Recording Session for Rumah Hati Canada

West Java Syndicate is joining a music project by Rumah Hati Canada. They recorded two songs and collaborate with other  musicians.
Rumah Hati is a non-profit organization based in Vancouver, B.C.,Canada. They distribute donations to care the orphans in Indonesia.
The recording session took place at Studio 8 Bandung. Here's the video from the recording session

Woodwind Recording Session

West Java Syndicate returned to the studio to continue recording session that has been delayed by about one year. This recording session was to record the Sundanese woodwinds session with Mr Randy Gevenk  who just returned home from his study in China.
This session is for upcoming West Java Syndicate full-length album.

Asian African Carnival 2015

West Java Syndicate has got the opportunity to play at event Asian African Meet & Greet on April 22 and 23, 2015. This event is part of Asian African Carnival 2015 in 60th Commemoration of Asian African Conference. Asian African  Conference—also known as the Bandung Conference (Indonesian: Konferensi Asia-Afrika) —was a meeting of Asian and African states, most of which were newly independent, which took place on April 18–24, 1955 in Bandung, Indonesia. The twenty-five countries that participated at the Bandung Conference represented nearly one-quarter of the Earth's land surface and a total population of 1.5 billion people.^[1] The conference was organised by Indonesia,Burma, Pakistan, Ceylon (Sri Lanka), and India and was coordinated by Ruslan Abdulgani, secretary general of the Indonesian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The Meet and Greet was held in Cihampelas Walk (Ciwalk), and Paris Van Java (PVJ), Bandung - Indonesia. West Java Syndicate played two days, both at Paris Van Java for about an hour each show.

Playing two days in a row at Asian African Meet & Greet, part of Asian African Carnival 2015 in 60th Commemoration of Asian African Conference

Posted by West Java Syndicate on Tuesday, 12 May 2015

West Java Syndicate is back in the studio

In progress for next album.
More info at www.westjavasyndicate.com

Bukan Musik Biasa #38

West Java Syndicate played at an event called "Bukan Musik Biasa" on January 28, 2014 at Wisma Seni Taman Budaya Surakarta, Solo-Indonesia.
Bukan Musik Biasa is a musical event initiated by Balinese composer I Wayan Sadra. In the show, West Java Syndicate played right after Surabayan ethnic group Arek Wetanan. And after the last performer, Plenthe & Bukan Pitu Langit from Solo, there was a free discussion. The artists express ideas and arguments about their musical the work, speakers come to discuss, and some visitors also expressed his appreciation. Speaker for this edition was Aton Rustandi.
At this event, West Java Syndicate also brought the new member of the group, Randy Gevenk on woodwind section.

Photography supplied courtesy of mr Daniel La

About The Song: Tembang Katresna

Tembang Katresna in Sundanese language means Love Song.
This song tells us about the cycle of life which love gave a big role in it. In the first verse we can feel repetition of melody which trying to develop itself, then it fade to different tone, different color.
Second verse tells about that in life of love we often meet problem whether big or small, then we struggle as hard as we can to figure it out and solve it as soon as we can, and we feel relieved when we survived it.
But that's life, it always rolling like wheel, and we don't know what will going to happen next.

About the Song : Gending Rame Ku Kendang

This song is a proof that a percussion instrument--in this case is the sundanese kendang and drums--in addition to just a beat keeper but may have a role to give color and rhythmic melodies can provide additional color to the music itself. Gending is the arrangement of percussion rhythmic patterns or patterns that in the chain into sentences, which are repeated. Definition of drumming is not limited to the gamelan instruments, but non-gamelan instruments was included in it, such as Kacapi (sundanese sitar), Calung , Angklung and others and did not rule out the possibility that modern music instrument also included. We can hear in this song that there is a merger of two different musical elements, namely, modern music is the music of western and traditional Sundanese music . To be able to hear modern music genre Jazz Rock are pretty thick were accommodated by the pattern of rhythmic melodies by Keyboard, Bass Guitar, and Drums. elaborated with Waditra Sundanese Kendang and other traditional instruments, so in this song generates a new color in this song using pattern pat Sundanese tradition.