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SimakDialog: Demi Masa
by AAJ Italy Staff
Il gruppo indonesiano SimakDialog, guidato dal bravo tastierista Riza Arshad, giunge al suo quinto album e stacca un nuovo episodio convincente e ricco di pathos. Il rock progressivo si mischia al jazz e alle musiche orientali per una miscela che tiene sempre ben desta la nostra attenzione. Una dimostrazione di come il termine fusion, se ben ...
simakDialog: Demi Masa
by Chris M. Slawecki
simakDialog--the complex, electrifyingly joyous brainchild of guitarist Tohpathy and composer-keyboardist Riza Arshad--was born in the Indonesian capitol of Jakarta in 1993. Arshad, who wrote and produced all of Demi Masa, their fifth album, won Best Jazz Producer honors at the 2003 Indonesian Music Awards for simakDialog's album Trance/Mission (2002, Ragadi Music), also voted that year's Best ...
simakDialog: Demi Masa
by Gary Gomes
simakDialog's Demi Masa, one of the best releases of 2009, rejuvenates fusion music and takes it to an entirely new level.The soloists are extraordinarily good on this combination of guitars, electric bass guitar, and keyboards with Indonesian kedang percussion, assisted by percussionist/vocalist Emy Tata, singer Mian Tiara and soundscapist Dave Lumenta--but more on this ...
simakDialog: Demi Masa
by Glenn Astarita
The fifth album by this Indonesian unit offers a mélange of progressive jazz and cerebral rock, augmented by a highly entertaining form factor. Here, the Fender Rhodes electric piano resides as the primary musical voice as Riza Arshad toggles between it and acoustic piano, also using an ancient Oberheim analog synth for colorific textures. Moreover, Arshad ...
Patahan
By simakDialog
Label: MoonJune Records
Released: 2007
Track listing: One Has to Be; Spur of the Moment; Kemarau; Worthseeing; Kain Sigli.
simakDialog: Patahan
by John Kelman
Starting out closer to smooth jazz territory, Indonesian simakDialog ("to listen carefully to The Dialog) has come a long way since 1993 to get to Patahan, its first release to see international distribution. Based on the album's episodic and expansive opener, “One Has to Be, first impressions would suggest this Jakarta-based quintet is mining similar turf ...
