What If Music...Balinese Gamelan Meets Electro-Jazz with Firetail, Gamelan DanAnda, Mahindra Bali and Ria Soemardjo
Sat, 10 June
|Music Market, Collingwood Yards
Does Balinese gamelan meeting electro-jazz fusion sound like Australia? Firetail, Gamelan DanAnda, Mahindra Bali and Ria Soemardjo have created a series of collaborative works that offer one answer to this question supported by The Boite.
Time & Location
10 June 2023, 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Music Market, Collingwood Yards, Unit 2/35 Johnston St, Collingwood VIC 3066, Australia
About the Event
This collaboration was kicked off by the “What if Music...” forum where creative workers engaged in a conversation with academics, arts administrators and venue owners to discuss the role of culturally diverse music and arts in telling Australian stories, and shaping our national conversation. They asked if perspective taking and creative collaboration can help us tackle issues faced by culturally diverse musicians and complexities of inter-cultural cohesion.
Firetail's music spans from 70’s jazz-fusion, South Indian Carnatic music and their very own brand of jazz-tronica. Formed in 2018 as a collaborative recording project, Firetail has developed an ambient approach to song-writing that blends soul-infused rhythms with evocative melodies and driving percussion. “Truly a musical journey that moves in and out of jazz and neo soul textures to progressive experimental post rock with heavy doses of psychedelia all smacked with a wet sloppy kiss of jazztronica flavors” - Robb Donker Curtis— American…