Ensemble Nist-Nah performed live at Le Guess Who? 2025, bringing together eight eclectic musicians in a fusion of gamelan and experimental percussion at Utrecht's iconic Jacobi church. Listen to, and relive, the full performance via the recording below.
Led by drummer and percussionist Will Guthrie, Ensemble Nist-Nah draws on a wide range of traditional Indonesian musics and gong-based sounds from Southeast Asia. Their work builds on Guthrie’s long-standing engagement with pitched percussion and resonant metals. Inspired by the suspended time of Javanese gamelan Sekaten, the intense repetition of the trance ritual Jathilan, and the shimmering acoustic textures of Balinese composer Dewa Alit and his gamelan Salukat.
Le Guess Who? Recordings
The publication of this recording is part of Le Guess Who?’s ongoing expansion of the festival’s recordings archive, with 150+ recordings from past editions now freely available online.
This archive contains audio and/or video recordings of performances by The Dwarfs of East Agouza, The Cosmic Tones Research Trio, Ali Sethi & Nicolás Jaar, aja monet, ASA-CHANG & Junray, DARKSIDE, Meshell Ndegeocello, Kamilya Jubran, Alan Sparhawk, Stereolab, Tom Skinner, Selda Bağcan, clipping., Aldous Harding, Deerhunter, Art Ensemble of Chicago, The Microphones, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Arooj Aftab, Beverly Glenn-Copeland, and many more.
Captured at Jacobikerk on Saturday, 8 November 2025.
Audio recording by Philip ten Brink; mix by Marc Broer
Photography by Lisanne Lentink
