SERAMBI JAZZ PRESENTS: AKORDEON & BEATBOP : Indra Aziz Project with Riza Arshad at GoetheHaus Jakarta
Goethe’s Serambi Jazz is back again. Coming soon this June 11, 2009, another very interesting event with two high skilled group will be held at GoetheHaus Jakarta: AKORDEON and BEATBOP : Indra Aziz Project with Riza Arshad. This is a FREE event! Imagine having two high skilled with loads of talents for free. This is something you don’t want to miss.
SERAMBI JAZZ PRESENTS: AKORDEON & BEATBOP : Indra Aziz Project with Riza Arshad
Goethe-Institut Jakarta
Jalan Sam Ratulangi No. 9-15
Menteng, Jakarta Pusat, 10350
Date: June 11, 2009 (Thursday)
Time: 19:30 WIB – Onwards
FREE OF CHARGE!
AKORDEON
Bintang Indrianto (fretless bass)
Kiki Dunung (kendang)
Taufan Siswadi (drums)
Imam Garmansyah (accordion)
A breakthrough..
Giving a breath of new sound, this might be the main reason from this 4-person “studio project”. Will they make it?
One thing for sure, by pushing the akordeon (in English: accordion) to the front is already an interesting effort to create the curiousity effect. Imagine what would be the result of pushing the accordion to the front, with interesting collaboration between some instruments like fretless bass, drums and also ..kendang (the double headed traditional drums) !
Just as we all know, accordion is a reed organ in a portable form. According to the history, accordeon was found in the beginning of 19th century. Today, accordion is used to many kinds of music. From classical to folk, world music and so on. Many people believe that accordion is a “romantic” instrument.
Now then, what Akordeon as a band is all about? This is a collaboration project consists of Bintang Indrianto, Kiki Dunung, Taufan Siswadi and the youngest player in the group, the accordion player, Imam Garmansyah. Fusing and mixing the musics, based on the “mixed marriage” between various music instruments, that’s what this “new but old” group offers. And as the result, they do create new themes and colors of music. At least that’s the essence we can grab from their independent album with the same title, Akordeon. (Read our review of AKORDEON)
If one starts to get fed up with the same standard sound from jazz recordings and performers we used to hear lately, Akordeon is really need to be checked, learned and understood. Moving from the phase of introduction, one should start to understand their music, and hopefully later could love their unique compositions.
One note has to be underlined though, eventhough accordion is pushed to the front, that doesn’t mean would dominate the whole compositions. Accordion, together with any other instruments that are played in this group actually get quite the same portion. All sounds combined proportionally.
Beside that, they have invited singers too in their debut album. From Sherly’O, Cecilia Ventura, Steve Wilson, Damaris Moreles to Joe Parthenos. As a conclusion, the music of Akordeon is not the kind of music that would be difficult to listen. Let’s prove it together!
BEATBOP : Indra Aziz Project with Riza Arshad
Riza Arshad (fender rhodes)
Indra Aziz (alto sax, voices, beatbox)
Indra Perkasa (double bass)
Billy Tamnge aka BdaBX (human beatbox, voices)
There has been some collaboration among them in the past, but this is the very first time all of them gathered together in one group. What this new formed group offers is presenting original jazz composition with the beats and rhythms using human’s mouth. It could sound a bit like semi-electronica, because the sounds produced from human beatbox would sound like MIDI. The role of Riza Arshad in this group is big. One of the reason is because the idea was first come from him. After developing the idea, this group was established as the result. Almost all the compositions originally comes from Indra Aziz, also from Riza Arshad. Some compositions that will be presented includes Indra Aziz composition from 2006 Odd Journey and new composition called Miguel Vernon.
This concept isn’t new, because some of the international group has done it. Name some like Lilo Rantala Trio with Felix Zenger as the beatboxer. Then Mouth Organ, the duet between hammond organ and beatboxer, and so on. But this is the first time to bring it into the tradition of original jazz composition with full of improvisation.
Here’s a little profile of Riza Arshad and Indra Aziz.
Indra Aziz
Indra Aziz is a singer, saxophonist and composer from Jakarta, Indonesia. His first experience in music came from his mother, a singer, drawing artist, writer ase traditional dancer, Rosita Sanusi.
Graduated from Art Faculty of Trisakti University, Jakarta, he continued to learn alto saxophone at Farabi, then tenor saxophone and vocal in Music Daya Institute. Indra started his professional career as a singer/saxophonist in 2001 with his quintet. From the start, Indra has begun to play with senior jazz musicians such as Deviana Daudsjah, Dwiki Dharmawan, Indra Lesmana, Ruth Sahanaya, Idang Rasjidi, Aksan Sjuman, Bob Tutupoli, Ireng Maulana and Margie Segers.
Indra has performed in many jazz festivals and concert, such as Java Jazz Festival 2005-2008, JakJazz Festival 2006 an Pasar Jazz. Indra has also appeared with groups in various genres like Brothers of Revolution (Indra Lesmana, Eq Puradiredja, Glenn Fredly and Mike Mohede), Jamie Aditya, Maliq & d’Essentials, SOVA, Agrikulture, Tomorrow People Ensemble, Daya Swara & Daya Choir, Opustr3 Big Band, Pitoelas Big Band and Sore Ze Band.
As a composer, Indra has written many compositions both vocal and instrumental that was recorded in concert format with Opustr3 for performers including Shelomita (Payung Fantasi, Jazz Masa Kini), Dian Pisesha (Tak Ingin Sendiri, Kerinduan), and Ruth Sahanaya in her album “Joyful Christmas” (2006).
On March 2006, Indra wrote a single “Jakarta City Blues”, an acapella arrangement that was recorded in multitrack and improvised about Jakarta. This record got nominated in AMI Awards 2006 as “Best Production for Jazz”.
On November 2008, Indra received “Jazz Rising Star” award from Jazz Goes to Campus Awards committee. Indra Aziz is a vocal professor at Music Conservatorium Pelita Harapan University. and at Al-Falah school, from grade 7 to 12, among them for jobless students.
Riza Arshad
Riza Learned classical piano basic at 6 years old from Rumende. He learned angklung (Indonesian traditional instrument that’s made from bamboo) from Obby Wiramihardja and jazz from Aries Dauna, Bambang Nugroho, Jack Lesmana and Indra Lesmana. He started playing music professionally at the age of 15, when he joined Rara Ragadi, a progressive rock group in 1978 that was formed by Iwan “Luke” Arsyad, Raidy Noor and Cendy Luntungan.
Riza was joined and played together with Twilite Orchestra/David Foster, Trisutji Kamal Ensemble, Jack Lesmana Combo, Jazz Riders, Iwan Fals, Indra Lesmana Reborn/Lenny Castro and Toninho Horta. He formed simakDialog, a jazz cross ethnic progressive since 1993 with guitarist Tohpati Ario.
SimakDialog has released 5 albums (“Lukisan”, “Baur”, “Trance/Mission”, “Patahan” , and the brand new “Demi Masa”). Two of the last albums were released under MoonJune Records, New York. The third album “Trance/Mission” won AMI Awards 2003 as the best album and the best producer in alternative jazz category.
Outside simakDialog, Riza formed a trio with drummer/orchestrator Aksan Sjuman and bassist Yance Manusama. This group called Riza Trioscapes that has released two albums. Also a quartet with pianist Sri Hanuraga, bassist Indrawan Tjhin and drummer Sandy Winarta. This quartet named W/H/A/T that is going to release their debut album soon.
Together with his elder brother, the late Iwan “Luke” Arsyad, Riza established Ragadi Music in Modesto, US in 1989. So far Ragadi Music has produced many artists and albums including Kimera (Sony Latina), Joanna, Blast Bandits (ska indie), Riza Borneo, Berkeley Cool, Andy Padlo (wrote songs for Gregg Allman/Allman Brothers).
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