Heith and Tarawangsawelas: Duori

Some collaborations are created in the same studio. Duori developed across continents.

Since meeting in Bandung in 2017, Italian producer Heith (Daniele Guerrini) and Indonesian duo Tarawangsawelas (Teguh Permana and Wisnu Ridwana) have been working on a common musical language. Ideas migrated between Europe and Indonesia — stored on recorders, old hard drives and long-deactivated eSIM cards, changed by time, distance and repeated transfers. They themselves describe the result as “5th world music in low data mode”: music that asks less about geographical origin than about the paths along which it moves.

The starting point is the soundscapes of West Java. Tarawangsa, Suling, Kacapi and small Gamelan gongs meet Heith's fragile electronics, digital edits and shadowy textures. But Duori does not see this encounter as a fusion of two traditions. The pieces keep moving. They are created between languages, rituals and memories, between nocturnal Jaipong clubs in Bandung, European tours and conversations about ghosts, friendship and the travel of sounds.

The developed music appears familiar and strange at the same time. Melodies appear, disintegrate again, electronic fragments superimpose traditional instruments, field recordings and voices. Sound appears here less as a finished work than as a carrier of relationships — between places, people and the stories they share with each other.

With Duori, Heith and Tarawangsawelas are presenting their album live in Berlin for the first time at the Red Salon.