Sajama cut
Encyclopedia
Sajama Cut is a band from Jakarta
, Indonesia
known for their changing styles of music, which ranges from noise pop
, ambient
, indie rock
, baroque pop
, folk rock
, lo-fi, to electronica
.
. This has been discredited by Marcel Thee. http://jawapos.co.id/index.php?act=detail_c&id=169739.
In 2006, Sajama Cut also contributed 4 songs to another motion picture Photo, Box, Window.
On May 2008, L'Internationale; a remix album version of the songs from The Osaka Journals with remixes from international producers from Japan, US, UK, Indonesia, Norway, Italy, Scotland, Portugal, Germany, Venezuella and Hong Kong was released. The first single being a remix of Nemesis/Murder from the international 8-bit artist YMCK, from Tokyo, Japan. Currently there are 3 music videos made for singles from this album.
Two EPs; Night Music (1923) and Cinema Eye was released in late 2008. Another EP, New Year Ends, which dabbled in ambient, experimental music, was released during the New Year's Eve of 2010.
Sajama Cut will release their new album in April 2010.http://www.deathrockstar.info/sajamacut
The Osaka Journals was listed in the "Top 5 Albums of 2000s in The Jakarta Post newspaper. http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2009/12/27/top-five-albums-2000s.html
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|2002:
|Apologia
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|2005:
|The Osaka Journals
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|2010:
|Manimal
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|2007:
|The Nemesis EP
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|2008:
|L'Internationale
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|2008:
|Night Music (1923)
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|2008:
|Cinema Eye
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|2009:
|New Year Ends
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|2010:
|Paintings/Pantings
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|2010:
|Celebrations (Light It Up)
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|2011:
|Panther East Ghouls, 1867
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|2011:
|Twice (Rung the Ladder) / Poral Molice
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|2011:
|Chinese Magicians
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| width=5% | Year
| width=80% | Title
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|2003:
|Mesin Distorsi
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|2003:
|Total Feedback
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|2004:
|Jakarta Now Vol.1
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|2004:
|Joni's Promise (Soundtrack)
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|2006:
|Photo, Box, Window
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|2006:
|Alila Hotel Compilation
|}
Jakarta
Jakarta is the capital and largest city of Indonesia. Officially known as the Special Capital Territory of Jakarta, it is located on the northwest coast of Java, has an area of , and a population of 9,580,000. Jakarta is the country's economic, cultural and political centre...
, Indonesia
Indonesia
Indonesia , officially the Republic of Indonesia , is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Indonesia is an archipelago comprising approximately 13,000 islands. It has 33 provinces with over 238 million people, and is the world's fourth most populous country. Indonesia is a republic, with an...
known for their changing styles of music, which ranges from noise pop
Noise pop
Noise pop is a subgenre of alternative rock developed in the mid 1980s in the UK and US, that mixes atonal noise or feedback, or both, with the melodic instrumentation and production elements more often found in pop music, making it more melodic and angst-free than noise rock.-History:Noise pop has...
, ambient
Ambient music
Ambient music is a musical genre that focuses largely on the timbral characteristics of sounds, often organized or performed to evoke an "atmospheric", "visual" or "unobtrusive" quality.- History :...
, indie rock
Indie rock
Indie rock is a genre of alternative rock that originated in the United Kingdom and the United States in the 1980s. Indie rock is extremely diverse, with sub-genres that include lo-fi, post-rock, math rock, indie pop, dream pop, noise rock, space rock, sadcore, riot grrrl and emo, among others...
, baroque pop
Baroque pop
Baroque pop, Baroque rock, or English baroque, often used interchangeably with chamber pop/rock, is a pop and rock music subgenre which originated in the mid-1960s in the United Kingdom and United States...
, folk rock
Folk rock
Folk rock is a musical genre combining elements of folk music and rock music. In its earliest and narrowest sense, the term referred to a genre that arose in the United States and the UK around the mid-1960s...
, lo-fi, to electronica
Electronica
Electronica includes a wide range of contemporary electronic music designed for a wide range of uses, including foreground listening, some forms of dancing, and background music for other activities; however, unlike electronic dance music, it is not specifically made for dancing...
.
History
The band is known to have come up with numerous explanations for their name, among them; the name of an old Japanese children's toy, the name of Thee's father's colleague, a book/movie title, a haircut style, a random word Thee came up with, the result of the band members fooling around with an Ouija BoardOuija Board
Ouija Board is a Thoroughbred mare racehorse owned by Edward Stanley, 19th Earl of Derby and trained by Ed Dunlop. In a career spanning four seasons, she won 10 of her 22 races, 7 of them Group 1s, including the Epsom Oaks in 2004 and the Hong Kong Vase in 2005...
. This has been discredited by Marcel Thee. http://jawapos.co.id/index.php?act=detail_c&id=169739.
In 2006, Sajama Cut also contributed 4 songs to another motion picture Photo, Box, Window.
On May 2008, L'Internationale; a remix album version of the songs from The Osaka Journals with remixes from international producers from Japan, US, UK, Indonesia, Norway, Italy, Scotland, Portugal, Germany, Venezuella and Hong Kong was released. The first single being a remix of Nemesis/Murder from the international 8-bit artist YMCK, from Tokyo, Japan. Currently there are 3 music videos made for singles from this album.
Two EPs; Night Music (1923) and Cinema Eye was released in late 2008. Another EP, New Year Ends, which dabbled in ambient, experimental music, was released during the New Year's Eve of 2010.
Sajama Cut will release their new album in April 2010.http://www.deathrockstar.info/sajamacut
The Osaka Journals was listed in the "Top 5 Albums of 2000s in The Jakarta Post newspaper. http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2009/12/27/top-five-albums-2000s.html
Discography
The band has released two albums, along with numerous compilations, most notably the best selling JKT:SKRG (Jakarta Now!) compilation, and had a major radio hit when their single "Less Afraid" appeared on the motion picture Joni's Promise, in which the song could be heard almost in its entirety two times during the movie http://tembang.com/info_detail.asp?id=2525&kategori=news.Albums
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| width=80% | Title
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|2002:
|Apologia
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|2005:
|The Osaka Journals
The Osaka Journals
The Osaka Journals is the second album from Sajama Cut. It was released in 2005, with distribution help from the major label Universal Music Indonesia...
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|2010:
|Manimal
Manimal
Manimal is an American action–adventure series that ran from September 30 to December 17, 1983 on NBC. The show centers on the character Dr Jonathan Chase , a shape-shifting man who possessed the ability to turn himself into any animal he chose...
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Singles/Remixes/EPs
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| width=5% | Year
| width=80% | Title
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|2007:
|The Nemesis EP
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|2008:
|L'Internationale
|-
|2008:
|Night Music (1923)
|-
|2008:
|Cinema Eye
|-
|2009:
|New Year Ends
|-
|2010:
|Paintings/Pantings
|-
|2010:
|Celebrations (Light It Up)
|-
|2011:
|Panther East Ghouls, 1867
|-
|2011:
|Twice (Rung the Ladder) / Poral Molice
|-
|2011:
|Chinese Magicians
|}
Compilations
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| width=5% | Year
| width=80% | Title
|-
|2003:
|Mesin Distorsi
|-
|2003:
|Total Feedback
|-
|2004:
|Jakarta Now Vol.1
|-
|2004:
|Joni's Promise (Soundtrack)
|-
|2006:
|Photo, Box, Window
|-
|2006:
|Alila Hotel Compilation
|}