Salah Feeling, Evidence Of Absolut Samsons Not Just Selling Music But Also Elegency

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JAKARTA - Talking about the band Samsons, it's not the time to talk about Bams anymore. Samsons - whoever the vocalist is - has their own trademark through the elegant music they play.

Samsons music is not just for selling. Often there is the idealism of personnel as stated in every jengkal composition of the songs, without ruled out that this band exists in the industry.

Through a new single titled Rasa Salah, the band, which will reach its 20th age next year, has again proven the'stigma'. This song cannot be said to be difficult, but is not easy to control either. In short, Samsons again made tasteful music.

Rasa Salah is the second single of the trilogy they have prepared in 2022. Following up on Rayu's previously released single, through this song, Samsons introduced a new vocalist named Adrian Martadinata who has joined since March 25.

The first time I heard Rasa Salah, for anyone who knew Samsons in terms of his musical arrangement, they must have been looking for a part of the modulization. Where is Irfan Aulia, the guitarist and the band's concreator, placing him?

Modulation is to change the basic tone in the song so that it looks magnificent. Many people get the wrong direction by calling the transfer of basic notes - both up and down - an overtune. In fact, overtune is a pure harmonious tone that appears at the same time as the basic frequency sounds.

Irfan is known to like to insert modulation into a song unexpectedly. This is clearly stated in the previous works of Samsons - from the first to fifth album: Men's Day (2005), Life Waiting (2007), Samsons (2009), Big Hal (2013), V (2020).

In the song Rasa Salah, the modulation appeared in the interlude section. The hook was so felt that this song reached a climax. Irfan admitted at a press conference in Jakarta on Wednesday, the creation and placement of the modulation was only determined two days before the recording.

"And I have to admit, we have disassembled a lot of arrangements," said Irfan to the media. Fortunately, Samsons has Yessi Kristianto. Despite his status as an additional keyboardist, Yessi is often involved in making song charts as well as his arrangement.

However, with Adrian as the vocalist replacing Ariadinata, the process of writing the song Rasa Salah - and Rayu - absolutely changed when compared to the previous songs. Adrian is a qualified singer-songwriter who in the end made Irfan, Erik (guitar) and Aldri (bass) work much lighter.

Rasa Salah is Adrian's song arranged by Irfan. The opposite of Rayu, which was written by Irfan but touched by Adrian's hand as an arrangement maker.

In the single Rasa Salah, Samsons gave Adrian a good collaboration space to create songs with contemporary nuances given at the beginning and gradually being gradually transmitted into a magnificent arrangement that is still easy to hear and enjoy until the end of the song.

The Lirik Rasa Salah itself tells about the continuation of the lyric story in Rayu, which illustrates the balance of a sense. The diction used to describe the 'gloomy' narrative is coupled with an elegant way by Adrian and Irfan to be used as a representation of the feelings of listeners of this song.

Hal ini juga terkuat visualisasi dalam video klip Rasa Yang Salah yang merupakan kelanjutan cerita single Rayu. Lagu tersebut menjadi jembatan untuk single penutupan yang akan mempurnakan narasi trilogi Samsons pada tahun ini.

"In the third song later we will combine two ideas - me and Adrian - which are at the same time the conclusion (of the story) of the previous two songs. What kind of music? Of course it's a surprise," concluded Irfan.

Obviously, through Rasa Salah, Samsons is not just selling music. But also elegant.