When Various Cultures In Asia Combined In A Music Work

One Asia, a music project for the collaboration of Asian musicians (Doc. Special)

JAKARTA - The 2023 Asian Games Hangzhou, China officially closed on October 8. At the closing ceremony, the song entitled "Sending All The Love" was performed.

The recording process for Shooting All The Love involves many musicians from different countries in Asia. Meanwhile, Joshua Matulessy alias JFlow from Indonesia acts as a producer.

Through the Lending All The Love, said JFlow, the musicians who are members of the One Asia music project want to show the beautiful harmony of a difference.

'Asia is the most extensive and most diverse continent. There is no continent like this culture, belief, skin tone, sounds and many others. If many conflicts in Asia have been triggered by many differences, music is precisely the difference that produces harmony. A chord can only be formed if there are several different tones that are willing to work together," said JFlow when contacted Thursday, October 19.

JFlow said there was extraordinary cooperation and hope for the great unity of the musicians involved. In the recording process conducted in Ubud, Bali, all musicians help and complement each other.

In the song "Sending All The Love", there is a lot of extraordinary cooperation that is happening, in front and behind the scenes. One example is when Bian Ge, an Erhu (Fellow) player from China, is busy helping Hiroaki Kato (singer from Japan) throughout the recording of the song in Mandarin, "said JFlow.

There is a message of peace and reconciliation that will be conveyed with this composition. Likewise, when Ved Prajapati from India helped Elia Lahoud from Lebanon sing part of the Hindi language. This should be Asia, respecting each other and helping each other," he continued.

Meanwhile, Sending All The Love displays traditional Asian musical instruments such as Oud from Kuwait, Erhu from China, Zybzgy from Kazakhstan, Tabla from India, and Tifa as well as Totobuang from Indonesia.

More than that, the song features outstanding vocals by well-known Asian singers such as Jannine Weigel from Thailand, Hiroaki Kato from Japan, and Eliap Lahoud from Lebanon.