Balawan
Bio
Born in Gianyar, Bali, in 1972, I Wayan Balawan started playing at 8 and earned a scholarship to the Australian Institute of Music in Sydney. In 1997 he formed Batuan Ethnic Fusion, a band that combines Balinese gamelan instruments with jazz-rock. He is known for his two-handed touch-tapping technique on double-neck guitar, playing bass, chords and melody at once. He has toured Europe, Asia, Australia and the US, including Java Jazz, Quebec City Summer Festival, Other Minds in San Francisco, and a performance at UNESCO in Paris. He also founded the BUMI foundation for music education and gamelan.