The Panic Of Guitarist Patrick Lesmana With An Instrumental Solo Album Titled Yabai

Patrick Lesmana (Doc. Cadazz Pustaka Music)

JAKARTA - Guitarist from Malang, East Java, Patrick Lesmana released his first instrumental album titled Yabai. This album is already available on various digital music platforms through collaboration between Cadazz Pustaka Music as a label and Musicblast.

Present in the midst of the fabrication of records by a number of musicians who put forward the lyrics as a bridge for the delivery of stories and the meaning of a song, Patrick actually looked different.

Growing up in the millennial era but being interested in the progessive rock music and jazz rock mid 60-80s, made Patrick very intense listening to the works of King Crimson, Frank Zappa, Yes, Genesis, Weed, Kansas, IOU (Allan holdingsworth), Casiopea and others.

This Yabai album carries a theme inspired by the music of past console soundtrack games such as Playstation 1, Nintendo and the like.

I personally love the tone of the games. In addition to catchy, many jazz or fusion elements are attached to the soundtrack-soundtrack," Patrick explained in an official statement received by the editor.

"In addition to progressive rock and jazz rock, the jazz fusion genre itself is one of my main influences in making this album. Especially the popular jazz fusion music in Japan such as Maoki Yamamoto, Casiopea, Tsquare and Trixx."

Broadly speaking, Yabai is a mixture of the elements of jazz-fusion music with prog rock and an element of avantgarde that affects the composition of the songs contained in it.

Interestingly, Patrick did not try to feature the guitar as his main instrument in this album. However, all instruments play in the same portion. In short, the 1996-born guitarist highlighted more the composition in each of the songs.

Yabai itself is a term in Japanese that means "ghuh!", "danger!", "catastrophe!" or "wah!", "yellow!", "gokil!". However, in this first album Patrick revealed it as a panic.

Panic in this regard concerns his existence as a guitarist who feels that he has not had a release of works throughout his career, while fellow musicians in Malang have poured a lot of work.

As for the first single, Patrick plays Paradise Of Inner Fire as the champion. This video clip of the song can already be enjoyed on the Musicblast Youtube account. Watch below.