JAKARTA - Two Indonesian musical talents with different generations who have had careers in the United States, Keenan Nasution and Rich Brian, are working on a collaborative music project. They will bring back the 'Cakrawala Senja', a song Fariz RM wrote and became Keenan material for the album At the Angan-Angan Boundary (1978).
Keenan said that this collaboration occurred after the music label that oversees Brian, 88rising, tried to contact him some time ago.
"Initially there was a friend of mine who said there was a company looking for me, called 88rising. I don't know what it is," Keenan told the media crew via a recent virtual connection.
The singer who became a member of Gipsy in the 1970s said she had met a woman representing 88rising. The woman conveyed Brian's message to collaborate.
"Then we met, and he said there was a singer from Indonesia who wanted to meet and collaborate with me. Sing with him," said Keenan.
"He said there was a singer named Rich Brian, an Indonesian," he continued.
Keenan admitted that he did not know any information about Rich Brian before. He also asked his son for help, before meeting directly with the rapper.
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"I met via zoom, then decided the day. I didn't even know who he was. Then my son said he was a famous rapper on 88rising. I then listened to some of the songs a few minutes before meeting," said Keenan.
"Then we met, and chatted. There he brought my ancient cassettes. I think it was 1978," he added.
The 72-year-old singer admitted that she had doubts about collaborating, given the difference in her musical style with Brian
"The genre is already different, I am confused, how to make it one? There is no beat, that person is full piano song. Anyway, he wants it. Yes, we agree," said Keenan.
Meanwhile, collaboration with Rich Brian is still in the making of music sampling. Keenan still doesn't know exactly how 88rising as the rapper's record label will work on this collaboration.
"Still in the culinary process and given sampling. The important thing is that I know the part of my mother that I have to sing," he concluded.
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