60′ & 70’s Indonesian Rock & Roll Night
with: Indische Party
The Flower Girls (Dara Puspita tribute band)
DJ David Tarigan
@ Rich Mix London 20 10 ’17
@Les Brigitinnes Brussels 21 10 ’17
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Indische Party
With lead singer Jafar Shadiq strutting his stuff like a young Mick Jagger, rhythms to twist to by female drummer Tika Pramestri, and the twanging, Shadows-esque guitar sounds of Andre Idris, Indische Party bring you 1960’s rhythm and blues full of attitude and Far Eastern vibes sung in Indonesian and English.
Formed in 2011, they won the Converse Rubber Tracks 2015 and the opportunity to record two songs at Abbey Road Studios. They released their eponymous debut album in 2013 followed by ‘On Vacation’ and their second album ‘Analog’ in 2016.
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Flower Girls
During the 1960s, Dara Puspita took Indonesia by storm with uninhibited garage rock and girl power. Brazen and loud, the Dara Puspita girls broke down the house and raged on stage. This was not an easy things to do during an era when President Sukarno formally prohibited all Western influences and particularly music, which was considered “a form of mental illness”. The simple act of listening to The Beatles was punishable by prison.
The Indonesian authorities soon noticed them and made their lives impossible. A concert in 1965 ended in a riot and was followed by a month of police interrogation. Dara Puspita fled to Thailand and had to wait for the fall of Sukarno to return to their home country. Their short but dazzling career – including tours in the UK, Belgium, Turkey and Iran – has won them an important place in the history of international rock music.
Together with four musician friends, Tika Pramesti, drummer in the band Indische Party, has formed a group to pay tribute to these legendary rock chicks, reproducing their greatest hits with the same raw energy and audacity.
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DJ David Tarigan is a major collector of Indonesian music and always on the lookout for rare pearls, obscure grooves and bands erased from the collective memory. His exotic, improbable sets demonstrate the allure of Indonesian jazz, funk, rock and psychedelic disco from the 1960s and ‘70s.
In 2004, David cofounded Aksara Records. He recently launched the Irama Nusantara digital archive, which aims to safeguard and share forgotten treasures of popular Indonesian music.
