Events – Jazz in July 2025

Esplanade Presents

Music

Love Cry: Ecstatic Ballads for Broken Hearts

Various Artists (Singapore)

6 Jul 2025, Sun, 5.30pm & 6.30pm

30mins

(Intermission: None)

Esplanade Theatre Studio

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Synopsis
Synopsis

Love Cry is an ongoing performance project that reimagines sentimental Asian ballads—particularly Thai Luk Thung—through the ecstatic, explosive vocabulary of free jazz, inspired by the work of Albert Ayler.

 

Rather than blending genres, this project stages a confrontation—a transfiguration. The artists approach these songs not with irony, but with intensity, treating their sentimentality as a wellspring of power, memory, and transformation.

 

Each performance is a risk: a negotiation between melody and rupture, memory and fire.

 

Love Cry does not aim to preserve tradition—it sets it alight, to discover what dances in the flames.

 

Tim O’Dwyer (Saxophone)

Dharma (Guitar)

Ada Adhiyatma (Guitar)

Tony Makarome (Bass)

Darren Moore (Drums)

Chloe Lee (Electronics)

Language: English
Things to Note:
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Date & Time

6 Jul 2025, Sun

5.30pm

Esplanade Theatre Studio

6.30pm

Esplanade Theatre Studio
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