Tuesday, December 31, 2019

ADI BING SLAMET & IRA MAYA SOPHA - ADI & RIA / YUANITA BOEDIMAN - BLACK BROTHERS



Here's an 80's pop album, on the A side Adi Bing Slamet and Ira Maya Sopha and on the B side Yuanita Boediman, I think she's just singing songs from the Black Brothers, I don't think it's the Black Brothers playing on this album, doesn't sound like them at all....

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BLACK BROTHERS - MISTERI (VOL. 4)




Here's an album from the Black Brothers.....

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BLACK BROTHERS - ALBUM PERDANA




Here's an album from the Black Brothers....

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BLACK BROTHERS - LONCENG KEMATIAN (VOL. 3)




Here's an album from the Black Brothers....

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BLACK BROTHERS - DERITA TIADA AKHIR (VOL. 2)




Here's an album from the Black Brothers.....

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BLACK BROTHERS - IRIAN JAYA 1




Here's an album from the Black Brothers. Like I said, all these were promotional albums for radio stations and they came out without a cover, they came out only as cassettes and I'm giving the cassette cover here.....

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BLACK BROTHERS - HENING




Here's an album from the Black Brothers.... All these albums are promotional vinyl for radio stations, they all came out without a cover....

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BLACK BROTHERS - SPECIAL ALBUM


Cool cd from the Black Brothers....

From Wikipedia:

Black Brothers was a well-known West Papuan pop group from Jayapura. The band consisted of five members, led by Andy Ayamiseba. Their music, sung in Tok Pisin, and originally in Indonesian, included influences from reggae and political elements inspired by the Black Power movement. The group went into voluntary exile in Vanuatu in 1979, protesting Indonesian policies in West Papua. They later moved to Papua New Guinea.

Black Brothers were the most popular musical group in New Guinea during the 1980s. The reggae influences of the Black Brothers influenced various other musical groups in Papua New Guinea.

From what I understand they put out quiet a few albums when they were staying in Papua New Guinea, those I don't have and those are the albums where their reggae influences were the most strong, I've got some of their (extremely rare) albums that came out here in Indonesia and those albums are mostly pop songs with the occasional funk banger.....

As far as West-Papua goes.... I've written about that on this blog before.... Right now it's still closed off for journalists, things are pretty bad in Boven Digoel, I'll just give you this link if you are interested:



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THE BLACK PAPAS - VOLUME 2



Here's an album from the Black Papas, a 70's band from West-Papua....

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BLACK LISTS



Here's an album from the Black Lists, a 70's band from West-Papua....

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GOD SPELL - PROMO ALBUM



Here's the 1972 promo for radio record from Heavy Metal/Prog-rock band God Spell. Extremely rare this one. It was never released, not on vinyl, not on cassette, only the promo's.... Couple of heavy metal bangers, couple of ballads....

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Monday, December 30, 2019

UCOK HARAHAP - POP INDONESIA



Fantastic album from Ucok Harahap, yes, there's pop Indonesia songs on this one, and then there are some delicious funky psychedelics thrown in too....

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UCOK HARAHAP & YUKA'S GROUP - JALAN JALAN




Cool album from Ucok Harahap with the Yuka's Group, couple of cool funky songs on this one....

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WU YIN YING




Here's a 78 from Wu Yin Ying....

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TRIO THE KING'S / BAND 4 NADA



Here's an album from Trio The King's and Band 4 Nada.....

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BAND BENTOEL / TRIO THE KING'S





Now there's one thing I don't understand about this album, this album is all Band Bentoel, not sure what Trio The King's were doing on this one, maybe it was the Band Bentoel playing their songs?

Band Bentoel was a band from the city of Malang, they were put together by Tan Sian Soen, a manager at Indonesia's largest cigarette factory, Bentoel, they were a promotional band for the Bentoel cigarettes and they did many, many performances. Often Elvy Sukaesih, before she became famous as a dangdut singer would join them on stage, and Mickey Jaguar was their singer for a while and they put out this album:


With Emilia Contessa, Tetty Kadi, Anna Mathovani, Benyamin Sueb, Inneke Kusumawati and Eddy Kardianto (I'll dig it up and re-post it soon)....

And they also put this one out:


In the mean time, rock legend Ian Antono was making quiet a name for himself in Jakarta, and Tan Sian Soen invited him to join the Bentoel Band, which he did. The sound of the Bentoel Band changed a bit with the arrival of Ian, becoming a bit more rock oriented....

When the Bentoel factory changed their promotional policies the Bentoel Band dissolved and members Ian Antono and Teddy Sujaya joined God Bless, the band from that other rock legend, Achmad Albar....

If you're not familiar with God Bless:



And they still perform:



Anyway, the Bentoel band, here's a recent picture from Ian Antono with this album:


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SOME POSTCARDS AND PROMO MATERIAL FROM 60'S INDONESIAN POP STARS


TETTY KADI


ERNIE DJOHAN



ANITA TOURISIA


IDA ROYANI & VIVI SUMANTI




EMILIA CONTESSA


IDA ROYANI


IVON SUSAN