Parisude, a duo consisting Yudhistira Mirza and Amanda Chittara, has some thing for us to answer this question: “How important the nationalism is?”. They offer elegant music combined with traditional ambience and modern equipment. Fusing electronica with ethnicity. They call their music as Indonesian Pop or Universal Ethnic. Mirza is the man behind unique tones of Parisude, he plays guitar and also synthetizer and Chitta is the vocal and lyric writer, sometimes play the gamelan and dance in a song or two. The gamelan is taking us to next level of the answer. There is so many sound of traditional music: angklung, suling bambu, kendang gong, rapalan mantra, and the list could go on and on. Do not forget the name Parisude itself is taken from Sanskrit.

Maybe their experience when studying in Malaysia made them has this thing. They tried to make something local to bring in to the global world. Mirza manually collected Indonesian instrument sound because there is only a few softwares to build the sound of ethnicity. Chitta also tried to learn her singing technique to be more folk, folk as in Indonesia traditional pentathonic way. This is more interesting fact, they released their single on the Proclamation Day one year a go. It went by the title “Di Bawah Langit Yang Sama”. You could guess what is inside it. Yap, strong music and deep lyric. Local and global at the same time.

They also has released their first album, Trikaya. It officialy released 31^st May 2013 at Dia.Lo.Gue Artspace, South Jakarta. Eleven songs of track list and contains collaboration with A.F.F.E.N, Kunokini, and Anindya Dimas.

Here is what we actually ought to do. Support for this kind of music and let them explore their music. We could point out another local acts who have traditional instruments to enrich their tones: Kunokini, Nada Fiksi, Mr. Sonjaya, Teman Sebangku, Bunga Rampai. We support them to fill their lack of bravery so they could challenge themselves to use more local sound. One of the things to help us in commemorating the historic day and Indonesian roots.

Happy Independence Day! Live long and prosper, Indonesia!

Twitter: @parisude
Soundcloud: Parisude
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You probably have read from Djakartamosphere’s twitter page that the tickets are selling fast or even worst have been sold out less than 2 days after their announcement about the events, but for those who haven’t heard about it, this what you’ve missed about; G Production collaborating with Rain Dogs Records, are making music concert concept tour for these three talented local Indonesian bands, Starts and Rabbit, Dialog Dini Hari, and White Shoes and The Couples Company, in three days, at three different cities. The tour itself will start from Bandung on March 6th, 2013 at Maja House, continue on the next day at Teater Garasi at Yogyakarta, and ended Taman Argo Bali on Macrh 6th, 2013. So if you really want to catch their live performance, you better make your reservation in a rush before its too late!

Suara Tujuh Nada:
G Production:
info@djakartartmosphere.com (081310081510)
www.djakartartmosphere.com

Bandung
Rabu, 6 Maret 2013, Pkl. 19.00
Maja House, Jl Sersan Bajuri 72 , Bandung
Reservasi: info@djakartartmosphere.com | 081310 081510

Yogyakarta
Kamis, 7 Maret 2013, Pkl. 19.30
Teater Garasi, Jl Bugisan Selatan 36 A, Tegal Kenongo, Yogjakarta
Tiket & Reservasi: Rp. 50.000 | Hani (0877 1991 1200 & 0857 4753 2000)

Bali
Jumat, 8 Maret 2013, Pkl. 19.00
Taman Agro, Jl. Hayam Wuruk 212, Denpasar, Bali
Tiket & Reservasi: Ticket box: Rp. 40.000 , On the spot: RP. 50.000
Idiom Garage: Jun (0878 6035 9544) & FBI Bali Radio: Rezka Fria (0857 7399 6701)