Salihara Jazz Buzz 2022 Brings Next Sound Theme, Presents New Colors For Jazz Music

Jazz Buzz 2022 (Photo: ANTARA)

JAKARTA - Salihara Jazz Buzz is back in 2022 and marks a decade of the flagship program of Komunitas Salihara Arts Center which has been held since 2012. The Music Festival which features beautiful performers every year is now preparing to present a new color of jazz music in the country to be able to open the public's insight about this music genre.

For example, there are many new varieties such as free jazz, contemporary jazz, avant-garde jazz and other jazz genres.

“This decade is certainly not as easy as we hoped. Choosing the best musicians so that the audience can attend will certainly require a long discussion, especially how to continue to offer this novelty," said Salihara Community Music Curator Tony Prabowo as quoted by ANTARA, Wednesday, May 11.

However, this challenge has become a driving force for Komunitas Salihara to continue working on new themes.

This year, with the theme "Next Sound", Salihara Jazz Buzz puts forward adaptation and creativity and offers newness about the current situation in the form of the reality of a pandemic and the reality of jazz music which can always be fused into evolving genres.

Salihara Jazz Buzz is performing for the second time online since the COVID-19 pandemic hit Indonesia in 2020.

The series of concerts which will be broadcast through the Salihara Arts Center Community Youtube channel will feature four Indonesian jazz musicians, namely Aryo Adhianto, Fascinating Rhythm, Sandrums and Agam Hamzah Project.

Through the performances of the four musicians and groups, Salihara Jazz Buzz 2022 is expected to present a novelty and can bring the spirit of jazz buzz about “cross-border” music that is able to enrich jazz music.

Meanwhile, Aryo Adhianto is a composer and producer of electronic music. Interested in jazz and piano since childhood, he discovered his love for electronic music when he was in college. In the course of his career he was involved in several music clinics initiated by the Sacred Bridge Foundation such as "Rhythm Salad: A Bowl of Roots Music" (2008), "Echoes: the 21st Century Global Music Education" (2009) and "INTRASIA: the Cross-School. cultural Performing Arts Clinic" (2013).

Then for Fascinating Rhythm is a contemporary jazz band based in Jakarta. This band carries the idea of playing various types of rhythms from around the world such as samba, choro, bikutsi, cuban and others. These various types of rhythmic are wrapped with interesting jazz touches and also variations of "call and response" on each solo instrument. The band consists of Timoti Hutagalung (drums), Noah Revevalin (piano), Jonathan Prawira (clarinet), Hafiz Aga (bass), and Yosua Sondakh (guitar).

There is also Sandy Winarta has an experimental project called Sandrums. Sandrums itself is an exploration of the broad spectrum of electronic sound and is used in musical improvisation rooted in jazz in harmony and rhythm. In this show, Sandy invited Sri Hanuraga as his duet partner to present a special rhythm composition that can be seen at Salihara Jazz Buzz 2022.

Lastly, Agam Hamzah Project is a new music group from Agam Hamzah, previously known as the Ligro Trio music group. Agam Hamzah is a musician who has consistently created musical works with a fusion concept since the 90s. The concept of fusion is a genre of music in which musical idioms such as jazz, rock, contemporary classical and ethnic music are combined into one unified work. In this Agam Hamzah Project, he has an instrument format in the form of a Quintet, consisting of bass, drums, guitar, keyboard and violin.

Through the Salihara Arts YouTube channel, you can watch the four performers on May 13, May 15, May 20, and May 22 at 19.00 WIB.