For his 11th solo recording Dewa Budjana brings his trademark melodic sound imbued of mystic and delicate south-east asian music through even harder edged-progressive flights and raw contemporary rock stirrings. Whether he is moving in the realm of contemporary prog, highly crafted electric jazz or south-east asian traditional music, he never holds any fear that the earth under his feet can turn marshes.Media/Samples
A genuinely excellent, majestic and cohesive instrumental rock album, Opus Contra Naturam is marked primarily by a high level of audacious experimentalism, inconspicuous unpredictable harmonies, flirtatious, but very discreet nuances with noise music, expressively long melodies aspiring to seventies psychedelic rock, and a coherent layer that ties together all of their deeply insurgent and divergent sonorous features, although sometimes they do follow on more ordinary post rock traits, despite a constant presence of heavy elements more reminiscent of traditional rock’n’roll.Read the full review at merchantsofair.com
A genuinely excellent, majestic and cohesive instrumental rock album, Opus Contra Naturam is marked primarily by a high level of audacious experimentalism, inconspicuous unpredictable harmonies, flirtatious, but very discreet nuances with noise music, expressively long melodies aspiring to seventies psychedelic rock, and a coherent layer that ties together all of their deeply insurgent and divergent sonorous features, although sometimes they do follow on more ordinary post rock traits, despite a constant presence of heavy elements more reminiscent of traditional rock’n’roll.Read the full review at merchantsofair.com
High-octane Indonesian progressive ethno-jazz-rock-fusion of the highest caliber.Media/Samples
Aside from his renowned skills on guitar, Zentuary documents Budjana's position as one of the genre's most prolific, accomplished composers and arrangers. The music on this 2-CD set is a magnanimous affair, where its highly skilled participants are given ample space to create and express. The net result is a soaring, synergistic mélange of brilliant, articulate instrumental progressive rock, jazz-rock fusion and world music.
This vibrant, acoustic piano-driven two-CD set features the cream of Britain's younger expat crop, blending with Indonesian musicians to create a passionate, seamless cultural cross-pollination. Pasar Klewar's exhilarating opening title track possesses a microtonal-informed melody drawn unmistakably from Dharmawan's cultural roots; but its modal nature also affords the pianist and his band mates the freedom to explore everything from Metheny-esque landscapes (though Wingfield's heavily overdriven electric guitar provides a completely non-Metheny vibe during his light-speed solo) to a mid-song shift in mood, where Stavi and Sirkis drive Dharmawan's post-Coltrane, Tyner-via-Beirach-through-Corea exploration of spiritual freedom with similar passion and fire.Media/Samples
Daryono takes an impressive vocal/rebab (three-stringed violin) solo before some empathic three-way interplay amongst the core trio leads to a thoroughly musical drum solo reaching deep into the heart of the song before Stavi and Dharmawan re-enter, bringing this twelve-minute epic to a finish with another brilliant piano solo of grand proportions. Cross-pollinated with Wingfield's additional fiery interaction, the music builds to such a climactic peak that, when it suddenly comes to a stop, the band members shouting "Yeah!!" is left to conclude the track, reflecting the energy clearly felt in the studio.
Its overall freedom may come as a surprise to fans of the more easily digestible So Far, So Close...though that's not to suggest Pasar Klewar is lacking in beauty, flat-out lyricism or eminent appeal.
Afterlife is the third album from Summer Effect which contains 10 instrumental postrock, progressive songs. In this album they tried to play tones with fractional composition of different time signatures. Simple and unexpected chord progression to produce a unique dynamic, stomping, dark vibe, like what is being experienced on the track Envoy, Clouded Minds or Don’t Let Me Disappear.Media/Samples
On his debut for MoonJune, listeners are treated to an exotic musical mélange of the highest order. Featuring fusion and progressive rock luminaries, "So Far, So Close" features adventurous compositions, arrangements and performances. Lovers of fusion's "golden era" (mid-'70's through the mid-'80's) will find plenty to keep them enthralled throughout this sizzling session, as Dwiki and company never let off the gas while scaling high-altitude sonic terrain in effortless fashion.
The new album “Nothing But Hope” has interesting, unique and colorful nuance in each of its song. It has a comfortable sound between instrumental, rock, post-rock, alternative, experimental. Ibo says “We maintain the minimalism and dynamic of our musical nuance. It has more acoustic elements combined with an electric guitar harmonies, distortion, keyboard, as well as several other instruments.” These instruments sometimes get deeper as in the song “Nothing’s Ever Good Enough For You” and sometime they follow more energetic approach.Media/Samples