Watch Elephant Kind’s new documentary about EP ‘Superblue’ and moving from Indonesia to London: “Everyone came here to just do music and be inspired”
nme.comElephant Kind made a huge leap: uprooting from their home country of Indonesia to move to London for their music. It’s a move that’s the subject of their new documentary, From Indo to England, which NME is hosting exclusively here along with a chat about their new EP ‘Superblue’ and more.
Check it all out below.In the Indonesian capital of Jakarta, Elephant Kind are a known quantity: their albums ‘City J’ and ‘The Greatest Ever’ have racked up millions of streams and the band have opened for the likes of The xx and Franz Ferdinand.
But for the next phase of their career, the band decided to move to London sight unseen.“We don’t have any history [in London],” frontman Bam Mastro told NME. “We’ve never been to London before this.
We’re new. We’re just three immigrants walking around the city going ‘yo, listen to our music’.”Elephant Kind – rounded out by drummer Bayu Adisapoetra and bassist Kevin Septanto – have since started to make ripples in their adopted country.
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