The 12th anniversary celebration of The Brandal is coming this December! Bringing up the concept of music festival, this Jakarta-based band is holding a music concert and art exhibition located in Rolling Stone Jakarta on the upcoming December 22nd . Not only will it showcase music and art, it will also expose the visitors the history of the band itself; the stories from their childhoods until when they decided to form the band. This festival is titled “The Story of Urban Mutation” as it emphasizes on the relation between each of the personnels' life stories and the mutation of Jakarta as an urban city backdrop which has developed the band's musical characteristics throughout the years.
Asides from the performance of The Brandal, there will also be a movie screening of “Marching Menuju Maut “ directed by Faesal Rizal, video clip screening of “Abrasi” directed by Anton Ismael, the band's photographs exhibition by Ade Branuza, the release of the album “Brigade EP” and also the performances of Lampu Kereta and The Badunks as the opening acts.
BRNDLFEST 2013 is definitely an unmissable event!
Rundown:
Retrospective Concert of The Brandals
Movie Screening of “Marching Menuju Maut”
Album Release of OGNRB RMX & Brigade EP
Video Clip Screening of “Abrasi”
Photograph Exhibition and The Brandals' Memorabilia
Opening Bands: Lampu Kereta and The Badunks
Rolling Stone Jakarta HQ Stage
15:00 p.m. - End
Listening to Hightime Rebellion is allowing yourself to be trapped in music that will most likely make you want to sing along to. Pumped up and filled with great vocal and instruments harmony, Hightime Rebellion is featured in the 74th The Wknd Sessions!
Hightime Rebellion is a Jakarta-based band consisting of Miyane Soemitro (vocalist), Rendy Surndrapati (guitaris and vocalist) Reza Arafat(drummer), Pulung Wahyudi(guitarist) and Jason Sutrisno (bassist), they have admitted that they have varied music influences between each other. However, it's definitely not something that got in their way; they are, in fact, united them in making music. Sail, for example, is one of their song made out of their different influences.
They also mentioned that they are now creating a new house music project. Definitely looking forward to it! For now, check their three performances and interview here.
Rain Chudori's heart-wrenching story of Monsoon the tiger, and the two humans whose lives have been stirred due to his arrival continues. The line between infidelity and an incurable loneliness gets all the more blurred in this chapter. Will Monsoon bring the two lovers closer or will the stray tiger drive them further apart?
, the London-based award-winning film maker, designer, and animator invites you to “In Dreams”, the visualization of four people's most vivid dreams that they remember the most as they discuss their dreams with their heads visualized as the representations of the dreams; the teeth, the hair, the tree and the eyes.
is my own most vivid dream?”
It was a forest, a sheet, a chair, a frame and nobody but himself that led the Pennsylvania-based photographer, Christopher Ryan McKenney, to take the first picture of his series of surreal photography, which was taken in the remote woods of his Wilkes-barre neighborhood.
His photographs are mostly faceless. The subjects are either covered by cloth over their heads, burned in fire, or just simply headless; a basic concept that is so scary and frightening yet somehow McKenney managed to make the results so beautifully haunting regardless of their scary concept.
McKenney does not reveal the identity of the human subject in most of his pictures. He explained that he likes “taking away identity when photographing and to leave people thinking.”
In his photograph of a man whose head is covered by a lampshade and with the falling lampshades surrounding him, I interpreted it as a representation of a human's mind that is highly influenced by numerous external factors surrounding it. However, according to the photographer himself, it is actually a depiction of “people having ideas but covering them up in fear of failure or what other people will think."
Surreal art works are indeed prone to multi-interpretation. However, that is actually one of its perks that makes people find them interesting. Given this fact, McKenney reacted to it with “I only make the photos I do to express myself and what other people see or think is up to them, as long as I make them feel anything, I’m ok with that”
McKenney's works might as well remind us about the works of the famous Belgian surrealist artist Rene Magritte as both of them emphasize the paradoxical idea of unveiling what lies beneath the pictures by concealing it.
Magritte, in his“The Son of Man” painting which depicts a man whose face is hidden by a green apple tried to show the viewers that everything we see hides another thing; so did McKenney in his photographs by, for example, hiding the identities of his human objects.
Surrealism, as for myself, is the style of art that triggers what is in you; it crosses the boundaries of what normally belongs to social conformity and expresses what actually lies within, enabling the works of it to be distinctive and brutally honest.
Secondhand bookstores have a nostalgic value, but more important than that is their role to give old books a home. Located in Kuala Lumpur's bustling Chinatown, Junk Book Store is home to towers and towers of used books that are hard to come by elsewhere. The existence of stores like this proves that books are able to survive the digital age.
