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Final Descent Presents: KUNTARI (ID)

Final Descent Presents: KUNTARI (ID)

City

Copenhagen, Denmark

Type

Concert

Date

Tuesday 23rd of September

Time

19:30 to 23:59

Price

120 dkk + fee

Electronic primal core and Indonesian rhythms

KUNTARI is one of the latest offshoots from Indonesia’s vibrant experimental scene. In their adventurous soundscapes — aptly described by the duo themselves as “primal core” — Indonesian tribal rhythms, animalistic mating calls, and electronic effects merge into a dark, organic sonic wilderness.
Kuntari (ID)
The vibrant Indonesian experimental music scene has long been home to a wealth of intriguing projects, and one of its most recent breakthroughs is KUNTARI. The project is led by Tesla Manaf, who originally came from a jazz background but set aside his guitar in favor of a world of drum machines, noisy effects, and synthesizers. Together with drummer Rio Abror, he crafts captivating, exploratory soundscapes where hypnotic Indonesian tribal rhythms, electronic elements, and primitive vocalizations—often simulated animal mating calls on trumpet—merge into a dark, organic, and untamed sonic wilderness.

KUNTARI themselves describe their genre as primal-core, and indeed the music emerges as a percussive, primal universe layered with brooding ambient textures and driven by an intense, ancient dynamism that unfolds live in a raw, organic, and almost unruly form.

Following extensive tours across Thailand, Taiwan, and Malaysia, KUNTARI made an indelible mark with a 12-day tour of Japan, including a performance at the Fuji & Sun Festival. Most recently, the duo completed a monumental European tour in the spring of 2024: 35 days, 31 shows, 27 cities, and 9 countries, solidifying their reputation far beyond Asia.

KUNTARI’s 2021 album, Last Boy Picked, was named Album of the Year by the Jakarta Post and secured a top spot on Vice’s list, while their latest EP, LAHAR, released this year on the Italian label Artetetra, has been described as “a deeply atmospheric, bone-melting session of ancestral doom sounds.”

KUNTARI has also collaborated with a wide range of genre-defying artists, including Keiji Haino, Fuyuki Yamakawa, Rully Shabara, Arthur Hnatek, Morgue Vanguard, Jonas Engel, Dirk Wachtelaer, Luigi Monteanni, Yuji Ishihara, and Yasushi Yoshida.

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Dansk
KUNTARI er et af de nyeste skud på stammen fra den sitrende indonesiske eksperimentalscene. I deres eksperimenterende soundscapes, som de selv ganske rammende beskriver som primal-core, forenes indonesiske stammerytmer, dyriske parringskald og elektroniske effekter i et mørkt og organisk sonisk vildnis.

Kuntari (ID)

Den sitrende indonesiske scene for eksperimenterende musik har længe budt på et væld af spændende projekter, og et af de seneste nybrud på scenen er KUNTARI. Bag projektet står Tesla Manaf, der oprindeligt var jazzmusiker, men som lagde guitaren på hylden til fordel for en verden af trommemaskiner, støjende effekter og synthesizere. Sammen med trommeslageren Rio Abror skaber han dragende, udforskende lydlandskaber, hvor hypnotiserende indonesiske stammerytmer, elektroniske elementer og primitive vokaliseringer—ofte simulerede parringskald på trompet—fletter sig ind i et mørkt, organisk og vildt sonisk vildnis.

KUNTARI beskriver selv deres genre som primal-core, og musikken fremstår da også som et percussivt, primalt univers, lagdelt med dystre ambient-klange og båret af en intens, urgammel dynamik, der i liveformat udfolder sig råt, organisk og nærmest uregerligt.

Efter omfattende turneer i bl.a. Thailand, Taiwan og Malaysia, plantede KUNTARI et uudsletteligt aftryk med en 12-dages turné i Japan, hvor de bl.a. spillede på Fuji & Sun Festival. Senest har duoen gennemført en monumental Europaturné i foråret 2024: 35 dage, 31 koncerter, 27 byer og 9 lande, hvilket har gjort dem til et navn, man nu også taler om langt uden for Asien.

KUNTARIs album fra 2021, Last Boy Picked, blev kåret som Årets Album af Jakarta Post og indtog en topplacering hos Vice, mens deres seneste EP LAHAR, udgivet i år på italienske Artetetra, er blevet beskrevet som “a deeply atmospheric, bone-melting session of ancestral doom sounds.”

KUNTARI har desuden samarbejdet med en bred vifte af genreoverskridende musikere, herunder Keiji Haino, Fuyuki Yamakawa, Rully Shabara, Arthur Hnatek, Morgue Vanguard, Jonas Engel, Dirk Wachtelaer, Luigi Monteanni, Yuji Ishihara og Yasushi Yoshida.

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