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Love Cry: Ecstatic Ballads for Broken Hearts
Love Cry reimagines sentimental Asian ballads through fiery free jazz, transforming tradition into a raw, emotional and explosive experience.
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Sun, 6 Jul 2025
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Sun, 6 Jul 2025: 5:30 pm,6:30 pm
Esplanade Theatre Studio
Various Artists
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Love Cry: Ecstatic Ballads for Broken Hearts | Jazz in July 2025 | Free | Various Artists | Event
Esplanade Presents

Love Cry: Ecstatic Ballads for Broken Hearts

Various Artists (Singapore)
Jazz in July 2025Music
6 Jul 2025
Esplanade Theatre Studio
30mins (No Intermission)
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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)

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