Music
On Thursday, September 8, 2022, three musicians—Great Lekakul [Thailand], Lawe Samagaha [Indonesia], and Kyojun Tanaka [Japan] performed together in an improvised session at Jakarta’s cultural center, Taman Ismail Marzuki (TIM).
Here, we are releasing the entire video recording for the first time, accompanied by the artists’ introductions to the unique instruments they used for the performance.
Music Jam Session
The piece became a musical illustration of cross-cultural harmony. It can be separated into three parts: the beginning, the soul, and life. The artists followed their own instincts in this experimental performance, their distinctive styles and the sounds of the international instruments blending together to form a captivating soundscape.
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Instruments Intro
Artists
After graduating in music from Mahidol University, Great lectured in Japan at Kanda International Language Studies University, teaching music and religions in South East Asia and Thai music performances. Afterward he studied for his doctorate at SOAS, the University of London in Ethnomusicology. After his graduation, he became a lecturer at SOAS.
With his specialties in Thai and experimental music, he became a member of Korphai, the renowned contemporary Thai music band since 2000. He also co-produced the musical soundtrack of Homrong films on Thai music in 2004. He also got selected as the Thai musicians representative to perform in the Asia Traditional Music Orchestra in Seoul, South Korea. In 2019 he produced and performed his music in Mahajanaka performing arts, highlighting the Buddha’s past life, with Pichet Kluncheun, which was performed in various cities in the UK.
Currently, he is the permanent lecturer in Performing Arts at Chiang Mai University.
Lawe Samagaha studied painting with T Nitya AS in Jakarta. After founding the sound group Sunya (2000), he studied composition with the composer Yasudah in Solo (2001), moved to Bandung to study composition with Dodi Satya EG, and registered as a student at STSI Bandung (graduated 2011, without diploma). He also studied composition with Slamet Abdul Syukur (2004).
As a musician and composer, he has participated in many festivals around the world, including Donaueschinger Musiktage in Germany (2004), Iwp Pakistan (2006), Wdf Malaysia and Taiwan (2008), Kadans Festival in Belgium and the Netherlands (2009), Next Trace Singapore (2015), Music Mistic Fest Turki (2015), and ICF Azerbaijan (2018).
Born in Tokyo in 1983, Kyojun Tanaka is a drummer, percussionist, and composer. He started his musical career since he was a student in Tokyo University of the Arts. Following time with the likes of Naruyoshi Kikuchi’s dCprG, he attained his Ph.D., and is currently a rhythm-addicted university staff who travels the world in search of rhythms that make one want to “embrace.” Kyojun performs with his unit MIDOUTEI and the Latin jazz band Septeto Bunga Tropis. He is also engaged in the research and musical training of hsaing waing at the National University of Arts and Culture in Myanmar.