#asteriska

Welcome to New Music Taste, a series of music recommendation for your listening pleasure. Uploaded every weekend, also on a weekday for a special episode (optional). My usual taste in music is pop music and pop punk scene, but I always explore for new music because that’s what “New Music Taste” is all about.

Sunday, 03/09/2017

New Music Releases

...Ready For It? by Taylor Swift

Staying Up by Matoma, The Vamps

Sweet (Single Version) by Cigarettes After Sex

Better Days by Hedley

You Don’t Love Me Like Before by Adam Jensen

Music Discovery

Suit And Jacket by Judah & The Lion

Your Head As My Favourite Bookstore by eleventwelfth, Asteriska

Missing Pieces by Super American

Boyfriend by COIN

MakeDamnSure by Taking Back Sunday

Just last week @taylorswift released the lead single from her upcoming new album, Reputation, and the fans thought it was gonna take some time to listen to another piece of it. But in the last minute of this week, she released the second statement with a title, ...Ready For It?. It was revealed to be the opening track of her new album and possibly released only as a promotional single. The fans quickly claimed the song as BOP and I totally agreed with ‘em. Taylor Swift literally and figuratively saved this week’s new music releases.

That’s all I got for this episode. I hope you listen to these songs and if you love it, share ‘em with your friends.

Pro tip: If you have to sit around and do paperwork (e.g., your tax return), a full concert by a good band will make the task much more pleasant, LOL.  XD

Barasuara from Indonesia is a band we have featured once before, and we have also featured 2 of their lead singers’ solo music.

[Partial description from fb: Barasuara is a band from Indonesia, consisting of Iga Massardi (Vocals / Guitar), Gerald Situmorang (Bass), TJ Kusuma (Guitar), Asteriska (Vocal), Puti Chitara (Vocal) and Marco Steffiano (Drums). Formed in 2011 at Jakarta, Barasuara is a manifest of the voice of spirit and the freedom of thought for the people of Indonesia, combining an authentic music composition and beautifully haunting spoken lyrics in their mother language.]

In this concert from 2015, they are reinforced with a horn section and extra percussion. Super-tight band with a powerful vocal presentation!   =D

Let’s hear the title track from their 2019 album Pikiran dan Perjalanan (Mind and Travel), you just know they had a blast making this MV:

Following on from the previous post, let’s hear some of the solo music from members of the Indonesian band BARASUARA.  =D

First up, this is singer-songwriter Asteriska (Cabrini Asteriska 'ichyl' Widiantini) and Distance is the title track from her 2015 album. She has a 2nd album called Past Possessions from 2018.  Her music is acoustic folk, with originals and many covers in her repertoire. She also does some jazz singing, but I have heard any yet, just saw a few promo photos on fb. 

More links:  Asteriska Official,  Asteriska YouTube,  Asteriska SoundCloud

And here is the other female singer from Barasuara, this is Puti Chitara with her single from 2018, this is a gorgeous arrangement:

Vocals/Piano/Synth by Puti Chitara

Cello by Billy Aryo

Drum and Percussion Programmer by Enrico Octaviano

Persembahan Past Possessions dari @asteriska_

Karakter vokal yang hanya dimiliki penyanyi ini, kita seakan tahu persis bagaimana suara dan perawakannya. Daya imajinasi itu pun terbawa dalam album kedua persembahan Asteriska. (Dzulfikri Putra Malawi)

JAKARTA, 18 April 2018 – Karya-karya yang terbenam sejak lama, akhirnya dirampungkan dalam sebuah album bertajuk Past Possessions yang resmi dirilis hari ini. Banyak kisah cinta dan kehidupan…

Apasih yang pertama kali terlintas di pikiran kalian kalau dengar kata “Indie” atau “Band Indie”? Band kecil? Kualitas musik kurang? Kurang terkenal ? Kalau iya, mending mulai ilangin pemikiran kaya gitu mulai dari sekarang. Meski memang mereka nggak setenar band-band besar, tapi kualitas musik indie juga nggak bisa dipandang sebelah mata. Beberapa malah bisa dibilang punya “high quality” music…