8 July 2004
Toronto Downtown Jazz Festival (by Larry Appelbaum - JazzTimes)
Posted by admin under: Festival; Gigs .
…The next day began with a free afternoon concert by Krakatau, a sextet from western Java that plays a kind of Indonesian jazz-rock fusion. It was interesting to hear the rhythm section kick out the jams, playing funky backbeats with gamelan, wordless vocals, micro-tuned keyboard, kendang (barrel drum), and rebab (2-string bowed fiddle) on top. I especially liked when they started a piece playing a kind of spacey Javanese free jazz, so it was no surprise when the bassist told me the group loves Miles Davis’ In A Silent Way….
Larry Appelbaum - JazzTimes
