Java Soulnation 2009

Dira J. Sugandi

At the end on October 2009, Java Festival Production held the anticipated Java Soulnation which brings International Artist such as The Ting Tings, Musiq Soulchild, Tortured Soul, Arrested Development, etc here to Jakarta, Indonesia. Java Soulnation was also brought us Indonesian young talented artist, and of them brightstar is Dira J. Sugandi. Dira was the one who sang with Jason Mraz & Incognito at Java Jazz and her album (which is produced by Incognito's Bluey), is scheduled to be released this year. Dira Sugandi performed with an awesome band which consist Barry Likumahuwa as her music director and also played the bass.

Musiq Soulchild and his band

The next highlight is the soul singer Musiq Soulchild. On the show, I had just find out that his band is All Women, and all of them was freakin great! especially the drummer who just blow my mind right away with her powerfull and skillful play.

Musiq Soulchild

Musiq Soulchild performed most of his well known songs such as "If You Leave", "I Just Wanna Know", "Love", "So Beautiful", "Buddy", "For the Night", "So Beautiful", "Half Crazy", etc. 2 things that bothers me is he didn't sing "Who Knows" and also he performed "Don't Change" just a bit and not the entire song. but overall his performance and the band was amazing.

Tortured Soul

The next best thing i've been waiting to see again is Tortured Soul. They made the crowd moved their feet and dancing wildly to John-Christian Ulrich's beat, Jason Kriveloff's awesome bassline, and Ethan White's (who looked like Adam Brody that night) keys. They performed their songs their first album like "Fall in Love", "How's Your Life", "Enjoy it Now", "Epic" (Mr. Ulrich seemed very enjoyed playing this song), etc. They also performed songs from their other albums such as "Special Lady", "Another Lover" and "Did You Miss Me". and they leave the crowd humming their song as they went home.

John Christian Ulrich of Tortured Soul

Java Soundtastic 2009 / Rockin'land 2009 ????

After changing the name of the event, from Java Soundtastic Festival to Java RockAddition, now it is changed again and this time it is (supposed to be) official. Scheduled to be held at August 7,8,9, they planned to bring Big Names including :

The Ting Tings, John Mayer, Oasis, Blur, Fall Out Boy, Foo Fighters, Katy Perry, Paramore, Placebo, L'arc en Ciel, Datarock, Mr.Big, etc.

well, at this time, none of em has confirmed their availability. so lets just wait for the next info of Java Rockin'land 2009.

Yes, It's Finally True! Jamiroquai came to Indonesia!

As we seen the posters before (click here), at April 8th 2009, Sentul International Convention Centre was rocked by JayKay and the gang!

yep, after many speculations that said that Jay Kay attendants to Indonesia is cancelled due to some problems, Java Festival has succesfully held the Concert on last wednesday.

these pictures above is courtesy of my friends who attended the show. enjoy!

JAYKAY

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too bad he did not wear his "hat" :D

JJF 2009

hmm. Java Jazz Festival 2009, with Jason Mraz (well, mr. A-Z here is the most anticipated performer this year) & Brian McKnight as the Special Shows.
photographs below, courtesy of my friends who attend JJF2009 (cause i dont! :D). cheers!

*you may click on the images for bigger size of the pictures

Jason Mraz


Brian McKnight


Crowds takin photographs

"Yes It's True"!! Jamiroquai is Coming to Indonesia!

Yes It's True Flyers,
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Cosmic Girl, High Times, Canned Heat, Too Young To Die, Space Cowboy, Talulah, Seven Days In Sunny June, etc.

yep we all know the songs, and we all know the man, Jay Kay himself is planned to come to Indonesia (Jakarta & Sentul to be exact) to perform on "Yes It's True" event held by Java Festival Production (the same people who brought you Jamie Cullum, Brian McKnight, Jason Mraz, Brand New Heavies, etc. on Java Jazz Festival).

the event itself is planned to be held at April 8th 2009, at Sentul International Convention Center. the ticket prices is not quite cheap, but you will get a great deal if you bought it at the JJF2009 (yeah, a discount)

for more information, just wait for the Official Website of this. or at the time, you could see the price list on Jazzuality.

Source :
Jazzuality,
Jamiroquai.com,
Funkin.