Batavia Collective is an Indonesian jazz trio making some exciting contemporary future jazz. Signed to Belgium based label R&S, this single ‘Joni Indo’ is released on March 24th, and comes from their debut EP ‘BTCV’, to be released in May. Fans of Vels Trio to Yussef Kamaal will find much to like.

At pains to not be defined or pigeonholed, BTCV explain

“we are often asked what kind of jazz this is. To tell you the truth we don’t know. We don’t even know if our music can be considered jazz or not. We create the music through jamming, and afterwards, we vote on certain compositions together,”.

say the collective

Who said modesty was dead!