MUSMUS: Bottlesmoker - Full Performance

MUSMUS is a collaborative programme initiated by NuArt Sculpture Park with Convert Textured, Binaural TV, and Tropis Creative that houses performances by sound artists and musicians inside renowned Indonesian sculptor Nyoman Nuarta’s museum in Bandung.
This programme is part of NuArt Sculpture Park’s efforts for COVID-19 relief for artists and musicians. Support the artist by purchasing their music presented in MUSMUS through The Store Front: bit.ly/32l8VGF
Please note that NuArt Sculpture Park does not take any percentage or other fees as the donations shall go directly to the artist.
Tracklist and timestamp:
“Inhale” - 00:22
“Tortuga” - 08:14
“Talimaa Stated” - 16:24
“Moksa” - 22:10
Bottlesmoker artist statement:
Bottlesmoker is a dance/electronic duo from Bandung, Indonesia. Their work focuses in exploring native rhythms from Indonesia and Southeast Asia, recreating them in an electronic form, mixing the old with the new, analogue and digital, to create their own unique sound, light and visuals. Their musical explorations go from Tribal to Techno, from Pacific Vibes to psychedelic, from Downtempo to Ambient, the sound and visual palette keeps growing and adding more and more flavours to the mix. Bottlesmoker has been doing lots of experiment in the songs making, they adapt the way in which the Indonesian traditional instruments played. They sample recordings of solo rituals to choirs, and produce sounds that are unique, catchy with a hint of pop, and yet dance-able at the same time-all accompanied by amazing visuals, and not forgetting their ever-present, themed costumes in their performances.
Notes from NuArt Sculpture Park:
Lit by daylight seeping through the crevices of NuArt Sculpture Park’s museum alone, Bottlesmoker prepared for their set at MUSMUS. Projected psychedelic visuals from below obscured their presence further on the museum’s corridor/bridge behind its perforated railings. They opened with “Inhale”, responding to the museum’s environment as a whole, all the while being watched over by a painting of the museum’s renowned sculptor, and not of minuscule kind.
Its modulating, warm composition, along with Convert Textured’s dynamic visuals, adapting to every beat and progression, complimented the geometric shapes of the museum. Bottlesmoker followed with “Tortuga”, a ‘scenic’, thumping, ticking composition as if it was signalling something in the horizon, and the percussive, chant-laden “Talimaa Stated”. “Moksa” was chosen as their closing composition, ending their 30-minute performance at MUSMUS.