Bayu Purwadi Risakotta, better known as Bayu Risa is a young man who’s now steadily climbing into the top of the Indonesian music industry. Bayu Risa was once joined PASTO, but then left the band in 2008 to pursue his solo career. His first single was launched shortly after, entitled “Inner Beauty” followed by “Love Song” and gained popularity among the independent music fans.

He did great job in presenting a really nice session. One of the audiences said that she was fortunate enough to be able to watch Bayu Risa tonight, enjoying his songs such as “Percaya”, “Love Song” and “Fire”, also some medleys in which he sang Utha Likumahuwa’s songs to honor this legendary singer who just passed away less than two weeks ago. In his session he invited a lady with amazing voice, Sara Halim who’s also known as the lead singer of Un Soirée to do a duet. Just like how we always enjoy Sara’s highly gifted vocal in Un Soirée, she did very well too in this show. It wasn’t the first time we saw this young man on stage, and we could see many improvements have been happening to him lately.

Two groups closed the whole shows for the 1st day of Java Soulnation Festival. First let’s see the group on the stage near the entrance. From four people in solid formation, Sashilia Gandarum (vocal), Aji  Yudo (guitar), Putra Praditya (drum), Rishanda Singgih (bass), a cool acoustic group DREW was born. Their  intimate performance on stage will always catch people’s attention, also their cathcy and easy listening music.

Their first single “Unromantic” appeared in of 2008 released and listed in Prambors’ compilation, Nu Buzz 1.1. This song even became the first single from that album. The last time we met them was when they joined the whole gang of Urban Jazz Crossover with a lovely acoustic approach.  Now we are happy to see them again on stage with full band. Still appearing fresh and interactive, they shortened the distance between the stage and the audience until it felt like no space in between anymore. Playing their own hits including “Unromantic” and the latest one “Rocket”, they also did some covers of the recent hits such as Maroon 5′s “Moves Like Jagger” in a lovely duet with Aditya as a guest star, and Jemima landed nicely on this stage too, as if she hadn’t tired at all after two big sessions before this.  Eventhough it was already so late, DREW and the featured guests  still performed with fresh energy.

The whole rundown ended on Tebs Stage with a group who brings the urban sound with so many flavors inside. Boogiemen, that’s the name of this brilliant team consists of highly creative young talents who always eager to explore new musical teritories  Unlike many other hip hop groups, Boogiemen injects many musical patterns inside their sound. Name some like soul, funk, rock, pop and also jazz have been known existed within them ever since. With wide range of musicality, no wonder Boogiemen able to expand their path to go much further than just the hip hop scene. They have performed in some international sized festival such as Java Jazz Festival, Java Soulnation Festival, Sunburn Music Festival in KL, Malaysia and many more. While the Boogiemen frequently added jazzy flavors inside their music, the frontman Kyriz has gotten closer encounters with jazz. He’s constantly included in Urban Jazz Crossover, contributed big in LLW’s album “Love Life Wisdom” (buy the album here: http://store.jazzuality.com/products/cd/llw-love-life-wisdom/ ) and occassionally helped jazz bands to bring the urban approach in their musics.

Tonight Boogiemen featured some of the familiar musicians such as Rayendra Sunito (drums) and Fajar Adi Nugroho (bass). While Kyriz gave a high dose rap to entertain the rest of the audience, Lloyd Popp did brilliantly over his talk box as he often does. As the result, we got one hip hop package with rich tonal colors and harmony presented by the Boogiemen. Matthew Sayersz joined them too as a guest star. Jemima once again appeared, unleashing the rest of her energy in this closing act for day 1.

With the Boogiemen the 1st day of Java Soulnation Festival ended. Get ready to have the second and third day, we will keep on reporting to you from Istora Senayan. We’ll be back on the second day shortly.

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Reporter: Riandy Kurniawan, Ata Michaella
Photographer: Omar Arif Maulana, Praditya Nova, Muhammad Fadhly

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