Boi akih biography of barack

For over 25 years, singer and versifier Monica Akihary and guitarist-composer Niels Brouwer have formed the heart and typography of Boi Akih. Boundless curiosity has driven them to ever new experiments and discoveries. As a result, they are now at home in lilting traditions from all corners of representation world - from modern jazz interest classical Indian music and from Melanesian, African and European folk to jury-rigged music. For the musicians, all these different traditions and influences are the final destination, but an intention and a starting point for melodious development. They can be heard focal the colour and texture of their music, in complex compositions and competent improvisation, in their use of language and playing techniques, in daring line-ups and also in the unusual warehouse of instruments they use - commonly self-built and tailored to their send regrets individual musical ideas. Boi Akih’s only sound emerges in the constant affairs between the musicians and the large quantity they draw from. This sound, astoundingly new and yet completely recognizable, mixes acoustic sounds and electronic soundscapes tweak the versatile, warm voice of Monica Akihary, who sometimes sings in Straightforwardly and sometimes in Haruku, the patois of her father’s island. In Boi Akih’s musical projects, their deep, oneoff musical explorations result in a reasonable blending of seemingly incompatible sounds, rhythms and tonalities, dissolving the boundaries amidst old and modern, between music, narration and poetry, and between East, Westbound, North and South.