Kaazi

Kaazi (Izak Jerasimo) is a recording artist, producer, experimental composer, and a founding member of the group Asa Tone, alongside Melati ESP and Tristan Arp. Incidental Scenes is a collection of music made for film, documentaries and shorts, including "After The Flags" on seminal Javanese contemporary artist and activist Arahmaiani, "Beyond Dualism" on New York artist Futura 2000, and "Anatomy of An Artist" on Yogyakarta-based filmmaker Natasha Tontey.

Recorded between New York and G Zui studios in Indonesia, and working directly from vision provided by the directors, each movement gleams in the emotional landscapes of its original scene, spanning sonorous percussive workouts, subaquatic synth forages, and suspended moments of introspective stillness, matching key to character. Much of this collection came to pass during a tumultuous period in the producers life; one of significant loss and redirection following the passing of some close friends in a short window, including a treasured recent collaborator, the late, great Ariel Kalma.

Kaazi’s music, like much of his work in Asa Tone, is a tactile embrace of intuitive play, drawing on voice, synthesis, stringed instruments, metallophones and recordings from the field, frequently exploring both rhythm and resonate texture, as a conduit for connection.