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Monica Akihary
Guitarist en composer Niels Brouwer and vocalist Monica Akihary are the core of Boi Akih, which began in 1996. The duo has developed a distinctive repertoire for the ensemble, one in which cultural roots - musical traditions from the Moluccas, Sunda and Bali, Dutch (European) jazz and improvised music, classical Indian music and traditional African music - form the basis for composition, free improvisation and text. Boi Akih has grown into an ensemble with a striking sound and its very own unmistakable musical idiom. The search for its ‘own’ roots has led to Boi Akih’s unique sound. Sound exploration, compositional forms, improvisation and performance have been essential facets from the very beginning
Joni Mitchell Jazzed: Ten Essential Mitchell Covers
by Ian Patterson
Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell's spectacular transition from acoustic folk singer in the '60s through folk-rock 'n' roller in the early '70s to leader of jazz-inflected bands in the mid-'70s was a gradual process. This musical transformation can be traced over the course of five albums for Asylum, beginning with the multi-million seller and Grammy-winner Court and ...
Boi Akih: From And To Infinity
by Ian Patterson
Singer Monica Akihary and guitarist Niels Brouwer, the beating heart of Boi Akih, have been finding the common ground in Indonesian, Indian, African and European music traditions since the late 1990s. Indonesia in particular is a constant source of inspiration--with Akihary often singing in her father's endangered Haraku language--and it proves so once again on their ...
From And To Infinity
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2023
Track listing: The Sea (Part i); The Sea (Part ii); Dryland (Part i); Dryland (Part ii); The City (Part i ); The City (Part ii); Joy (Part i);
Joy (Part ii).
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.
