Kuntari Mutu Beton Vinyl LP 2025

1. Parai
2. Penarabadan
3. Kerak Terusi
4. Parai II
5. Miamch
6. Paniscus
7. Bessing
8. Mutu Beton

Indonesian duo Kuntari make music that's so distinctive, they had to devise their own genre: primal-core. On 'Mutu Beton' , multi-instrumentalist Tesla Manaf and percussionist Rio Abror dialog with both history and their tropical surroundings in Bandung, West Java's mountainous capital. Using the cornet and hulusi, a free reed instrument made from a bottle gourd and bamboo pipes, Manaf echoes the bellows of local elephants, orangutans and rhinos, grazing Abror's ancestral Indonesian rhythms with potent overdriven riffs and evocative microtonal chimes.