Dalam rangka menggali bakat-bakat musik lokal dari Indonesia Sinjitos Records kembali memperkenalkan sebuah kelompok baru asal Jakarta yang kembali memberi alternatif segar bagi dunia musik Indonesia, Roman Foot Soldiers. Kelompok yang dibentuk di Vancouver, Canada ini mengusung gabungan berbagai jenis musik dan sound yang beragam dengan pop sebagai warna dasarnya. Walaupun band ini belum banyak dikenal, keunikan musik karya Tim (vocals), Reza (bass), Gogor (guitar), Pria (guitar), Josh (keys) dan Luky (drums) mampu dengan cepat menarik perhatian para pecinta musik. Terbukti ketika mereka mengadakan sebuah pertunjukan di Hard Rock Cafe (HRC), Jakarta, Roman Foot Soldiers sukses membuat seisi HRC kagum pada repertoir yang mereka bawakan.
Streets Without Signs sendiri bercerita mengenai suatu perjalanan tanpa tujuan pasti, berani mengambil pilihan untuk kehilangan arah. Terinspirasi oleh perjalanan melalui labirin jalan-jalan di jantung kota, kita kadang menemukan diri kita hilang di daerah tak dikenal. Setiap bangunan dan persimpangan terlihat sama. Strategi keluar hanya untuk memilih satu arah dan terus berjalan. Karena melalui petualangan ini kita terkadang menemukan sesuatu secara tidak sengaja dan ternyata merupakan hal yang sangat menarik
Untuk memperkenalkan kelompok ini ke khalayak ramai, Sinjitos Records meluncurkan single dari Roman Foot Soldiers “Streets Without Signs” yang dapat didownload secara gratis dan dapat didistribusikan secara bebas. Kelompok ini rencananya akan mulai mengerjakan album perdana mereka di tahun 2011.
Sinjitos Records kembali merilis free downloadable internet single dari salah satu band yang berada di dalam roster mereka yakni BRNDLS dengan lagu “Start Bleeding”. Lagu ini menjadi teaser dari perubahan musikal yang terjadi di album ke empat mereka “DGNR8” yang rencananya akan dirilis pada bulan Januari 2011 di bawah naungan Sinjitos Records.
Perubahan warna musik yang terjadi di album “DGNR8” ini dipicu oleh bergabungnya dua personil baru (Gitaris PM dan Bassist Radit) ke dalam formasi terkini dari BRNDLS. Terlibatnya produser Joseph Saryuf dalam proses aransemen musik dan tata suara dalam album ini pun berhasil membawa angin segar dalam evolusi musik BRNDLS.
Lagu ‘Start Bleeding’ sendiri merupakan bentuk dokumentasi dari kondisi bangsa Indonesia yang saat ini sedang terpuruk secara moral akibat pertikaian politik dari pihak–pihak yang rakus, egois dan haus darah. Konflik–konflik yang belakangan ini terjadi hanya akan membawa hasil akhir yang mengenaskan, menuju kehancuran kolateral dan mutilasi moral. Hingga tiada lagi itikad untuk memajukan dan mempersatukan bangsa ini dengan semangat yang konstruktif.
Link Download:
http://www.4shared.com/audio/1jLVZeKg/BRNDLS_-_Start_Bleeding.html
http://www.mediafire.com/?pc3zzcp8qtkzfz3
http://official.fm/track/174368
http://soundcloud.com/sinjitosrecords/brndls-start-bleeding/s-Av8eV
Bayu Risa was born as Bayu Purwadi Risakotta in Depok, October 6, 1983. He already shown his interest in music at the early age of 10 when he joined a vocal group in an Indonesian cultural exchange program. He traveled to Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei Darusalam, Thailand, and the United States to sing Indonesian songs and introduced local culture to residents in those countries.
When he was in high school, Bayu Risa continued developing his musical talent by actively performing in cafes and and school shows .After graduated, Bayu went to Bandung to join a band called Ever Nine. In 2005 his musical career was hampered by a long sickness that forced him to quit music for awhile. However, quickly after he recovered, he was asked to join PASTO and with this band he made his name in the Indonesian music scene. In 2007, PASTO released their debut album that was produced
by Glenn Fredly under Rame-Rame People Records and distributed by RPM. Despite the band's increasing fame, Bayu Risa decided to leave the band in 2008.
With hard determination and passion to succeed on his own, in 2009 Bayu Risa released his first single “Inner Beauty” which he wrote himself. When producing his first single, Bayu Risa was helped by several friends, one of them is famous arranger David “Tities” Salanggamo that mixed and arranged the “Inner Beauty” single.
Unlike most singers, he prefers to release a single before releasing an album. He said, “it’s not about how many songs you can compose but it’s about heart and feeling that you put inside in your music”
Currently, Bayu Risa is preparing to release his debut solo record under Sinjitos Records. The yet-to-be titled album will be released in October 2010.
CONTACT:
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Photograph by Bona Soetirto
Stylist by Anindita Saryuf
Wardrobe by Danjyo Hiyoji
Special thanks to Anto TONI&GUY
Stereocase is a Jakarta's finest alternative rock band that was formed in March2008. It all began in the early 2008 when two brothers Fadli(vocal) and Rifqi(drum) was driven by passion for great music had an idea to form a new band that combined various kind of music such as Rock, Funk, Jazz, Pop, etc. After months of searching, the so called "fate" led them to the people who shared the same vision. They are Doni, a talented bass player they found through the web and Richard, a struggling guitarist and musician who is a college friend of Rifqi.
On March 19th 2008 they jammed for the first time and founded a new form of music influenced by : Incubus, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Lenny Kravitz, Jamiroquai, John Mayer, The Police, No Doubt, Adam Lambert, Lostprophets, Jimi Hendrix,
Black Sabbath, etc.
Stereocase recorded several songs that can be heard at
(myspace.com/stereocaseband). And also you can find Stereocase at (Twitter, Facebook, and Youtube). The band continue to create a unique and honest music as great as possible. So they hope they can break into the Indonesian mainstream music Industry and go international with their uniqueness & idealism.
FIND STEREOCASE AT :
www.twitter.com/stereocase
www.myspace.com/stereocaseband
www.youtube.com/stereocaseband
facebook:@stereocase indonesia
JARB (just another rock band) is the brainchild of bagus pratama, what started as a 90s rock/alternative rock cover band in early 2004 with bagus pratama on guitars and vocals, bramasta juan sasongko on bass and vocals, and fadhil patra on drums have long evolved to a more serious project with the addition of molen kasetra on vocals in late-2009.
Covering bands like silverchair, smashing pumpkins, stone temple pilots, foo fighters, queens of the stone age and several other 90s bands for some years have enriched their musical arsenals, thus given them the inspirations needed to create their own materials. JARB is planning to release their album mid-2010.
To promote their upcoming album, JARB has released the single ‘wahana psikadelia’ as a free download, accessible through :
(The smallest linguistic unit within a word that can carry a meaning, such as "un-", "break", and "-able" in the word "unbreakable")
Morfem was formed on July 17th, 2009 in Jakarta. “Morfem” is a term that is often found in linguistic studies, one that bedazzled Jimi while learning bahasa in middle school. An interesting term to be adapted as a band name. The word “morfem” also feature an interesting combination of letters that also serve aesthetical purpose from a graphic-design standpoint.
Morfem is a melting-pot of a few band members from many different genres. Jimi Multhazam (vocals) is the frontman to the phenomenal new wave band, The Upstairs. Pandu Fathoni (guitars) is the guitarist of The Porno, a post-punk band that features dark and gloomy sounds. Bramasta Juan Sasongko (bass) is also the bassist of JARB, an alternative/stoner-rock with a more modern sounds and arrangements. Freddie Alexander Warnerin (drums), who also plays drums on the hardcore band, Nervous breakdown is used to playing in faster tempo.
The four of them teamed-up in Morfem to make a different kind of music from each of their respective bands. Morfem produce a light and easy listening music with straightforward narrative-descriptive lyrics with everyday theme (according to Soleh Solihun, Rolling Stone Indonesia). Wrapped with friendly, yet noisy guitar sounds, zig-zagging bassline encouraging anyone who listen to dance with the humble drumming.
February 11th 2010 Morfem released their first single, “Gadis Suku Pedalaman” free to download in the internet. Hundreds of downloads are recorded daily of this single which are mixed by Joseph Saryuf (Sinjitos/Santa Monica). This single marks Morfem’s first step to accelerate in Indonesia’s homogenic music scene.
After a period of time from the release of Lantai Merah, their debut album, currently Monkey to Millionaire are on a recording process for their upcoming EP titled "Strange is the Song in Our Conversation". The recording process itself has been a fresh musical experience for the band after a long while they have not been working in a studio. They have recorded three new songs out of four songs for the EP that would be released on the 13th of March.
The Porno is a post-punk band formed in Pondok Gede, Indonesia in 2004. The most distinctive feature of the band is its late 70's post-punk constant, heart-thumping rhythm which built around noisy and dissonant walls of distortion. The band got its name from Interpol’s NYC lyrics; “…subway she is a porno, pavements they are a mess…”
Contact us at:
droningbasslines@hotmail.com
sinjitos@yahoo.co.uk
08111907903 (Leo)
or just simply message us here in myspace.
http://www.myspace.com/theporno
Denial were possibly the most out-bursting collective arose in Jakarta in recent years. They are the latest familiar sound you long to hear. These Indonesian locals took their tentative steps in 2004 and become rather sure of what they are delivering today. Most bands stayed over romantic, illogically robotics, or even provoking loads of anger. This pack of talents releases it, not creating it. That is what makes them distinct from other artists: their angst-releasing music.
Initially, Denial was a four piece band. Now, they have more heads to simply bear more noise onto their projection of art. Denial are Toni (Vocal,Guitar), Benedict Pardede (Guitar), Gobe (Drums), Inezs Maheswari (Tambourine), Resi (Bass), and Ainjia Paat (Violin). The six of them then gave birth to such thrilling sound. Their modus operandi is at our very eyes: they have enough awareness about banalities of everyday life in the city, they gather up the remaining of our issues, and then formed numbers of loud liberating songs out of it. They genuinely live for and in the music.
This noise rock outfit captured multitude of musicians throughout particular eras in their performance. You might find it instantly from what they wear: leather jackets, boots, even their attitudes. But, it would not be a matter of concern once they hit the stage. All things aside, what you will hear, see, and feel would not be the appearance, but the splendorous feedbacks, robust layers of instruments, and soul-shivering vocal. The music is so strong, you will leave the brutal reality and then strikes back with euphoric spirit. They will release their debut album on April 2010.
Like their hometown Jakarta, Roman Foot Soldiers is a blend of many eccentric musical characters. Such contrasts however didn’t produce a clash of creativity, but it did inspire the group to pursue a sound unique enough to satisfy all band members’ appetite.
As for the name of the band, it represents both their fascination for epic war films and solidarity. Six distinct pieces brought together by a common cause: a passion for music.
Black Mustangs consists of six guys who has devoted their music to Psychedelic Rock Music between the 60's and 90's.
Minor shoegazing sounds could be heard from 3 guitars mix with funk drowning bass guitar combine with psychedelic drum beats with a nice and sweet tambourine sound and soulful vocal tone.
This will take you far from what you could ask for. It's your prerogative how far this can take you, a trip of "fun Psychedelic tone and a little bit of rock journey"...So cheers and enjoy your journey with us.
Was found in 2005 by Dawny Bayu Amianto(Vocal) who is a former vocalist of Jun Fun Gung Foo and Marchell Arnold(Bass) who happened to have similar taste in music. They came up with an idea to form a “back to basic” ska band. A kind of ska that was born back in the 60s.
After a while, other names came up to fill in the line up. They were Rachmadian ’Dhani’ Ramdhani(Ex-Straightout), who was a blues influenced guitarist, Zendy Bramantya(Jun Fun Gung Foo) and Zenis(In Ska We Trust) to fill in for the saxophones, Wally on drums and Dama ‘Ceky’ Mandey(7 Deadly Sins) as a keyboardist.
The name The Authentics was instantly found and agreed to be the name of the band in the beginning of the first rehearsal. It was because we wanted to have the authentic sound just as the first wave ska bands sounded like and also because we wanted to have the originality and the authenticity of our various characteristics, but yet still have the passion for unity in the band.
In 2007, Zenis resigned from the band to focus on his out of town work. And also Wally, who wanted to become a dentist in the other side of the island. Therefore, The Authentics needed to find other people to fill in as an additional player. Fajar Arifan(currently a drummer of Alexa) filled in for the drums for a few gigs but got too busy with his own band, so his place was taken over by Dias Darmawan(Maddening Pace’s drummer). As for the brass section, Agustinus ‘Dika’ Panji Mardika and Andreas ‘Ucok’ Pardede currently fill in for trumpet and trombone.
In the early days, The Authentics started their performance by covering songs from The Skatalites, Hepcat, The Slackers, Mr. T Bone, etc who are referred as a first-wave ska bands. As time goes by they started to make their own music. Writing danceable Ska songs that are simple, fun and friendly with a touch of Swing, Soul, and Blues, which are known to have the same root in music.
The Authentics are currently recording an album that is planned to be released in around March-April 2010. Keep yourselves updated! Cause one thing to know for sure-It is guaranteed that the music of The Authentics will move your heart and soul to get your asses off the chairs, on your feet and to shake ‘em ALL NIGHT LONG!
Group ini berdiri pada Juni 2009 di Jakarta. Terdiri dari kakak beradik Yudhi (vocal & drum) dan Destha (guitar), teman sekampus Miki (guitar) dan Reza (bass). Pada tahun 1999, Yudhi dan Miki pernah mendirikan group duo bernama Buffe, yang pada tahun 2004 mengeluarkan album selftitled dibawah label Resswara Music Indonesia (RMI). Pada akhir tahun 2003 Yudhi jg bergabung dengan group emo-punk bernama Soulfulsonic bersama Destha dan Reza. Menyadari bahwa music pop memiliki keanekaragaman warna, Yudhi, Destha, Miki, dan Reza sepakat bergabung dalam satu band, dan mengambil elemen musik pop yang lebih fun dan sing along. Sinatera terinspirasi oleh Benfolds Five, Harvey’s danger, Billy Joel, The Buggles, The Beatlles, dll. Mereka ingin merasakan nostalgia atmosfer music pop era 80’an, pada masa Vina panduwinata membawakan lagu-lagu karya (alm) Dodo zakaria dan juga karya-karya dari mendiang Chrisye. Sinatera mengangkat tema lagu berdasarkan dari kehidupan sosial dan film.
Hear the music, sing with SINATERA…
Thanks to UCMJ (an official music and dance community of Atma Jaya University Jakarta, Indonesia) that helped these quite long story began and continues, because all of the former and current members of the band were also the part of this community.
Early 2003, Anthon, Nico and Arya decided to form a band that inspired by the british-rock music such as radiohead, muse, placebo and coldplay. it was called "susukentalmanis (SKM)". At that time, Bass and drums position filled by the additional players.
Late 2003, Rofan asked to join with the band as a permanent player. Not so long after, Hendra also asked to join with the band. But in the early 2005 there were a problem with the early vision of the band,so then 'susukentalmanis (SKM)' becomes to an end.
But because Anthon, hendra and Rofan were still got the same vision to play music together, so then in the late 2006 they recruited Andy to start a new band and they call themself "NOL".
But again in the early 2007 there were a problem with the early vision of the band,so then "NOL" becomes to an end.But because Anthon, Rofan and Andy were still got the same vision to play music together, they decided to start a new band again on Mid 2007 and they call themself "STEREO CONSPIRACY".
Mid 2008, they recruited Andreas "Pudel" into the family to held the position as a permanent bassist.
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Dried Cassava was founded in Jakarta 14 April 2005, by 4 students from Pangudi Luhur high school; Baskoro Adhi Juwono, Nandie Daniel Febrian, Bana Drestanda, And Kago Mahardono. Dried Cassava is influence by the sound of funk blues alternative rock. The band began with playing Rage Against The Machine, INCUBUS, RADIOHEAD songs in music event at Jakarta music event. On the next year, Dried Cassava start to create their own songs. On 2007, Dried Cassava record 3 songs for CD demo “Be Myself”, “New Life”, “This Life is Full of Pressure.”
On 2008, Dried Cassava was involved in LA Lights Indiefest 2008, their song “Be Myself” was 100 top list in LA Lights Indiefest. On mid-2009, “Be Myself” was the number 1 in Indopendent chart at 101.4 TraxFm radio. Dried Cassava was on the chart for 7 weeks in a row. Now, after 4 years Dried Cassava live in Indonesia indie music industries their began to make their first album. On this year, all the album material is complete and Dried Cassava will enter the recording studio in mid-2010.
Wait and see!
Baskoro Adhi Juwono - Vocal,Guitar
Netherland/13 December 1989, Male.
Influence by Silverchair, Tori Amos , bob dylan.
Music background Alternative rock, Ethnic blues, Funk.
Nandie Daniel Febrian - Lead guitar
Jakarta/21 February 1989, Male.
Influence by Radiohead, Incubus, Extreme .
Music background Alternative rock, Funk, Blues.
Bana Drestanta - Bass
Jakarta/13 December 1988, Male.
Influence by Muse, Placebo.
Music background Alternative rock, Funk, Electronic rock.
Kago Mahardono - Drum
Jakarta/7 November 1989, Male.
Influence by Dream Theater, Incubus.
Music background Progressive rock, Alternative rock, Funk.
Just be a fan of Dried Cassava in: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dried-Cassava/19408157647?ref=ts
For contact information and booking agent, please contact:
- Nicky Sutandi : 081932430110
- Rizki Caesar : 085692671185/ 021-98500780
http://www.myspace.com/driedcassavajakarta
Menu' Hentiasanti is the vocalist. Along her journey, she has experienced as backing vocal with several musicians such as Maliq & d'Essentials, Marcell, Andien, etc. She is a lead singer for Bali Lounge 2. Currently she performs regularly at BlackCat, a jazz-club in Jakarta where she sings jazz-standard and bossanova tunes.
Aldhan Prasatya is the keyboardist. He currently joins 2 bands, namely Storia & Jazzyphonic and also a session player in RAN. He has a chip tune band called dzytrx.
Somewhere along their way they met, chatted, and agreed to make an easy listening pop music project yet in their unique own way. They called it sunshine club. This is their work. More will come up soon. Hopefully it can brighten up your day.
Check this out : http://www.myoyeah.com/lalights2009.php?cID=11&aID=441
Contact us : menu.hentiasanti@gmail.com
Formed in the middle of ’98, we start experienced the sound of many bands that we know from our parents. For a couple of years we played those songs, we kind a bored and start making our own sounds and music till now. Basically were just playing a simple rock and maybe with a little touch of blues, funk, and a little bit of light jazz …you decide
Flyafter is a group of creative artists who have chosen music as their work of art. Flyafter was formed back in the year 2004, which at that moment the band had to survive with only 2 personnel. They were Hanan and Rully. The two of them have been best friends and played music together since their early years. Along with their developing skills, they started to create and modification music art. That before they decided to make their own kind of music. They used to play British Indie and Norwegian Alternatives type of music when they started out as a band. The reason was because there were only the two of them and they were using computerized effects and additional sound for their music. Eventually they have created 3 songs of their own, which have been recorded and have became their masterpiece for their live performances. They described their music as the combination of acoustic and electronic. That is why their friends described them as electronic music group. Their demos have been played on air all over Jakarta, Bandung, and Yogyakarta. And also in those cities,they were often asked to perform there. In the year 2005, Flyafter recruited another personnel,whose name was also Rully. But everybody called him, "A'a".
A'a had a major roll in making Flyafter to become more alive.From that moment, the band was making progress. Until finally Flyafter has formed its own management. In the year 2008, the band stopped its activities, in order for all the personnel to finish their college education. But one year later,the band was back in business. The band even created and performed more than ever, that was for the fans from all over the world. For the record, the band has done wrapping their first album,"make me sleep".
You can find Flyafter's address and phone number given in their profile if any of you would like to contact them.
Thanks for your response ,,
Enjoy Flyafter ,, Enjoy our music ,,
Soon Flyafter Limited EP album "Make me sleep" on early 2010....
FLYAFTER CONTACT PERSON :
Flyafter Band Members Contact : Hannan (0815-863-17800), (Hannanjaya@live.com)
Flyafter Media Publication :
Echa (Echa_adisapoetra@hotmail.com) or Rully ( rully_luandri@yahoo.com )
Flyafter Visualizator : Tio
or for another info just go to this link..
http://www.myspace.com/flyafter
