Boi Akih - Entangled [CD]

Cat. no: ENJ9876
Format: CD
Barcode: 767522987621
Release Date: 03 Jul 2026
Genre: World Music

Boi Akih, the unique transcontinental duo of Moluccan-Dutch vocalist Monica Akihary and her Dutch partner, guitarist Niels Brouwer, achieve remarkable artistic symbiosis

Their musical vocabulary is richly varied: from fligree detail work with the smallest motifs to wide-ranging melodic arcs with breakneck interval leaps in atonal passages to simple, harmonically clearly defned song structures - sometimes underpinned or overlaid with electro- acoustic samples and effects. And yet the emotion shines through. As Ian Patterson of Allabout Jazz has written theirs is "a tale of ingenuity, loss, resilience and, ultimately, of triumph."

Tracks: Emergence / Acknoledgement of Entanglement / Talato / Embracing Complexity / Up Here / Moti So'oto / Ainele / Closer Is the Forrest / Carlos