Free Yourself As A Musician, Kunto Aji Chooses To Explore With Many Music Genres

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JAKARTA - Kunto Aji's appearance at the Indonesian Idol event in 2008 with his jazzy character had brought a new trend. At that time, many cover pop songs were arranged with swing moods.

Although his presence was not the sole factor in the trend that arose at that time, for some time Kunto Aji's name was attached to his jazz image.

Sixth years later, Kunto Aji prefers himself to be referred to as a pop singer. According to him, consistency is needed to be called a jazz singer. And he chose to explore many genres.

"No, if I'm still pop. Because jazz needs consistency too, it has to be in that genre. For a songwriter, I haven't got there yet," said Kunto Aji in Kebayoran Baru, South Jakarta some time ago.

Furthermore, Kunto mentioned the album Introductory Purification of Thoughts released last year as proof. He does not want his creativity to be limited to certain music genres.

Actually, the most recent album, there are a lot of genres. So, I've never divided the genre. Whatever I created was like going out," he said.

"I have a long preference, I am quite a detailed person, but when I spend something I don't want to be limited by other things like genres and all kinds of things. That's what ultimately limits the space for movement," concluded Kunto Aji.