Jiwa Kala New York Performances

Peni Candra Rini brings her Jiwa Kala to National Sawdust in a trio with New York multi-instrumentalist Shahzad Ismaily and drummer Andy McGraw, presented by World Music Institute. The project moves between song form and open-ended structure, using rock and pop as a frame while letting indie and ambient-jazz instincts shape the space around the voice. In New York, the collaboration reads as a small-scale cultural exchange staged in real time, with Javanese-rooted sensibilities meeting downtown improvisation. One clear point emerges: the music treats genre less as identity than as method.