Wukir Suryadi

Tip! Born in 1977, in Malang, East Java, Wukir Suryadi began playing music for theatre at the age of 12 with the Idiot Theater Studio, and later with the Rendra Theater Workshop. In his solo work, and as a member of Senyawa, Error Scream, Bendera Hitam Setengah, Potro Joyo and other groups, Wukir breaks the boundaries of traditional music, death metal and avant-garde performance. On this new release, “Cycle and Prayer,” recorded in 2023, he expands the edges of his unique artistic world further,…

Half of Indonesia's Senyawa (the band's sole instrumentalist, Wukir Suryadi) with a solo release for Morphine. Engineered by Rabih Beaini. Art direction by The Tank Boys.The unique tone and twang of Wukir Suryadi’s homemade bambuwukir - a hollow tube of bamboo with strings and pick ups played like a guitar/sitar - recorded at Weltkulturen Museum, Frankfurt, by Philip Albus in October 2015, is twisted and serrated into a pair of gripping tracks, following an unsteady, zig-zagging and buzzing …