Jonny Nash, Teguh Permana

𝙒𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙛𝙪𝙡 𝙖𝙢𝙗𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙘𝙡𝙖𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙡 𝙨𝙥𝙞𝙧𝙞𝙩 𝙅𝙤𝙣𝙣𝙮 𝙉𝙖𝙨𝙝 𝙞𝙨 𝙟𝙤𝙞𝙣𝙚𝙙 𝙗𝙮 𝙏𝙚𝙜𝙪𝙝 𝙋𝙚𝙧𝙢𝙖𝙣𝙖, 𝙄𝙣𝙙𝙤𝙣𝙚𝙨𝙞𝙖𝙣 𝙢𝙖𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙩𝙬𝙤-𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙚𝙙 𝙏𝙖𝙧𝙖𝙬𝙖𝙣𝙜𝙨𝙖, 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙖 𝙨𝙤𝙡𝙚𝙢𝙣 𝙢𝙚𝙙𝙞𝙩𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙤𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙝𝙚𝙖𝙫𝙮 𝙨𝙩𝙪𝙛𝙛.

The shadow of recently departed ambient pioneer Harold Budd looms over ‘Poe’, which takes its name from the Sundanese word for ‘Days’, and is proffered by the duo as a “meditation on death and rebirth as reflected in the passing of time and the changing of the seasons.” From what we can hear, Jonny typically mans keys and synths, supplying genteel backdrops for Teguh’s Tarawangsa, a two-stringed instrument used in the sacred music of Sunda, Indonesia, as heard on his work with Tarawangsawelas and their debut album for Rabih Beaini’s Morphine Records in 2017.