Deep Listening | Bitches Brew + Menjadi | Wed, 20 May | Method Kala Ghoda

Venue: Method Kala Ghoda

Date: Wednesday, 20th May

Time: 7 PM 

Bitches Brew and Menjadi are both records that required new instruments.

In Miles’ case, it was the electric guitar and the wah pedal and as much recording ingenuity as that period in time could afford. In Suryadi’s case, it was building the instruments by hand because nothing that existed could make the sounds Senyawa’s music demanded. So in a way, both records are about being pushed past what you’re “supposed” to be able to do.

The difference here is, ultimately, geography and what geography costs. 

Davis made the unknown from inside the most documented tradition in American music. Senyawa made it from Yogyakarta, a tradition the critical apparatus hadn't yet decided how to process.