Koyo
Tue–Sat · 7pm–1am
Side C · C1

Listening
sessions.

First Wednesday of each month. One album, side to side. Short spoken notes before each side. No talking during. Twelve seats, RM 50, a glass is included.

C2 · Upcoming · 2026

May · Wed06
Scheherazade
Rimsky-Korsakov · Concertgebouw / Kondrashin · 1980 Philips
Sides played in order. A sparkling to start, a red through the second half.
4 seats left
RM 50
Jun · Wed03
Solo Monk
Thelonious Monk · Columbia · 1965
Short introduction on Monk's touch. One record. One hour.
Open
RM 50
Jul · Wed01
Music for 18 Musicians
Steve Reich & Musicians · ECM · 1978
Played through with a five-minute pause between sides. A junmai to sit with it.
Open
RM 50
Aug · Wed05
Blue
Joni Mitchell · Reprise · 1971
Our first vocal record in a year. Min will keep the notes short.
Open
RM 50
Sep · Wed02
Köln Concert
Keith Jarrett · ECM · 1975
Whole concert, both sides. Please arrive by 7:45pm.
Open
RM 50
C3 · How it works

Doors at 7pm. The record starts at 8. Min introduces it briefly — who made it, where they were, why this pressing. Then he lowers the needle and everyone shuts up. Phones face down. No photos during the music.

Between sides we pour, people stretch, Farah brings out a small plate. Side B begins when it begins. We end around 9:45, the bar goes back to normal, and most people stay a little longer.

Twelve seats, always. To book, phone us — the line's quiet on Tuesday afternoons. We hold the last two seats until the day of, for anyone who walks up.

"The food is small because the listening is the meal." — we mean it most on Wednesdays.

C4 · Said of the sessions

Koyo's Wednesdays are the closest thing to a concert KL has that doesn't want to call itself one. Monocle — The Kuala Lumpur Issue, 2024
Forty-five minutes of Jarrett, in a room where nobody reached for a phone. It felt, briefly, like 1999. The Standard · Food & Drink, 2023