The Rest Is Noise and Subbacultcha present: Heith & Tarawangsawelas

The Rest Is Noise and Subbacultcha welcome Heith and Tarawangsawelas new project Duori. Duori is an imaginary word. It combines the ideas “dentro” (inside) and “fuori (outside) invoking a place between. Additionally, locals Mangruv & The Social Lover will perform a body of multi-instrumentalist work with distinct strings, percussion as well as digital timbres.

Heith and Tarawangsawelas met in Bandung in 2017, since then their collaboration has been evolving, both in person and remotely. The result is ‘Duori’ an album of 5th world music in low data mode that travelled inside lost and found portable recorders, on defunct hard drives and expired e-sim cards. Recording and arranging songs over a long period of time and across a vast geographical distance has lent their practice a distinct character. This distance allows the possibility to see things from different perspectives and creates music that hovers both inside the Sundanese Land, and outside of it, both on the European continent and not. This record carries compositions from one side of the globe to the other, catching spirits and energies from different places, societies and rituals.

Their first sketches were influenced while witnessing the Reak ceremonies in Bandung and they were recorded at Tesla Manaf (Kuntari) studio in Bandung. They found inspiration on nights spent at the jaipong clubs, smoking cigarettes and talking about ghosts. The songs then developed while on tours around Europe, playing separately and together. Their song titles are in Indonesian, Italian and English, underling the linguistic shapeshifting of the project, and showing how any linguistic barrier was surpassed by a strong spiritual connection between them as artists. This record is also the story of a friendship, a spiritual bond that goes beyond the differences in their backgrounds and practices. A bond that redefines geographies and creates new psycho-geographies.

This is a collaborative show by The Rest Is Noise and Subbacultcha. Please make a reservation by sending an email to mailinglist@subbacultcha.nl with ‘Heith & Tarawangsawelas’ in the subject line + your name in the email.

Registrations are open until 12PM on weekdays.