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On the Website of the Java Jazz Festival Balawan quoted :
If we play jazz like the Americans, theyre already used to it. But if we deliver Balinese music with jazz, theyll get something new. Something unconventional.
I Wayan Balawan was born at Gianyar, Bali, Indonesia on 9 th of Sept. 1973
He started playing music at the age of 8 and founded a group at elementary school. He played songs by Deep Purple and Beatles. Bored by rock music, when he graduated from high school he moved to Sydney to study jazz guitar & vocals at the Australian Institute of Music.
He achieved a scholarship for 3 years(Diploma of Music). He became a well-known guitarist for 5 years in Sydney until he came back home to Bali in 1997, then formed Batuan Ethnic Fusion.
I Wayan Balawan and Batuan Ethnic Fusion :
Ethnic Balinese Music combined with Jazz, modern Worlbeats
one amazing !!!!!!! album in 1999 : GLOBALISM
2 more Solo Albums , the newest Album released on Sony/BMG Indonesia " MAGIC FINGERS"
He is a versatile guitarist that play many styles of music, and also a great solo performer , invited by many Festivals worldwide , performs also as a Trio with Guest Vocalists ( see Presskit : Songs / released CDs of his versatile Styles with various Guest Vocalists and himself singing )
Balawan is an immensely talented guitarist with his very personal style.
He is a specialist of the so-called touch tapping style (like Stanley Jordan): with the fingers of his left and right hand tapping on the guitar neck he plays simultaneously bass, chords and melody, as if he were playing a piano. As if that werent enough he is able to play 2 guitars at the same time with great agility.
Extremely virtuoso he doesnt neglect smoothness in his melodic performances.
In Indonesia Balawan is considered as the best Indonesian Jazz guitar player, he plays at Tv-shows. Hes a guitar teacher and often performs at the Music School in Indonesia, he does promotion tours for Ibanez guitars and Laney amplifiers.
He has toured Europe and Australia in the past:
- East Meet West Gitarren Festival Edenkoben Germany 2000
- Tour in 20 Cities in Germany 2001
- Hell Blues Festival in Norway September 2001
- He has released a solo album produced in Germany in 2001.
- Hell Blues Festival Norway September 2005.
- Australian Tour october 2005
- Tokyo Asia Music Mart October 2005
- POP ASia Fukuoka Oktober
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