Here's AKA's 1975 mega-rare album Shake Me, many, many people looking for this one, mostly because of the heavy funk title track Shake Me....
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This one connected with me the moment the started playing. In these digital days, I don’t understand how any recording can be rare or hard/impossible to find. That’s what makes blogs like this so important. I shudder to think how many recordings would otherwise be lost to time.
Well, AKA was actually a big flop at the time. After a few albums with pop, heavy metal and funk songs didn't sell the record company forced them to make much softer music and they didn't sell either and Ucok Harahap left the band ands started the more successful band Duo Kribo with Achmad Albar and the rest of AKA went on to form the band SAS, so there weren't that many albums pressed from AKA....
This one connected with me the moment the started playing. In these digital days, I don’t understand how any recording can be rare or hard/impossible to find. That’s what makes blogs like this so important. I shudder to think how many recordings would otherwise be lost to time.
ReplyDeleteWell, AKA was actually a big flop at the time. After a few albums with pop, heavy metal and funk songs didn't sell the record company forced them to make much softer music and they didn't sell either and Ucok Harahap left the band ands started the more successful band Duo Kribo with Achmad Albar and the rest of AKA went on to form the band SAS, so there weren't that many albums pressed from AKA....
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