku language--and Brouwer's jazz-inflected improvisations are common denominators. Over the years the duo has embraced Indian, African and Asian ...
Storyteller
Label: Bromo
Released: 2020
Track listing: Anin (wind); Au pawahe (perception); Everything is Everywhere; Déjà vu; Dryland; Imaginary Journey; Mahina
(woman); Lost Souls; Japala’a (passion); Design of Stars and Clouds.
Circles in a Square Society
By BOI AKIH
Label: Bromo
Released: 2012
Track listing: Circle 5; Guinnevere; Cold Blue Steel and Sweet Fire; Circle 2; A Merman I Should turn to Be; Drifting; Circle 3; Old Man; Circle Exercise; Circle 4; Redemption Song.
Circle5
Album: Circles in a Square Society
By BOI AKIH
Label: Bromo
Released: 2012
Duration: 05:23
Boi Akih: Circles in a Square Society
by Ian Patterson
The soul of Boi Akih--a duo, sextet, and all configurations in between-- is Monica Akihary's soulful voice and guitarist Niels Brouwer's jazz/world-inflected acoustic guitar. Boi Akih has always experimented; Lagu Lagu (Bromo, 2005)--an exquisite meeting between jazz, blues and Indonesian folk--was sung in the almost extinct Haruku language of Akihary's ancestors. With Indian percussionist Sandip Bhattcharya, ...