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SINGLE BARU SAJAMA CUT 2010

Setelah 5 tahun lalu merilis album The Osaka Journals (“1 dari 5 album terbaik dekade 2000” menurut The Jakarta Post), Sajama Cut kembali dengan single terbaru mereka yang berjudul PAINTINGS/PANTINGS pada Maret 2010 ini.



Lagu berkarakter Baroque Pop ini mengedepankan harmonisasi vokal ala Beach Boys era “Surf’s Up” serta aransemen ala Van Dyke Parks di album “Song Cycle” dan Lee Hazlewood di album “Requiem For An Almost Lady” yang banyak menggunakan seksi brass seperti Terompet Perancis, String quartet, perkusi-perkusi unik, dan instrument-instrumen lain yang masih jarang digunakan oleh musisi-musisi lokal kita.



Lirik non-konvensional dan bernuansa abstrak dalam bahasa inggris yang sempurna masih menjadi ciri dari band yang beranggotakan Marcel Thee, Dion Panlima Reza, Randy Apriza Akbar, Hans Citra, Andreas Humala, dan Banu Satrio ini.



Seperti selalu, band yang memainkan jenis musik mulai dari indie rock, folk pop, elektronika, ambient, sunshine pop, dan chamber pop ini mengedepankan kedinamisan musikal mereka yang tanpa limitasi - Sekali lagi Sajama Cut bereksperimen dengan pengaruh-pengaruh musik dan seni yang baru.



PAINTINGS/PANTINGS adalah single pertama dari album ketiga Sajama Cut, MANIMAL yang akan dirilis pada akhir April 2010 melalui The Bronze Medal Records dengan distribusi dari DeMajors.



PAINTINGS/PANTINGS is a free download for everybody who wants to listen.
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He wanders among misty bogs turned surreal

"He wanders among misty bogs turned surreal, he talks to the wee folk of his own bad dreams, he files reports on introspected black visions with a kind of blarney eloquence. Like an actress cradling a doll for her stage baby, his language keens and croons about tales that are not quite there." Melvin Maddocks is talking about Samuel Beckett, a literary legend of the twentieth century. "It is neither night nor morning. A man must find himself without the support of groups, or labels, or slogans," writes R. D. Smith. And Beckett, by removing his characters from nearly all recognizable contexts, Smith continues, is "engaged in finding or saving" himself. Martin Esslin writes: "What is the essence of the experience of being? asks Beckett. And so he begins to strip away the inessentials. What is the meaning of the phrase 'I am myself'? he asks . . . and is then compelled to try to distinguish between the merely accidental characteristics that make up an individual and the essence of his self." A Time reviewer noted: "Some chronicle men on their way up; others tackle men on their way down. Samuel Beckett stalks after men on their way out."

Closer to the sound of it

Thanks for your patience. Next week.

Blackened

Lucy begins to waste away suspiciously. All her suitors fret, and Seward calls in his old teacher, Professor Abraham Van Helsing from Amsterdam. Van Helsing immediately determines the cause of Lucy's condition but refuses to disclose it, knowing that Seward's faith in him will be shaken if he starts to speak of vampires. Van Helsing tries multiple blood transfusions, but they are clearly losing ground. On a night when Van Helsing must return to Amsterdam (and his message to Seward asking him to watch the Westenra household is accidentally sent to the wrong address), Lucy and her mother are attacked by a wolf. Mrs Westenra, who has a heart condition, dies of fright, and Lucy apparently dies soon after.

Lucy is buried, but soon afterward the newspapers report children being stalked in the night by a "bloofer lady" (as they describe it), i.e. "beautiful lady".^[2] Van Helsing, knowing that this means Lucy has become a vampire, confides in Seward, Lord Godalming and Morris. The suitors and Van Helsing track her down, and after a disturbing confrontation between her vampiric self and Arthur, they stake her heart, behead her, and fill her mouth with garlic

2 GIRLS IN A BED

2 girls in a bed by Jareth AladdinSane

is my favorite artwork to think in a middle of the night everyday

Digital Love

We are in the midst of the digital age. There are no flying cars, robot servants, and our houses are not orbiting above ground. The same stench of pollution and smog-filled skies still occupy our daily lives. For a while, it seemed like the future had us all fooled.

Thankfully, the thing the future did give us holds such an intrinsic value, that the other entire futuristic letdown seems miniscule in comparison.

This is what the post-millennial world is currently offering us: a constant stream of digital artistry in the form of limitless music. It’s time to give our ears some pampering.

Gone are the days when you had to travel to another country to buy an album that was not released in your homeland e.g. Indonesia. Those days when you had to purchase a luxuriously-priced CD single with your monthly allowance simply for that one song from your favorite band? Those days are no more. Perhaps – if you’re old enough – you remember leafing through imported music magazines and drooling for an album after reading a glowing review of it? These days, you would not even have to reach further than your computer or cellular-phone to have the album delivered to your doorsteps in a day or two.

In fact, you would not even have to leaf through a “magazine” any longer. These days, the artists’ mind is just a click away. The numerous webzines dedicated to covering music is numerous. Not to mention personally-maintained band blogs. You can visit a site like the Royal Artist Club and obtain exclusive news straight from the horse’s mouth, so to speak. The olden days of trying to figure out the lyrics to a song printed in superscripted text on the back of an album sleeve is today replaced with musicians informing you what they had for dinner last night – either through their blog or through hip mediums such as Twitter.

On the road and without access to a PC or your laptop – but you really need to hear a song right now? The mobile apparatus of today knows no boundaries. You could literally be almost anywhere around the world and have access to the most obscure song.

Needing that fix of Beatles rarities while having tea in a remote café in West Java? Perhaps you would like to bang your head to the newest Interpol song while you’re stuck studying for tomorrow’s exam in your dorm room in Kyoto? It takes a second to purchase or download for free those tracks onto your iPod or Mobile gadget from websites such as Nokia.co.id/layanan/musik

There is always that small quandary – many old school music fans believe the fact that everything is within reach drives away the intrinsic purpose of the art of music. The mysteriousness of certain bands is no longer possible in these day and age where every form of information is just a click away. And there is no denying the rampant ness of illegal downloads and album leaks.

Regardless of where one stands in the argument for or against the increasing availability of music (remember when indie rock band Pavement sang “There are too many bands”), one must be quiet the pessimist to not believe that the internet age has given us so much good music that during any other time would have had no chance of being heard. The word-of-mouth travels faster than ever before, and today, everybody and every musician get a chance to shine. If you’re not yet a musician, there is better time to be one than today.

Somebody, a long time ago said “Music should be free.” Perhaps we haven’t reached that plateau, but we’re getting closer than ever before.

http://www.nokia.co.id/layanan/musik

http://www.royalartistclub.com