Kuntari

Describing their sound as "primal-core", producer and multi-instrumentalist Tesla Manaf and percussionist Rio Abror create music that's a conversation between KUNTARI and the mountainous, tropical backdrop of Bandung, the capital of West Java. And the music's not like anything else you might have come across; playing cornet and hulusi, an instrument made from a bottle gourd and bamboo pipes, Manaf mimics the Indonesian fauna, interspersing the animalistic calls with overdriven prepared guitar riffs that bounce off Abror's ancestral rhythms. Not folk music exactly, it's a unique cocktail of sludge metal, 20th century minimalism, jazz and traditional sounds that's best experienced live.