THE JAVA SPRING
THE JAVA SPRING is a personal solo project, music fantasy created by the international spanish jazz-world musician Rodrigo Parejo, inspired on the sounds, culture and life of the multicultural country Indonesia and its thousand islands.
THE JAVA SPRING is broadly acquainted with the sounds of electronic ambient music, traditional indonesian music, 70´s jazz rock, film music, spiritual and meditative, world music, and other creative improvised music.
THE JAVA SPRING has the interest to bring the listener into some sensations of an imaginary spring in Java, with the intention to inspire and awake the senses and perceptions through the beautiful Art of Listening: sounds of birds, nature, ethnic flutes, voices, gongs, bells, sutile melodies, electronics, etc.
THE JAVA SPRING invites occasionally some reknowned asian artists in the fields of Music, Dance and Performing Arts (Jazz, Modern, World, Contemporary and Traditional).
VIDEOS
Live at Solo International Performing Arts (Surakarta-Java, Indonesia) 2016 with indonesian vocalist-composer Peni Candrarini
"Goodbye song" (voice, keys, samples)
(pic: Dion Momongan in Central Java)
(pic: Dion Momongan in Central Java)
Time to pray!! live sound of an alto flute meditation over a loop from a cambodian gong!
Picture of Borobudur temple in Central Java. (pic: Rodrigo Parejo)
Picture of Borobudur temple in Central Java. (pic: Rodrigo Parejo)
Here the flute, electronics and voice bring us a blossoming fantasious feeling of a spring in Java.
(pic; Michael Hadi in Central Java)
(pic; Michael Hadi in Central Java)
Indian tablas, cambodian reed instrument (Sralay), keys and voice bring us a feeling of world-music, a dream of visiting India
(pic: Michael Hadi in Central Java)
(pic: Michael Hadi in Central Java)
Very low deep flute sounds which enter us inside the big ocean. This picture is from Klewer beach in Central Java. Here the Java Sea, a very wild one!!
(pic: Rodrigo Parejo)
(pic: Rodrigo Parejo)
Here the flutes bring us as well into the ocean, but this time into the surface, a bit lighter feeling than the other piece "Down the ocean"
(pic: Rodrigo Parejo)
(pic: Rodrigo Parejo)
BIOGRAPHY
Rodrigo Parejo (1981), spanish jazz musician, improviser, composer and educator based between The Netherlands and South East Asia, has been active in some of the different music scenes of Improvised Experimental Creative Music, Jazz, Dance and World-music in different countries in Europe and Asia during the last 15 years. After graduating with honors and completed succesfully a Master Degree in Jazz Performance at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague (The Netherlands), kept developing his musicality studying, traveling and living periodically in places as: New York (School for Improvisation), Oslo (CIM, Norway), Banff Center of Arts (Canada), Cambodia, Indonesia (ISI), Malaysia,...studying with music masters as: John Ruocco, Dave Douglas, Ralph Alessi, Bobby Martínez, Tony Malaby, Joshua Redman, Ben Street,...
As a freelance musician, he has performed a broad range of music styles, from solo performances to jazz orchestras or free jazz/contemporary ensembles including classical, jazz, rock, noise music, music for dance, film music,...with excellent musicians, projects and ensembles as: Phil Woods, Norma Winstone, London Improvisers Orchestra, Saray Muñoz, Lázara López Cachao, Rianto, Mao Arata, Maya Dance Theater, Peni Candrarini, Hank Bennink, The Hague Ethospheric Orchestra, Michal Moore, John Ruocco, Bobby Martínez, Lucky Losada, Antonio Sánchez, Saúl Quirós, Israel Cerreduela, Nicole Mitchell, Yuri Honing, Eric Vloeimans, Sri Hanuraga, Riza Arshad "Simak Dialog", Lewis Pragasam, …
Festivals as North Sea Jazz Festival (Netherlands), Steve Reich Festival (Ámsterdam), Bimhuis (Ámsterdam), Bratislava Jazz Days (Slovakia), Flamenco Festival Vienna (Austria), SIPA (Indonesia), KLCC (Malaysia), Esplanade Theater (Singapore), Jazzycolors Festival (Paris), Viktoria Nasjonal Scene (Norway), Margaret Graham Theater (Canada), Prambanan Jazz Heritage Festival (Prambanan Hindu Temple, Indonesia), Café Central (Madrid),...
Along the years he has received numerous grants and scholarships, been supported by Banff Center of Arts (Canada), Prins Bernhard Fonds (The Netherlands), Ministery of Education and Culture (Indonesia), AIE (Spain),...
Nowadays, he is developing his own personal music project "The Java Spring", which music is broadly acquainted with the sounds and languages of electronic ambient film music, world-music, traditional indonesian music, 70's jazz rock, meditation music, classical and contemporary, and modern jazz.
As a freelance musician, he has performed a broad range of music styles, from solo performances to jazz orchestras or free jazz/contemporary ensembles including classical, jazz, rock, noise music, music for dance, film music,...with excellent musicians, projects and ensembles as: Phil Woods, Norma Winstone, London Improvisers Orchestra, Saray Muñoz, Lázara López Cachao, Rianto, Mao Arata, Maya Dance Theater, Peni Candrarini, Hank Bennink, The Hague Ethospheric Orchestra, Michal Moore, John Ruocco, Bobby Martínez, Lucky Losada, Antonio Sánchez, Saúl Quirós, Israel Cerreduela, Nicole Mitchell, Yuri Honing, Eric Vloeimans, Sri Hanuraga, Riza Arshad "Simak Dialog", Lewis Pragasam, …
Festivals as North Sea Jazz Festival (Netherlands), Steve Reich Festival (Ámsterdam), Bimhuis (Ámsterdam), Bratislava Jazz Days (Slovakia), Flamenco Festival Vienna (Austria), SIPA (Indonesia), KLCC (Malaysia), Esplanade Theater (Singapore), Jazzycolors Festival (Paris), Viktoria Nasjonal Scene (Norway), Margaret Graham Theater (Canada), Prambanan Jazz Heritage Festival (Prambanan Hindu Temple, Indonesia), Café Central (Madrid),...
Along the years he has received numerous grants and scholarships, been supported by Banff Center of Arts (Canada), Prins Bernhard Fonds (The Netherlands), Ministery of Education and Culture (Indonesia), AIE (Spain),...
Nowadays, he is developing his own personal music project "The Java Spring", which music is broadly acquainted with the sounds and languages of electronic ambient film music, world-music, traditional indonesian music, 70's jazz rock, meditation music, classical and contemporary, and modern jazz.
RELATED HIGHLIGHTS PERFORMANCES
Solo International Performing Arts Festival (feat. Peni Candrarini). Surakarta. Java (Indonesia). 2016
Solo City Jazz Festival (with Tesla Manaf). Surakarta. Java (Indonesia). 2016
Purnama Seruling Penataran Festival. Penataran hindu temple. Blitar. Java.(indonesia). 2016
Lanjong Arts Festival (feat. Rianto). Kalimantan (Indonesia). 2015)
Jazz in de Gracht. The Hague (The Netherlands). 2016
Poneart Festival (feat. Mao Arata). Portonovo. Galicia (Spain). 2015)
Purnama Seruling Penataran Festival. Penataran hindu temple. Blitar. Java (Indonesia). 2015
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OTHER PERFORMANCES
Bimhuis. Amsterdam (The Netherlands). 2018
Esplanade Theater. Singapore. 2017
Kota Kinabalu Jazz Festival. Malaysia. 2017
KLCC. Kuala Lumpur. Malaysia. 2017
Flamenco Festival Vienna (Austria) 2016
Bandung Jazz Festival (with Simak Dialog). Indonesia. 2016
Prambanan Jazz Heritage Festival(with Simak Dialog). Prambanan Temple. 2016
Bratislava Jazz Days Festival. Slovakia. 2014
Margaret Graham Theater. Canada. 2009
North Sea Jazz Festival (with Phil Woods & strings).The Hague. 2005
Esplanade Theater. Singapore. 2017
Kota Kinabalu Jazz Festival. Malaysia. 2017
KLCC. Kuala Lumpur. Malaysia. 2017
Flamenco Festival Vienna (Austria) 2016
Bandung Jazz Festival (with Simak Dialog). Indonesia. 2016
Prambanan Jazz Heritage Festival(with Simak Dialog). Prambanan Temple. 2016
Bratislava Jazz Days Festival. Slovakia. 2014
Margaret Graham Theater. Canada. 2009
North Sea Jazz Festival (with Phil Woods & strings).The Hague. 2005
IMAGES
INSTRUMENTATION / SET UP
Flute in C
Alto flute in G
Electronics
MIDI controller
Mixer
Microphone
Voice
Cambodian gongs
Bells
Javanese sulings
Balinese sulings
Thai ken
Cambodian Sralay
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Alto flute in G
Electronics
MIDI controller
Mixer
Microphone
Voice
Cambodian gongs
Bells
Javanese sulings
Balinese sulings
Thai ken
Cambodian Sralay
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DOSSIER 
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THE JAVA SPRING (2018)
