Album Notes

About simakDialog’s music in general…

The 4th album of simakDialog (=to listen carefully to the Dialog) that’s just been released in March 2006 marks the persistency that the Band has chosen in defining its music direction. Even though its style is not merely new stuff nor new invention, the recent music style they are working on is different and worth to listen. “While I’m trying to find a way in making compositions, the assimilation between music harmony in general and the Indonesia archipelago’s rhythm becomes an inevitable experience..”, Riza Arshad, leader/composer of simakDialog explains. “Because we want to sound different we try to see our music from ‘unusual’ angle..”, Riza continues. “The result is something that partly you have heard and you have not. It is also quite a challenge and stimulating to be in that situation which affects the way I compose a song and play the music as well as my both aspects appetite. We hope the excitement is infectious as everyone listens to the music. And we address it for peace, equality and respect..”


About the album “patahan"

Faults utterly bring a whole different sense in our music as a point of “balancing act” to all the things we’ve experienced and struggled as it retrospects so much for what happened in the tsunami tragedy in Aceh 2005. The change might be quite significant, it gives us a new kind of ‘richness’ in our music. This album finally happened after a long pause just as naturally as the leaves fall from the trees.

This is a live recording performance in reopening the Goethe Haus performance hall in coinciding with the commemoration of the Acehnese victims of tsunami.

The recent formation is
Riza Arshad - piano, Rhodes, synths
Tohpati - acoustic and electric guitars
Endang Ramdan – Sundanese kendang, percussions
Adhitya – fretless bass
Emy Tata – Tunrung pakanjara (=Makassar kendang), kethuk, ceng ceng, claps, voice

Featuring
Nyak Ina Raseuki “Ubiet” – vocal