East Kalimantan quartet to perform at Borneo Jazz Festival

0

Meet the YK Band at the Borneo Jazz Festival.

KUCHING: YK Samarinda is an ethnic jazz band from East Kalimantan who started out as a fusion jazz band and eventually made and combined ethnic songs of Kalimantan in jazz rhythm.

They will be performing at the Borneo Jazz Festival 2014 on Saturday, May 10 in Miri.

The YK Band is a quartet from Samarinda whose music is a unique blend of Indonesian Borneo tunes built into western jazz techniques and improvisation. Yusuf and King formed the band in 2003 when they established some projects of ethnic songs.

In 2005, the keyboardist and studio arranger Yin, joined the group followed by Avant, Thrash Metal’s drummer.

In 2013, Avant decided to go for a solo career, but M. Iqbal came to join the YK band. Since then the band has found more groove and has showed impressive performances at the Java Jazz festival in Jakarta and the Mahakam Jazz Fiesta in Samarinda.

Come and see them at the Borneo Jazz Festival 2014 on Saturday, 10 May in Miri, Sarawak and enjoy their South East Asian ethno jazz with a twist.