Ali & Charif Megarbane - Tirakat Artist_Yoshio Mamiya "For about a year i

"For about a year i practiced with the SP-404

Nurtured by Ravel and Debussy

a season of fresh greenery and moist water that feels like the true beginning

patches of dainty syncopation

and George Bohanon

Ali & Charif Megarbane - Tirakat Artist_Yoshio Mamiya "For about a year iTirakat brings together Jakarta based trio Ali and Lebanese composer and multi instrumentalist Charif Megarbane in a collaboration shaped by long standing cultural exchange between Indonesia and the Arab world. Alis blend of 1970s Indonesian psychedelic funk, Melayu traditions, disco grooves and Arab melodic forms meets Charifs long running exploration of cross regional sound, rooted in a shared musical vocabulary rather than genre. Rather than