Myanmar Jazz Club - MJC

Hello Jazz Lovers! 🎷အရင်လက ကျင်းပခဲ့တဲ့ International Jazz Day ကိုမှတ်မိသေးလား။ အဲ့မှာကိုယ့်ရဲ့ အမှတ်တရအဖြစ်ဆုံးနဲ့ သဘောကြခဲ့တဲ့ performance တွေကို ပြောပေးပါအုံးနော်။ 📣📣📣

International Jazz Day 2026 Recap Video

Special thanks to all artists, musicians, organizers, sponsors and audiences for this memorable event where jazz music brings diverse groups of audiences to celebrate the evening!

Massive thank you to Me, Jue, Min Khant & the Funk Cats, M.O.E - မိုး & Happy Campers, Tagon Trio, Moe Naing & Htet Arkar, ISM Big Band, Khup Bawi & The Zolapii Experiment, The Pocket Syndicate, Itö - အီတိုး, Tun Oo & Friends and our special guest U Derek Miller.

And heartfelt thank you to Institut français de Birmanie , Rohto Acnes, Grand Royal and 1964 Gastro Pub for the support.

Video by Xiao D The Art House

REALMS BEYOND BORDERS III: Spirit Realm

Composers:
Saw Moses (Myanmar)
Pana Topoonyanont (Thailand)
Monika Herzig (Germany)

Description:
Spirit Realm is the third movement of the Realms Beyond Borders concert and unfolds as a space of ease, clarity, and gentle suspension. Here, struggle dissolves into flow, and awareness rests lightly within the natural rhythms of existence. Time softens. Breath becomes music. The world feels momentarily complete.

Yet beneath this boundless calm lies a quiet fragility. This realm can only be understood in relation to those that came before it—the Planes of Misery and the striving of the Human Realm. Detached from suffering, Spirit risks forgetting its purpose. Bliss without remembrance becomes weightless, ungrounded, and subtly dangerous. When awareness drifts too far from compassion, the Spirit Realm itself becomes cyclical, drawing us back toward lower realms, not as punishment, but as reminder.

I Somewhere (Saw Moses):
..captures the feeling of suddenly finding yourself in an unfamiliar world. It begins with motifs of surprise, shifts into a heartbeat-like rhythm that reflects curiosity and fear, and unfolds through improvisation where these emotions merge into a search for understanding and acceptance of this mysterious new place.

II Form (Pana):

The song moves at a slow, gentle pace, creating a calm atmosphere. It brings a sense of peace and ease. It isn’t happy or sad—simply peaceful.

III Sacred Earth (Monika):

Humanity needs to find its way back to respect nature and realize that we are only a very small part of a large ecosystem. If we keep destroying the environment, we are destroying the very essence of our being. Only by honoring and integrating with nature we will have a future.

Credit

Piano: Monika Herzig
Sax: Pana Toopoonyanont
Trombone/Pocket Trumpet: James Greening
Bass: Itö
Drummer: Christian Monninger

Dancer: Simran Patgaonkar
Costume Designer: Ja Seng Bu
Audio Engineer: Christian Monninger
Filmmaker: Florian Greiner