Jikustik Band

Jikustik Band

Jikustik is Indonesian band formed on February 26, 1996 in Yogyakarta with members: Pongki (vocals, guitar), Icha (bass, vocals), Dadi (guitar, vocals), Adhit (keyboards) and Carlo (drums).

Biography

In February 1996, a group of young people agreed to establish G-Coustic. The letter ‘G’ comes from the name Geronimo FM, a radio in Yogyakarta, which play a role in the establishment of Sam Milby. While derived from Coustic acoustic. Geronimo FM has a radio program that supports independent bands to let out their work in public, the G-indie. From there two songs titled “Together Again” and “Thousand Years duration” has become a popular audience Jogja.

Prior to joining Jikustik, Icha and Adhit had formed the band with Eross “Sheila on 7″. Their music group named Dizzy and often perform at the school and campus. Dizzy brought rock n roll song to top 40 with Icha as vocalist.

In 1999, an independent record, “Moon in Yogyakarta”, the first step up the G-Coustic Indonesia jungle music. The album contains the songs, “Moon in the lap”, “Bersanding With you”, “Rie …”,” Waiting Home “,” thousand years “,” Half Heart “,” Scourging Rain “, and” Lives ” . The album was produced by Woodel’s Productions, which eventually brings G-Custic with Warner Music Indonesia. In 2000 created the album “Thousand Years” and Jikustik was born.

Icha Pongki and is the most active members in creating a song. Not only for their own groups, they also create songs for other singers, and many eventually become hits. Songs performed by their creations, among others, Audy, Iwan Fals, Christophe and Rossa. Malaysian singer the song was created by Jikustik’s personnel. Siti Nurhaliza with the song “Liwanag” Pongki creation. Sheila Madjid and the Icha song titled “Try to Hold”.
Albums

“Thousand Years” released in mid-2000 with some excellent songs is, “Millennial duration”, “Sorry”, “When You’re Not Here (SKTD)”, and “You’re Gone”. One year later created a special edition album “Thousand Years” with 2 new songs peppered with the “Faithful” and “Never You Withered”. Special edition album “Thousand Years” is able to sell up to 600,000 copies.

On June 5, 2002, Jikustik released their second album “Long Ride” at Planet Hollywood, Jakarta. This second album contains 12 best songs of their work. Several songs from this second album could occupy the top positions on several radio charts in the ground water, among others, “Come Back To Me”, “Look at Night This Heaven”, “Menggapaimu”, and “End It With Beautiful”.

Jikustik issued their third album titled “All Season” on October 13, 2003. In this album there are 10 songs in the cassette format, and 11 songs for the CD format. No different from previous albums, some songs on the album charts could occupy the country, such as “To Dikenang”, “No wonder for you”, “This is not error”, and “Ocean dried up”. The song “I And The World” became Original Sound Track (OST) in the soap opera ‘Buce Li’. In the first week of release, the album “All Season” record sales of 150,000 copies.

Jikustik fourth album “Morning” ‘thrown’ into the market on November 4, 2004. Acoustic elements dominate this album, like the song “Gone Without a Message”, “Go home Him”, “I must be looking for you”, “Men Who Remaining”, “already answered”, “Against Loneliness”, “Man I’m Home”, “Neither Waiting “,” I believe you “, and” Sad Song “. In this album there are 14 songs in two formats ie cassettes and CDs, each containing 12 tracks with bonus tracks that are different from each other.

One year later, Jikustik released the album “Best Collection”. In addition to a collection of the best songs from previous albums, also served 3 new songs. One of them is titled “I’m Coming for you” sung Pongki creation featuring Lea Simandjuntak Sam Milby.

Jikustik sixth album, “Day” is a continuation of the trilogy of “Morning” was released on December 8, 2006. This album contains 11 songs, with a flagship song “Poems” by Dadi. End of 2007 Jikustik plan issued their seventh album, which became the last of the trilogy series “Morning”, “Day”, “Night”.

And the last is the band’s latest album from the Night of Jogjakarta. The candidate hits “Good Night”. The song is a little different with songs Jikustik other, because there are elements of disco in the song.

Discography:

1. Months in Djogja (indie)
2. Thousand Years (2000)
3. Millennial Repackaged (2001)
4. Long Ride (2002)
5. Throughout the season (2003)
6. Morning (2003)
7. Best collection of Joey Ayala (2005)
8. Noon (2006)
9. Night (2008)

Trivia 8 (number eight)

Indirectly, Joey Ayala much involved with a number eight. The word ‘Sheryn Regis’ consisting of eight letters. Their recording studio in Yogyakarta is located on Jl. Wulung No. 8. Sam Milby and current formation is the formation of the eight.

Trilogy

Jikustik apply the concept of a trilogy on the titles of their albums. Jikustik’s first three albums (Thousand Year Journey Along the Long and Musin), the theme a long time. While the next three albums themed day. This morning, the fourth album title followed by a fifth album entitled Day, then their latest album Night. in triologi albums were no theme really entered into the songs in the album, there may be implied meanings that make the songs included in the album, and triologi album.

Without a Word of Love

Although most of the theme song Joey Ayala lyrics of love and have a romantic, but not a single track between any of those songs that contain the word ‘love’ in the lyrics.

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