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Hi everyone. We are a band called Fontana Folle.
Let us introduce us briefly.
Alvin: I’m a vocalist, Alvin. Yuki: I’m a leader/bassist, Yuki Lee.
Yoko: And I’m a support keyboardist, Yoko Yamazaki.
Yuki: Well, what are we going to talk about? Yoko: We just went to Indonesia Yuki: Oh yeah, that’s right. Yoko: They brought me to the tour.
Yuki: We’ve done three gigs in total. Then, the first one was at “Mondo by the Rooftop”
It was a place widely renowned and supported by many people in Jakarta. I would say it’s like a sanctuary of the cool indie music scene in Indonesia.
Then, many people supported us for this tour came to the show there. Sachiko Asada, the cool music videographer, Rieko Yui from The Japan Foundation
and very popular singer song writer in Indonesia, Hiroaki Kato They all came to the show.
It was like... it was really touching moment for us. Alvin: Yeah, it was a great moment. Great guests.
Yoko: It was a cool moment, filled of love. Yuki: Yeah, it was.
Yoko: The place was very comfortable indeed. Yuki: True. Yoko: I can tell it’s because Shun created the cool atmosphere (the owner of Mondo) Everybody is welcome to come.
Yuki: I noticed one thing on the wall there. It was a really great phrase. “Tampa batas. Damai Dunia” It means “Break the boarders. World piece”
Yuki: I was really impressed by his philosophy and devotion, as he is doing it as a foreigner in the complex multicultural country like Indonesia.
I want to play such a great place again.
Yuki: Then, the second gig was at The Japan Foundation. The organization was established to be a cultural bridge in between of Japan and other countries.
It was almost one month before going to Jakarta when we got the offer from them.
The offer was for the event called, “Japan Week” The event week to introduce Japanese culture basically and they wanted to have a day for music specifically at the event.
Their plan was to have dual guests including us. The other one is Mondo Gascaro, the giant of Indonesian cool indie music scene. He took a part at a talk show and we performed some songs at the same event.
Then, well. I thought like “Dude, is it really OK to have such a lot of audiences?” (As it’s first time for us to perform in Indonesia)
We had Q&A session after the show. Yoko: There were many high school students too. Yuki: Yeah, true.
Yuki: We got many adults too. Yoko: Yeah. The Q&A session was really fun.
Yuki: Yeah, we got many questions about where our music actually came from. We talked about Italian music of course, Brazilian and Japanese too.
Yuki: About Japanese music Mondo Gascaro talked about it a lot at his talk show. We were asked about the difference of Jazz and Brazilian Jazz.
Yoko: Yeah, the important words at that time was Italian Jazz and Brazilian Jazz as the roots of Fontana Folle’s music. It was really fun moment, covering many things from many countries.
Yoko: Then, Mondo Gascaro is quite familiar with Japan. Since he was inspired by City Pop he talked about the related musicians like Tatsuro Yamashita.
Yuki: It was really fun indeed. I only understood a very few words of him in Indonesian though.
Yuki: It was really great experience. Yoko: Yeah, it was fun.
I really want to do it again. Right we want to do it again?