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Dwiki Dharmawan: Hari Ketiga
It began simply enough: Leonardo Pavkovic assembled a group of musicians that included Indonesian pianist
Dwiki Dharmawan
keyboards
Boris Savoldelli
vocalsb.1970
Markus Reuter
guitar, electricb.1972
Asaf Sirkis
drumsb.1969
Teo Macero
producer1925 - 2008
Miles Davis
trumpet1926 - 1991
Yes, things get deep, for those who want to go there. The liner notes alone read like a textbook for a loopy and slightly hallucinogenic course in astrophysics juxtaposed with the detailed breakdown/outline of an impressive space opera.
But how does this bizarre one hundred and fifty-five minutes sound? In a word: "Alien." With a caveat: In a good way.
Conversely, the twenty-eight minute first track on this two disc set, "The Earth," awakens with the serenity of Dharmwan's pensive piano, joined soon by Savodelli's (initially) relatively conventional vocals, before a vocal layering, via overdubs, comes into play, with an orchestral backdrop via (probably) Reuter's guitar workings and live electronics, followed by a masterly piano/drums interlude, before things move out of the solar system, riding the star drive of Reuter's guitar, into an encounter with terrestrial and extraterrestrial languages, from, again vocalist Salvoldelli, who takes his artistry as out there as it can possibly be taken.
The weird factor waxes and wanes throughout this extended journey. Encounters with Western classical music, from Dharmawan's piano, appear and disappear; ambient sounds seep into the mix; free jazz bursts into being, aliens speak the tongues of their home planets (Klingons? Tr'longians?); an odd snippet of what could serve as the germinations of very engaging pop tunes come into play here and there; a warm whiff of exotica drifts by in the starscape, enmeshed in a radioactive soundscape, and a reverberant sacred song from a church on a planet ten thousand light years from home howls and twitters down the spaceship passageway, searching for converts with an extraterrestrial evangelical fervor.
Hari Ketiga is a lot of music. It is by turns enchanting and bewildering, beautiful and weird. It is an effort about as uncommercial as one can get, but it succeeds artistically—for those with open ears, and/or those who can suspend expectations—mightily. A beguiling music, in its own strange way. ">
Track Listing
CD 1: Act I—The Earth/La terra; Act II—The Man/L'uomo; Act 3—The Event Horizon/ l'orizzonte deagli aventi; CD 2: Act IV—The Loneliness of the Universe/La solitudine dell 'universo; Act V—You'll Never Be Alone/Non sarai mai solo; Act VI—The Fact Is Done/Il fatto e finito; Act VII—The Perpetual Motion/Moto perpetuo; Act VIII; The Deal/L 'acordo; Act IX—The Memory of Things/ La memoria delle cose.
Personnel
Additional Instrumentation
Dwiki Dharmawan: acoustic piano, Mini Moog, Fender rhodes, harmonium, occasional vocals, ambient noises; Boris Salvodelli: vocals, vocal effects, live electronics; Markus Reuter: Touch Guitars AU8, live elctronics; Asaf Sirkis: drums, cymbals occasional ambient noises; Alessandro Ducoli: story and lyrics; Jeremiah Pah: voice, sasando (track 3, disc 2); Endi Pah: voice, tambura (track 3, disc 2); Peta Manu Art Group Led By Saul Nalle: voices, sasando, tambura (track 4, disc 2).
Album information
Title: Hari Ketiga | Year Released: 2020 | Record Label: MoonJune Records
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Asaf Sirkis
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