Growing And Becoming, Banda Neira's New Album To Reply To The Love Of Listeners

Cover the album Banda Neira (Doc. Ist)

JAKARTA - It took eight years before the broken Banda Neira to grow back. When many fans began to surrender to their sustainability, Ananda Badudu brought a new partner to revive them.

Ananda, who founded Banda Neira 2012, then said that listeners played a big role in his decision to end Banda Neira's disbandment period.

"It was the listeners who supported Banda Neira's songs all this time. I feel a lot of debt to them. I have never promoted Banda Neira's albums, but the songs are looking for their own way to meet the listeners," Ananda said in a written statement received by VOI, November 1.

At the end of 2023, Ananda's turning point was to determine Banda Neira's fate. Asa was getting stronger when he collected material for the third album. In mid-2024 he invited Sasha - a musician's colleague who has often accompanied Ananda as a background vocalist to join. After a few months after inviting Sasha, the new album titled Growing and Becomes completed.

Album Grows and Becomes worked on in the recording studio from May to September 2024. The album, whose entire song was produced by Lie Indra Perkasa, was recorded at the Gadgadasvara (Tangerang) and Kua Etnika (Yogyakarta) studios.

In building the arrangement, Banda Neira involved many musicians, including Panis Gardika Gigih and Mery Kasiman; drummer for Dialogue Early Days, Deny Surya; soloist Eky Rizkani known as the Reruntuh stage; vocal arranger Ranya Badudu; and the Quartet String Room from Yogyakarta consisting of Jeremia Kimosabe (cello), Saptadi Kristiawan (biola 1), Oscar Tunes (biola 2), and Wasita Adi (viola).