Jakarta’s The Music Gallery is back and this time they’ve enlisted wistful folk Welshman Novo Amor as international headliner.
The indie music affair is back in its eight year on Saturday, March 10 at Kuningan City Ballroom.
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Beside Novo Amor, who will be making his Indonesia debut, The 8th Music Gallery will feature some of the most distinguished homegrown acts like White Shoes & the Couples Company, Bam Mastro, HEALS, and SXSW alum Lightcraft.
More names will be revealed in the coming days. Considering what we’ve seen before, fans can expect great things. The Music Gallery has welcomed the likes of HONNE, Panama and The Last Dinosaurs in recent years. Follow them on Twitter for the latest.
Phase three pre-sale tickets are available for IDR150,000 hereΒ or throughΒ 081314271668.
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Hailing from deep in the Welsh mountains, Ali John Meredith-Lacey or Novo Amor, is known for “From Gold”, “Weather” and “Carry You”. His striking and melancholic brand of “beard folk” recalls predecessors like Bon Iver and Iron & Wine while liable to transport the listener to another realm.
Lacey recentlyΒ releasedΒ Heiress, a collaborative debut album with Brighton-bred songwriter and producer Ed Tullett. It features βTerraformβ, accompanied by a video that was shot in Indonesia and depicts the hard lives of the sulphur miners of Ijen and their families.
