Who is Moongang?
UTUSAN KARAWITAN
Karawitan Messengers
TUKIMAN
(Arnaud Halet)
Keyboards & Guitar
Autodidact and multi-instrumentalist, TUKIMAN played in different progressive rock bands before learning Gamelan music. He performed classic karawitan and wayang kulit (shadow puppet) performances in France and Indonesia and toured in Europe with the Dutch composer Dick Van Der Harst, the “Mahâbhârata” and the "Ensemble Nist-Nah".
By elaborating the structures of the pieces with keyboards ang electric guitar, he is the link between tradition of Karawitan and the neo jazz performed by 3 brilliant sidemen.
JORUDA
(Joris Prigent)
Fender Rhodes
JORUDA is a great jazz improviser revealed in 2022
with his duo "Tago Mago" at the reknown Transmusicales Festival now touring in France and Europe.
In Moongang, his Fender Rhodes, transfigured by cosmic effects, draws the etheric space between notes.
WEKTU TONG
(Simon Prudhomme)
Drums & Vocals
WEKTU TONG is a wonderful and inventive jazz drummer also playing his own compositions with the
“Simon Prudhomme Quartet”.
He enhances the music of the band with primordial spark
and masters the relativity of the time.
PENJAGGA BASS
(Gabriel de Cacqueray-Valmennier)
Bass
PENJAGGA BASS is a young emerging jazz bassist playing in different jazz bands like “Astro Jazz Quartet”.
His groove defines the space and brings a rich and volcanic sound
in Moongang’s music.
