30 Years Of Edane Standing, Get To Know More About A Special Figure Named Eet Sjahranie

Eet Sjahranie (Instagram @edane_official)

JAKARTA - It seems like just yesterday that The Beast's album was released and caused a stir in the country's music scene. This year, the rock band Edane has reached the age of 30. It is undeniable that without this one person, Edane would not have been able to survive and produce quality rock works. This is Eet Sjahranie.

Born in Bandung, February 3, 1962 with the name Zahedi Riza Sjahranie, Eet Sjahranie began to like music while living in the city of Samarinda when he joined his father who was the Governor of East Kalimantan.

Eet Sjahranie is the seventh of eight children. When he was about six years old, he learned guitar from a parking attendant in front of his school. Since then, Eet Sjahranie has been self-taught acoustic guitar.

Eet Sjahranie admitted that at first he was confused about which instrument to play. Finally. he chose a guitar after his heart was moved to see Koes Plus. "Seeing Yok and Yon Koeswoyo's stage action is a pleasure for me," said Eet Sjahranie once quoted from several sources.

Eet Sjahranie's introduction to the electric guitar occurred when his father bought him a Yamaha SG guitar on his birthday. At the same time that rock music began to enter his soul. With an electric guitar, he began to recognize 'weird' sounds. His musical references gradually began to increase. Not only Indonesian songs, but also Western songs such as those of Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin, and The Beatles.

In 1978, his father's term as governor ended and Eet Sjahranie was brought to Jakarta to move. In high school, Eet Sjahranie formed a rock band called Cikini Rock Band. Meanwhile, Cikini Stone Complex - the forerunner of Slank - is a band under Eet Sjahranie's class at the Cikini College.

Cikini Rock Band then participated in high school festivals throughout Jakarta. Unexpectedly, Eet Sjahranie won the best guitarist title. It was there that he met Iwan Madjid who then introduced him to Fariz RM and Darwin. Soon, they agreed to form a band called WOW. But unfortunately, not long after, Eet Sjahranie instead went to America.

In Uncle Sam's country, Eet took a recording sound engineering workshop in Chillicote, Ohio for three months. There he reportedly studied directly with the world's top guitarists such as Steve Vai and Eddie Van Halen. However, the legend denied having studied with the two world guitar virtuosos.

Eet Sjahranie emphasized that he only knew the name Eddie Van Halen when he lived in America. Even to this moment, he doesn't know how to play the song Eruption in Van Halen's debut album.

In America, Eet Sjahranie met his old friends, including Fariz RM, Iwan Madjid, and Ekki Soekarno. And when he returned to Indonesia, in 1988 he joined Fariz RM's accompaniment band called Superdigi. In addition, he also briefly joined Ekki Soekarno, worked on the albums Kharisma I and Kharisma II, and stopped in the band Cynomadeus with Iwan Madjid.

While working on Ekki Soekarno's album, Eet Sjahranie met Yockie Suryo Proyogo who then invited him to join God Bless, replacing Ian Antono. Eet Sjahranie's injection in the album Giant (1989) succeeded in turning God Bless into a fresh and fierce band. There are no more progressive rock songs in the style of Genesis like in Huma di Atas Bukit, for example.

Apart from being a player, Eet Sjahranie was also offered a record producer to work on several rock genre projects. One of them is a duo project called 'EdanE' with vocalist Ecky Lamoh. However, because at that time there was another duet named 'IdanI' (Ian Antono & Ikang Fawzi), Eet Sjahranie decided against it and preferred to form a hard rock band called Edane. This duo was then completed by Fajar Satritama (drums) and Iwan Xaverius (bass).

Together with Edane, Eet Sjahranie devotes all his abilities to playing the guitar. His dream to make Indonesian rock music - at least musically the same quality as rock groups from the West - he tried to make it happen. As a result, everyone admits, Eet Sjahranie has succeeded in creating quality rock music. His high-technical fingers and his rich sound distortion experiments in Edane's albums have amazed many people.

Now, Edane only has two original personnel left; Eet Sjahranie and Fajar Satritama. The other personnel are Ervin Nanzabakri (vocals) and Hendra Zamzami (bass). With this formation, Eet Sjahranie et al will continue to play rock music to spoil the ears of their fans. For him, there is no reason to lower the level of distortion in Edane's songs. That's Eet Sjahranie, a guitar champion who has always been a special person for Indonesian rock music lovers.