Discus Bangun Dari Tidur Panjang, Rilis Boxset Khusus Yang Beredar Di Jepang

Boxset Discus is circulated in Japan (Doc. Special)

JAKARTA - Discus finally came from a long sleep. This progressive music singer in Indonesia also made a comeback in an elegant way.

Not wanting to take responsibility, they immediately launched a boxset containing 3 CDs circulated by the Japan Disk Union.

Amazingly, this boxset immediately occupied the fourth best seller album on the Disk Union Japan's All Genre international chart. This is quite an amazing achievement for Indonesian musicians.

Less known in their own country, but sohor throughout the world. That's the Discus band that was founded in 1996. The concept of progressive music Discus is considered to have unique characteristics containing elements of rock, jazz, classic, avant-garde, and ethnic Indonesian.

Discus has appeared at various events abroad, including in the "Expose Concert Series" at Menlo Park, California, "Knitting Factory" in New York, and "ProgDay" in North Carolina. Everything was held in the United States in 2000.

Discus also appeared in "BajaProg" in Baja, Mexico in 2001, "Progsol" in Pratteln, Switzerland in 2005, and "FreakShow" in Wurzburg, Germany in 2005 also featured at the Zappanale festival in Bad Doberan, Germany, in 2009.

The two 2004 AMI Award trophies are a record for their careers, namely for the song 'Anne' in the category of 'best progressive rock music work', and also for the album '...Tot Licht!' in the category of "Production of the best progressive rock music work".

Discus' first album with the title 1st was circulated by Italian label Mellow Records in 1999 and in Indonesia circulated by Chico & Ira Productions, while the second album... Tot Licht! circulated in 2004 by France Musea Records and Japan Records, and Sony PRS in Indonesia. These two albums received a very good response from progressive music fans around the world even, in 1999, a United States music magazine Expose dubbed the band: "...best of the year stuff, this one gets our highest recommendation..."

In Japan, the album... Tot Licht! had to occupy the chair position no.1 best seller all genre atamazon.co.jp. For this new distribution boxset Discus issued a live album recorded on Progsol, Switzerland, where these three albums became one box set and the first two albums were re-mastered to improve the audio quality of the album. The three 3 CDs include:

1. Album 1st remastered with a 'Contrasts' track bonus live at World Music Festival GKJ 2005 feat I G Companyang Raka

2. Album...Tot icht! with a 'System Manipulation' track bonus live at Zappanale Festival Germany 2009 feat Andien and I G companyang Raka

3. The album 'Live in Switzerland, the official bootleg' contains a recording of Discus' concert at the 2005 Switzerland Festival ProgSol. The concert was recorded by Jurg Naegeli, the former bassist of the metal band Krokus who at that time had become one of Switzerland's best sound engineers

Seeing the public's response to Discus' box set, Iwan Hasan, the leader of Discus, immediately planned to create a new single as a continuation of the boxset in circulation and also planned a new album whose music has been mostly created by Iwan since 2007.