Y-DRA // Yennu Ariendra, is a music composer, producer, musician, DJ and digital artist who works in the area of music, performance, and also visual. Almost all of his works depart from the values of tradition and history in Indonesia, Java in particular. The method of creation aslo involved a Javanese cultural approach, such embodiment, and instinctive expression, which intertwined between local and global, past and present, traditional and modern. In his previous works, He departed from the strong practice of traditional art, ranging from music, dance, performance, visual, and rituals, and put them in a new critical narrative and then recreate/re-translated them in contemporary forms.
Y-DRA album “No-Brain Dance”, was released by @yesnowavemusic in 2019, inspired from Dangdut Koplo, Dance Music that grows and develops in Indonesia, especially in Java.
Photo: Y-DRA Live at SchwuZ, Berlin by @udosiegfriedt CTM Festival
