Pas gue lagi browsing di salah satu forum film, eh ada yg ngebahas serial drama legendaris ini. Langsung gue buka Youtube, cari video-nya, eh nemu banyak ! Wuhuu. Ini serial bener-bener membekas banget di otak gue sampe skrg, padahal gue nonton pertama kali pas SD.

Soundtrack-nya itu jadi salah satu lagu favorit gue sepanjang masa, judul lagunya itu Rabusuto Ri Wa Totsuzen dinyanyikan oleh Oda Kazumasa. Masih sering banget gue puter ini lagu di I-Pod atau di komputer gue kalo lagi suntuk sama lagu-lagu baru. Dan cerita dari Tokyo Love Story juga mantep berat. Walau endingnya agak kurang happy sih.

Bagi yg gatau serial ini atau yg gatau soundtracknya yg legendaris itu, wah kmana aja ??? Dan bagi yg pengen nostalgia, nih gue kasih videonya. Dijamin yg inget bakalan kangen sama jaman-jaman dulu. Hehehe.

Lagu yg khusus saya tujukan untuk seluruh wanita di seantero Indonesia.
Selamat Hari Kartini ! Teruskan perjuangan beliau.

Kamipun sebagai kaum lelaki jujur mengakui bahwa tidak bisa hidup tanpa sosok wanita.

And happy birthday to my late grandmother. I know you're smiling to me up there :)

White Shoes & The Couples Company - Sabda Alam
cipt. Tn Ismail Marzuki

Diciptakan alam pria dan wanita
Dua makhluk dalam asuhan dewata
Ditakdirkan bahwa pria berkuasa
Adapun wanita lemah lembut manja

Wanita dijajah pria sejak dulu
Dijadikan perhiasan sangkar madu
Namun ada kala pria tak berdaya
Tekuk lutut di kerling wanita

Apakah terlalu muluk-muluk jika saya memberi julukan kepada band ini sebagai : BAND PENYELAMAT BANGSA !

Saya kira tidak, karena setelah mendengarkan keseluruhan track dari album debut mereka yg diberi titel nama band mereka sendiri, saya menemukan suatu pengalaman musik yg sudah lama tidak saya rasakan ketika mendengarkan album-album musisi atau band lokal akhir-akhir ini. Pengalaman musik yg WOW ! Mungkin terasa hampir sama sensasi-nya ketika saya mendengarkan album SORE - Centralismo beberapa tahun yg lalu.

Efek Rumah Kaca bukan hanya berhasil membuat suatu musik yg brilian, tetapi lewat lirik-lirik cerdas dalam lagu-lagu di album ini (catat : semua lirik berbahasa Indonesia), mereka berhasil membuka mata kita lebar-lebar bahwa kehidupan di masa sekarang sudah jauh melenceng dari jalur kehidupan bermanusia normal. Semua serba bergantung dan terseret dengan arus teknologi, konsumerisme dan urban culture. Mereka bisa menyebarkan pesan-pesan penuh makna tanpa terkesan menggurui. Mereka dengan bebas mengkritisi hal-hal yg sudah berjalan tidak semestinya dengan sangat brilian melalui lirik-lirik yg sederhana namun mengena.

Dalam album perdana-nya ini, Efek Rumah Kaca mengangkat hampir semua topik di kehidupan lewat lagu-lagunya.

Di lagu Belanja Terus Sampai Mati, mereka dengan gamblang memaparkan bagaimana tingkat konsumerisme masyarakat urban sudah mencapai titik yg sangat meresahkan.
”Atas bujukan setan, hasrat dan terjebak zaman
”Kita belanja terus sampai mati”

Di lagu Cinta Melulu mereka mengkritisi band-band lokal (atas tuntutan pasar) yg makin kesini makin gemar membuat lagu bertemakan cinta dengan melodi dan lirik yg sangat komersil.
“Lagu cinta melulu
Kita memang benar-benar Melayu
Suka mendayu-dayu
Lagu cinta melulu
Apa memang karena kuping Melayu?
Suka yang sendu-sendu”

Di lagu Di Udara, mereka mendedikasikan lagu ini untuk almarhum Munir, seorang pahlawan di dunia perpolitikan Indonesia yg akhirnya harus “dihilangkan” demi kepentingan negara.
Aku bisa diracun di udara
Aku bisa terbunuh di trotoar jalan
Tapi aku tak akan pernah mati
Tak akan berhenti
Aku bisa dibuat menderita
Aku bisa dibuat tak bernyawa
Dikursilistrikan ataupun ditikam...”

Album ini ditutup oleh sebuah lagu penenang hati berjudul Desember. Mendengarkan lagu ini seakan kita terbawa terbang ke dunia baru dimana semua terlihat lebih cerah, damai dan membawa kita hanya memikirkan hal yg positif saja. Lagu yg membuat pikiran saya terawang-awang dan diakhiri dengan senyum kecil.
“Seperti pelangi setia menunggu hujan reda
Aku selalu suka sehabis hujan di bulan Desember
Di bulan Desember...
Sampai nanti ketika hujan tak lagi
Meneteskan duka meretas luka
Sampai hujan memulihkan luka...”

Sebuah album yg bisa membuat bulu kuduk saya merinding. Sebuah album yg mampu membuat saya terharu bahwa industri musik Indonesia akan kembali terselamatkan oleh mereka di tengah serbuan band-band yg tidak jelas junjrungannya. Sebuah album yg mampu membius saya untuk menjadikan mereka salah satu lokal favorit saya sepanjang masa. Sebuah album yg memaksa saya untuk bersabar demi menyaksikan aksi panggung mereka secepatnya.

Sebuah album yg fantastis.

Titis Sapto Raharjo
15 Februari 2008
04:55 AM

And it's always... You and me always, and forever !

Salah satu lagu sepanjang masa yg gak bakal pernah bosen gue dengerinnya, pas nonton video klip-nya gue jadi senyum senyum sendiri. Great songs, great lyrics and nice clips.

Always when we fight
I try to make you laugh
Til everything's forgotten
I know you hate that

ba ba da da ba ba ba ba (2x)

Always when we fight
I kiss you once or twice
And everything's forgotten
I know you hate that

I love you Sunday song
The week's not yet begun
And everything is quiet
And it's always...

You and me always, and forever
You and me always, and forever
ba ba ba ba da ba, it was always
You and me always..

You tell me I'm a real man
and try to look impressed
Not very convincing
But you know I love it

Now we watch TV
Til we fall asleep
Not very exciting
But it's you and...

Me and we'll always be together
You and me always, and forever
ba ba ba ba da ba, it was always...
You and me always, and forever
You and me always, and forever
ba ba ba ba da ba, it was always...
You and me always, and forever
You and me always, and forever
ba ba ba ba da ba ba....
ba ra ra

Barusan ngupload lagu Daniel yg Love You Lately, gue langsung keingetan sama lagu ini, setelah gue denger ulang, gue tonton video-nya. Damn ! Ini lagu emang klasik banget. Salah satu lagi masterpiece yg tercipta di taun 2000an.

Enjoy !

Where is the moment we needed the most
You kick up the leaves and the magic is lost
You tell me your blue skies fade to grey
You tell me your passion's gone away
And I don't need no carryin' on

You stand in the line just to hit a new low
You're faking a smile with the coffee to go
You tell me your life's been way off line
You're falling to pieces everytime
And I don't need no carryin' on

Cause you had a bad day
You're taking one down
You sing a sad song just to turn it around
You say you don't know
You tell me don't lie
You work at a smile and you go for a ride
You had a bad day
The camera don't lie
You're coming back down and you really don't mind
You had a bad day
You had a bad day

Well you need a blue sky holiday
The point is they laugh at what you say
And I don't need no carryin' on

You had a bad day
You're taking one down
You sing a sad song just to turn it around
You say you don't know
You tell me don't lie
You work at a smile and you go for a ride
You had a bad day
The camera don't lie
You're coming back down and you really don't mind
You had a bad day

(Oh.. Holiday..)

Sometimes the system goes on the blink
And the whole thing turns out wrong
You might not make it back and you know
That you could be well oh that strong
And I'm not wrong (yeah, yeah, yeah, yeeeah)

So where is the passion when you need it the most
Oh you and I
You kick up the leaves and the magic is lost

Cause you had a bad day
You're taking one down
You sing a sad song just to turn it around
You say you don't know
You tell me don't lie
You work at a smile and you go for a ride
You had a bad day
You've seen what you like
And how does it feel for one more time
You had a bad day
You had a bad day

(Oh, yeah, yeaaah, yeah)
Had a bad day
(Oh, had a bad day)
Had a bad day
(Oh, yeah, yeah, yeeeeah)
Had a bad day
(Oh, had a bad day)
Had a bad day...
Had a bad day...

Setelah Sister Duke dan Soulvibe, RAN adalah salah satu band pendatang baru yg gue prediksi bakal bersinar di tahun ini.

Great music ! Dengerin albumnya ga bosen-bosen tuh sampe skrg. Hehehe.

Band Members

Astono Andoko / Asta (Guitar)

Rayi Putra / Rayi (Rap)

Anindyo Baskoro / Nino (Vocal)

With great support from our friends :

Rendi Kopay (Bass)

Belanegara Abe (Percussion)

Ildo Reynardian (Drums)

Biatriasa Yayas (Keys, Synth)

Promosi.. Promosi..

Band ini merupakan projek dari Nengah Krisnarini, yg di-band ini bertindak sebagai vocals, programming, songwriter, producer.

Born at the end of 1981 to Balinese-Minangkabau parents, Nengah Krisnarini discovered her passion for music at an early age; singing random melodies and lyrics which usually bothered her older brother at the time because he did not recognize any of them. It turned out that she wasn’t singing someone else’s songs, they were hers.

Later in middle school, her classmates recognized her soothing yet strong voice and asked her to join his band. In 1997, she won the best vocalist title in Tawuran Musik Levi’s, a band festival held by a very famous radio station in Indonesia. She also received similar title during her study in Australia from “Terbaik”, a band competition for Indonesian students in Sydney.

She wrote a few songs during that period, yet not until she gained her bachelor degree and got back to Indonesia that she realized her potential in songwriting and decided to take it more seriously. She also developed an interest in music programming after listening to some remixes on Jazz standards. This lead her to Sister Duke, which was initially a duo formed in 2005 with one of her fellow band mates while in Sydney. But after a year of musical journey in Sister Duke together, her partner decided to pull out. Feeling the urge to continue the legacy, Sister Duke then became her solo project.

Aware of her own shortcomings at playing musical instruments, she invited Doni Yudawan Joesran, a talented jazz pianist to fill the void. After working together for a while, they realized that they shared the same frequency in music, hence Doni agreed when Nengah asked him to help her out even further as a keyboardist and music arranger for her solo project. In November 2007, Sister Duke’s debut album “Highlight of the Day” which she produced herself was released.

Being greatly inspired by her loved ones, her endeavor in music is to quench the musical thirst of those who have faith in her.

For booking or further information:
Ferryanto Tobing
+6281315706570
Dedi Abdurahman
+6281510065061 | +6292455813
sisterduke@yahoo.com

Satu lagi band baru ciamik dalam belantika musik Indonesia.
Please welcome, SOULVIBE.

Udah ga perlu diragukan, musiknya mantep abis
bisa buat bergoyang dan santai juga.
penampilan panggungnya oke banget !
albumnya baru aja dirilis.
single-nya dah keluar di radio, Arti Hadirmu.

Soulvibe are :
Rizqi Rizaldi.Abenk
on vocal

Bayu Adiputra
on vocal

Ramadhan Handy
on bass

Muhammad Caesar Rizal
on drums, percussion

Frans Martatko
on piano, synthesizer

Adrianto Ario Seto
on synthesizer / electric percussion

Adhika Winasis
on guitar

Mau launching tanggal 4 Februari nanti di Hard Rock Cafe, gue insya allah dateng !

Watch Raul Midon only @ JavaJazz Festival 2008.
Saturday March 8, 2008, Cendrawasih 2 & 3
Sunday March 9, 2008, Cendrawasih 2 & 3

Raul Midon brings a vibrant sound steeped in classic soul to the pop arena, because pop is where a singer and a song can have the biggest and most widespread impact. When an envelope-pushing song becomes a pop hit, it shifts the entire musical landscape, forcing out the shopworn and clich?d while opening the windows of change to let in fresh ideas. The notion of shifting the landscape is this artist's passion; the wide-ranging skill sets he brings to bear on his mission provide him with the tools to pull it off.

The New Mexico-born, New York-based writer/vocalist/guitarist burst onto the scene in 2005 with his audaciously original debut album, State of Mind, and he's followed it up with an even more memorable song cycle, one that substantiates the depth of his talent and the degree of his dedication. A World Within a World, the title of the new album (Manhattan Records, Sept. 25), might refer to the status of pop music within the culture as a whole; it could also describe the expansive interior realm that this single-minded artist, blind from birth, has created with his imagination.Midon is bringing currency to a rich tradition of pop inventiveness, combining the beguiling soulfulness of Stevie Wonder, the inventive appropriation of non-indigenous musical elements pioneered by Paul Simon and the trend-defying individuality of Bill Withers. "These are mainstream artists who were on the charts and making art," Midon notes. "There isn't that much originality in pop these days, because everybody is trying to sound like what they think might fit into the narrow formats on radio. But the best pop is as important as much as any music. I mean, I love Paul Simon or James Taylor or Prince as much as I love Miles." With A World Within a World, Midon aims to do his part to replant the pop wilderness.

In the pop field, says Midon, with what turns out to be characteristic outspokenness, "You have to think about your audience, and at the same time make music that's interesting to you as an artist. If something you hate becomes successful, you still have to play it every night, and that's no way to live. Because my first record was successful enough to satisfy the label, and because of the quality of the people I'm working with, we made the second album exactly the way we wanted to make it, which is pretty extraordinary in this day and age. There was no interference, no 'Where's the single?' We didn't go through any of that."

The album's diversity is manifested with brio in the beguiling settings. The opening "Pick Somebody Up," which could serve as Midon's credo, embeds a theme of uplifting social consciousness in an insinuating groove and the sort of lush, uptown soulfulness that distinguished the career-defining albums of Stevie Wonder and Marvin Gaye. The multitracked acappella piece "Ain't Happened Yet" references the the immediacy of street-corner doo-wop and the exuberance of the Beatles. "Save My Life" updates the silky '70s soul of the Stylistics and Delfonics, interpolated with the deep funk of the same period courtesy of Midon's wah-wah electric guitar part.

Midon focuses on another era altogether in "All the Answers," as he celebrates the ease of access to a vast universe of information thanks to the Internet; indeed, this may be the first lyric to specifically reference Googling. "When I grew up, you had to go to the library to find out about something," he points out. "The impact of the flow of information that we have today is impossible to overestimate-and what really fascinates me is, then, what do we choose to want to find out about? Time is finite, and I can't imagine spending my time on trivia-I just won't do it."


Just as unprecedented is "The More That I Know," which is equal parts love song, message song and modern-day spiritual. "On one level," Midon explains, "the song has to do with traveling-'The more that I know, wherever I go, I want to be close to you'-but it also uses metaphors in a different way. I've always felt at a disadvantage as someone who has never seen in that writing is very visual and image-driven. People really relate to images, and I've never seen images. So what I realized is that you have to write from what you know, and because people also hear, touch and feel, hopefully, they'll be able to relate to these songs. So that song is me starting to get into another way of writing-it's very much about my experience, and not trying to describe a sunset that I've never seen."

References to the perilous world we live in abound on A World Within a World. "Tembererana," which employs elements of Argentinean music, pits images of the threat of looming annihilation against "the power of creation." "The More That I Know" ponders metaphysical questions like "Why do the children suffer so?" And the culminating "Peace on Earth" places the radical humanism of John Lennon's "Imagine" in an unsettling contemporary context. "I got a few people accusing me of being na?ve on the first album-I don't think I'll get that this time," says Midon with a quick laugh.

Midon was born in Embudo, N.M., to an Argentinean father and an African-American mother. A passionate music lover for as long as he can remember, Midon started playing drums at age 4 before shifting his focus to the guitar. He turned down a scholarship in creative writing offered by the University of New Mexico after being selected by the University of Miami for its highly regarded jazz program. Staying in Miami after graduating, Midon became an in-demand backup singer, working primarily on Latin projects for artists like Julio Iglesias, Shakira and Alejandro Sanz, while moonlighting as a club performer, sprinkling the requisite cover songs with the original tunes he was starting to write.

On the city's stages, he diligently honed his craft as a singer, writer and guitarist, developing a syncopated, flamenco- and jazz-infused approach to the steel-stringed acoustic.

In 2002, when Midon felt he was ready, he walked away from his lucrative profession in order to pursue a solo career in New York City. "I wanted to become an artist and do what I wanted to do instead of being someone else's hired gun," he explains. When Midon performed for the legendary producer/arranger Arif Mardin, fresh off the recording of Norah JonesÕ breakthrough album, Come Away With Me, he offered the newcomer a deal on the spot-it would be the final signing of Mardin's long career. Ra?l readily accepted, eager to form a partnership with the highly skilled veteran and with Arif's multi-instrumentalist son Joe. Father and son co-produced State of Mind, which garnered critical accolades for its heady fusion of old-school soul, timeless pop, Latin, jazz and the singer/songwriter idiom.
Intrigued by what the youngster was cooking up, Wonder himself appeared on one track.

For A World Within a world, recorded after the death of the elder Mardin, Midon and Joe Mardin tightened the focus, with Joe laying down the grooves and playing additional instruments behind Midon's vocals and guitar parts on the majority of the tracks. "Like his father, Joe is a producer in the old-school sense of the word," says Midon. "He's interested in how a record sounds; he can do arrangements and conduct an orchestra-which he did on 'Pick Somebody Up.' Joe brought the value of making an album to the project, as opposed to just a collection of songs."

This is not your average pop record-not by a long shot. With A World Within a World, Midon has fashioned an album that is at once audacious and accessible, of the moment and suffused with history; it's personal yet universal, uncompromising yet inviting. This is that rare sort of pop album that could actually make a difference, and as such, it stands right alongside the pivotal works of the artists who inspired it.

Start:	Feb 23, '08
End:	Feb 24, '08
Location:	Carnival Beach Ancol Bay City, Jakarta

Wuihhh salah satu festival musik keren juga nih di taun ini, bisa dibilang ini festival udah agak bisa menyaingi Zookout, manteplah Indonesia ! Semoga bisa dibuat rutin taunan.

Selain ada Van Dyk, Belle & Sebastian, ada performance dari mbah-nya Cafe Del Mar, Jose Padilla.

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