Voices of the Moluccas
The starting point is the Lagu Lagu repertoire: centuries-old Moluccan chanting, captured in field recordings from 1948, reimagined with today’s energy. In this new lineup, the music gains more space, groove and tension. Multilayered vocals, deep rhythms and open structures make every performance dynamic and unpredictable.
messiah
Many people are familiar with Handel’s Messiah, an oratorio that has been performed and cherished worldwide since the 18th century, particularly for its iconic Hallelujah chorus. especially for its iconic Hallelujah. Yet where this monumental work is typically heard with large choirs and orchestras, BOI AKIH takes a surprisingly different approach.
Some Entangled Review Excerpts
“ the vehicle for her voice is her entire body, not merely her vocal cords. Her pitch was unerring, and her tone was warm. Her vocal command and mastery were reminiscent of the Portuguese singer Maria João or even the Pakistani vocalist Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan.”
“Niels Brouwer, from North Amsterdam, employs a range of techniques spanning diverse styles, including sounds akin to flamenco, West and East African music, and even Portuguese music. He played an eight-string guitar, and his complex fingerpicking was consistently surprising; he utilized varying cadences, shifting between dense passages and lighter moments in terms of note density.“
New Album Entangled
Entangled our new album is a composition that unfolds like a journey through interconnected sound worlds: a single, continuous form in which smaller arcs of tension emerge and then dissolve back into a larger structure. There are moments of song-like clarity, which then give way to more abstract melodic and rhythmic landscapes.
This is music in the tension between composition and improvisation. Spontaneity fuels its urgency and intensity, while an underlying structure provides support. This music draws freely from many musical styles, but never submits to them. It emerges in the moment of creation itself.