Album Borobudur Suite by Sapto Rahardjo-Andre Jaume

Sapto Rahardjo, Indonesian componist who died on 27 February 2009 was one of artists who has influence on creative atmosphere in Jogja city. When I was a student in this city in year 80-ies, we often watched his performance — especially for experimental music. He managed also a musical programme in Geronimo radio station which usually air indie bands.

His big contribution is in digitalizing gamelan instrument. It means that he has contribution in using creatively the gamelan instrument, and in promoting gamelan festival to international forum. His compositions was supposed many, but one of his recorded compisitions is this album Borobudur Suite (Pusat Kebudayaan Prancis, with no date of releasing). In this album, Sapto played gamelan in it’s traditional approach, while Andre Jaume, a multi instrumentalist from French, played a saxophone in jazz approach. The result is a blended gamelan-jazz music in contemporary approach. *

Bjork is the phenomenon in music history. Her music in all her albums are well crafted as experimental-pop-music. Bjork is musician who can blend sounds from the most advanced musical technology into a fresh-superb-futuristic composition.

Her approach in composing music actually is like Philip Glass with his minimalism, or Laurie Anderson with her multimedia-rock-performance, or Indonesian prominent componist Slamet Abdul Sjukur with his minimax approach as well as his fractal philosophy. But Bjork has her unique and personal approach, that is wild imagination on the canvas of pop music. Welcome to Indonesia on 12 February 2008, my Bjork. *