Description
Taking up the mantle of "primal-core" for their chosen genre descriptor, KUNTARI wield a vicious and energetic sound that appears to be extracted from the molten depths of the earth's core.
setlist:
MUTU BETON/LARYNX (mashed up)
Composer: Tesla Manaf
KUNTARI:
Tesla Manaf: guitar, electronics, hulusi
Rio Abror: percussion
The Indonesian duo of musicians Tesla Manaf and Rio Abror defected from jazz orthodoxy to pursue an otherworldly form of music-making, blending traditional sounds from their homeland with field-recorded soundscapes and pulsing somatic rhythms.
Mounting tension and intensity build and dissolve across its enchanting eight tracks which roar with roto toms, resounding bells, thrumming percussive guitar, and dueling sarons – a single-octave metallophone. Borrowing from tribal Indonesian rhythms resurrected from the sixteenth century, there is a sense of ancient ceremony breathing through KUNTARI's songs.
Editors: Melchior Huurdeman, Anne-Maartje Lemereis
Camera & lighting: Ramon de Boer, Marjolein Hoitinga, Marijn Zurburg
Sound: Rens van Waterschoot, Joachim Grevelink
Producers: Olivier Schuringa, Nanouk Wouters
Director/editing: Reinier Bruijne
Editor in Chief: Sakti Khedoe
This video was recorded at the King’s Ballroom at the gentlemen’s society De Vereeniging(The Hague) during Rewire Festival (2026) for VPRO Vrije Geluiden: music program made by the Dutch public broadcast organization VPRO https://www.facebook.com/vrijegeluiden https://www.instagram.com/vrijegeluiden
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