A visit to a musical instrument museum with her toddler son inspired El Perro del Mar’s Sarah Assbring to recalibrate her pop sensibilities and work on what would become KoKoro. It was a “please-touch” museum where they could play the instruments, and Assbring fell in love with the percussion used in Indonesian gamelan music, and with harps from Asia and Africa. KoKoro looks outward, both musically and lyrically, to the world, and rather than a tender clinch, it’s a wholehearted bear hug of global pop sounds. Assbring will be guest editing magnetmagazine.com all week. Read our new feature on her.
Assbring: Grietine Molenbuur is a Dutch choreographer and artistic leader of the dance company Dansgroep Duende. This film is a mobile footage (I think) taken of them performing the piece Silhouetten at the festival Oerol in 2007. I happened to find this somehow and just completely love the rawness of the actual footage. It would probably be something completely different if it had been filmed professionally. As I’m a longtime fan of modern dance and with a touch of classical ballet, this film is a piece of heaven for me. I had to share it!
