"I get my ingredients from a supermarket in Hawthorn called Grand Laguna. "I asked mum to make that for my 12th birthday sleepover because it felt so festive," says Utomo. Marty Smiley chats with the singer of High Tension. The score is “image and line-based”, she says. Traditional dancing and other artistic practices are important aspects of our Javanese culture. Karina Utomo is best known by music fans as the vocalist for Melbourne-based heavy metal band High Tension.

Politically, it was an extremely tumultuous time in the country, with the end of the 31-year, extremely corrupt, Suharto reign.

Our neighbours came from Samoa, Poland, Russia and India; people from all over the world in the same place, going through a similar experience, on one street. This happened to millions of Indonesians.”, I ask her whether survivors of the period harbour any guilt about being unharmed, while neighbours and possibly family members were targeted.

You want to cook this for about an hour and test the tenderness of the beef / make sure the flavours have seeped into the tofu. Utomo harnesses an unmistakeable anger, though the singer says we all have a repressed rage – she just found a cathartic way to let it loose. Karina Utomo sings in the heavy-metal band High Tension. Food, also, is a universal language and the one that provides a cultural and familial link between Utomo and her family. “My father told me he would see people get killed in his village,” she says, before adding quietly, “and he would just ignore it.” He had no choice. People were going into a panic when those who couldn’t afford to buy up staple items from stores, like bags of rice or oil, became desperate. I definitely struggled with adjusting, after having had a taste of the Australian education system, with how much it fostered creative freedom and critical thinking. Sign in to like videos, comment, and subscribe. Common to each version are the chewy egg noodles that form the base of the dish, coated in a delicious sweet and salty sauce, stirred together with vegetables, meat, tofu or seafood. Purge deals in detail with the massacres of 1965 and 1966. Have a bit of oil on hand and brush it on to the surface of the beef so you achieve a golden-brown finish in the grilling process. Die! Plus, the rapid spread of misinformation drove people to resort to looting and rash violence. Chuck the whole pot in the fridge. I like to use a combination of different cuts for texture and I tend not to remove the fat. High Tension | Karina Utomo talks moshpit safety, festivals, Indonesian hea… If you could give your younger self one piece of advice, about being in the skin you’re in, what would it be? Disney+ is bringing some exciting new movies and series to their catalog of classics! That really passive response that Javanese people have is probably because of the violence they were subjected to. I am no expert. She is seated in the home she shares with her husband, Murray McKenny, a drummer and reporting specialist with the Australian Securities and Investments Commission.

You smell it, then you feel that heat from ginger when you're eating it and the texture is unique too.
My pet hate is getting lectured by strangers (who are often unfamiliar with technique) that I’m bound to damage my voice. It’s pretty awesome.”, Whether with High Tension’s thundering metal or in the non-verbal screams of Speechless, Utomo’s raw singing itself comes across as an act of purging. It is also affirming to look at the history of traditional and contemporary ‘abrasive’ singing. The beef is to be seared before cutting into cubes, take care to not cut the pieces too small as it will shrink in size and will make it impossible to skewer or fall apart in the cooking process.

Crush with a mortar and pestle, or use a blender/food processor if you want to take a shortcut.

It's laborious," warns Utomo. To use it, they bury it in charcoal until it goes dark, but it's got a really smooth, nutty flavour but the way they've treated it makes everything go black. "If you're pressed for time, the cheat is to use a Nutribullet to make parts of this, but you need to cook the paste first, then you add the meat or tofu and the aromatics before you marinate all this. It wasn’t until I had access to social media (Friendster & MySpace), in mid-2000s Australia, that I started going to DIY shows. “I remember being berated by my Indonesian language teacher because I had used the wrong grammar, telling me I had betrayed my own country because I could not speak my own language properly.” Utomo laughs ruefully. But away from the stage, the Indonesian-Australian is committed to perfecting the art of Indonesian street food in her kitchen. What has been your experience of becoming a heavy music artist in the Australian music scene? Use unsalted vegetable broth if you’re making the tofu version. Getting people to talk candidly is difficult, though, even today. Feb 9, 2019 as "Roar history". Sign in. How much longer did you stay in Jakarta after the May 1998 riots? The album was done over a period of 6 months in Larkin's studio in Brunswick. Known for her dynamic vocal ability Karina Utomo's roar is more than an expression of power and rage, as she fronts extreme metal band High Tension. When I went back, I didn’t attend school for the first six months of the year because of the different schooling systems between the two countries.
"I Pointed at You and You Burst into Flames" recalls a conversation Karina overheard where a woman yelled at two foreigners for speaking another language other than English.[4]. Discovering my novel Chinese-Indonesian heritage through food. While the Communist Party of Indonesia, known as PKI, has long been eliminated as a political force, President Joko Widodo has ruled out an apology for the mass murder. Die! When Karina Utomo returned as a teenager to Jakarta from Canberra, where her demographer parents gained their doctorates, she was worried. KU. The reality of the situation was that there was no feeling of real ‘freedom’, like what I felt in Australia. 958 Followers, 921 Following, 33 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from karina utomo (@karina.utomo) School Strike 4 Climate organiser says climate activism is whitewashed. Even as a 14-year-old, my friends and I were constantly talking about politics, feeling genuinely concerned and fearful.

“He was calling me lazy and made me stand on one leg for an hour.”. Freecall 1800 077 514 (Australia only), Whether singing about the bloody past of the country of her birth in metal band High Tension, or in the wordless growls and screams of, Or sign in with your existing account from. “Let me stop and think, because I get asked this a lot.”, After a pause: “I started learning how to sing in that way when I saw a hardcore band in Canberra. 5,241 Followers, 1,559 Following, 679 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Karina Utomo (@karinautomo) Episode #44 feat. They're also fierier, they warm you up on the palate and in the chest. When Judith does her vibratos, it is like lightning cutting through the atmosphere. Feeling frustration in wanting to help refugees, the composer says she wanted to enable people to process the complex issues involved, seeing opera as a transportive art form with many tools – overtures, arias, duets – for conveying complexity. *and since the mid to late 1960’s but, that’s another piece of brutal history. A free press is one you pay for. I remember the teacher, who taught ‘Bahasa Indonesia’, berating me for using incorrect Indonesian grammar during class. Indonesian cuisine is immensely diverse, as the nation is comprised of around 17,000 islands. In November 2007, the band took the QANTAS Spirit of Youth Award in the music category, the prize included a mentorship with legendary music producer Nick Launay. "Satan" has been seen as a pisstake on the two genres in alternative music that were popular at the time - hardcore and dance. Front woman Karina Utomo growls into the heavily beaten drum patterns, sometimes bellowing high pitched screams into the mic. As a teenager, I really enjoyed personal songwriting outside of traditional art practices like traditional dance and music as there were fewer parameters to adhere to. KARINA UTOMO.

Growing up though, these artistic practices were not really seen as anything more than a hobby (I come from a very academic family).