[MUSIC] Lukman Laksmana | About Nadir Point Who Almost Killed Her

Lukman Laksamana aka Luks (Mahesa / VOI)

Lukman Laksamana alias Luks finally returned. After missing for about two years, this 2000s punk rock leader decided to return to his world: Music. Yesterday, we met Luks, capturing the uneasiness he felt during the 'hermitage'. In times of adversity, Luks not only touched the lowest point in life, but also almost touched the line that could have ended his life.

We arrived at Guitar Freaks, Fatmawati, South Jakarta around 17.30 WIB. At that time, Luks was standing in the middle of a room full of guitars hanging here and there, surrounded by coffee machines and tables made of amplifier carcasses. His eyes were stuck on the calf-high stage in front of him.

On stage, his colleagues at Kausa - the new group Luks - did the soundcheck. Luks is still the same, he is still the lead, as in Superglad. His ear is clearly working hard. Occasionally he shouted instructions to the soundman or his colleagues on stage. The rockstar Luks aura still radiates.

We greet Luks. He greeted him with a hug. One more thing that was caught on Luks, he is still warm. "Sit down first, okay. I'll follow you later," he said.

Before long, Luks followed us who took a sitting position outside the room. Sure, he pulled a chair over to our table, picked up a hat we put on the table and put it on our heads. "Relax, I'm ordering the Kapal Api outside. I can't (drink) cafe coffees like this," he replied, welcoming our coffee offer. Until that second, everything about Luks was still the same.

When the time showed around 17.50 WIB, he stood shifting the door connecting us and the stage, then threw a casual instruction towards the stage: Continue later, OK. Break first, Maghrib! Finally, in the first 20 minutes of the encounter, we caught the first thing that changed Luks.

Luks during a workshop with Kausa (Ikbal / VOI)

Our last meeting with Luks took place in 2013. At that time, Superglad held a concert for the launch of the One Soul & One Life video clip at the Basement Cafe, Swissbell Hotel, Kemang, South Jakarta. The song is a collaboration between Superglad and Ras Muhamad. One of the best songs on the album "The Capital Boys".

Four years after "Capital City Rogues", Superglad released an album titled "Explain the World". The album was Superglad's last album with Luks, before he disappeared a week before Superglad held a tour for the album. Luks's move is mysterious, creating hassles in the management camp, while leaving so many questions in the heads of underground music fans.

Luks said, all the life processes he has experienced have brought him to a certain spiritual point that encourages him to become a better person. "Everything, yes. From the beginning, everything I experienced eventually brought me here. Not only my disappearance for the past two years. The loss of these two years may be a reflection stage, yes. I think about many things, ponder," he said.

"If I learn about religion, I'm not very learning. In the sense that I'm not learning tausiyah, monotheism, no. It's more calming, more patient learning,"

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"Just be more patient at least at least. In the past, the guitar was dead, I was grumbling, my face was like a screwdriver, I see. Coe has experienced it, I threw the guitar when my guitar died. Now, hopefully not. The guitar is dead, keep smiling as much as you can, "said Luks recalling his past interactions with the Superglad crew.

Throughout his hermitage, Luks settled in Bandung, getting closer to his family there. Even though he got extraordinary peace, true great anxiety still clung to Luks. With a reason that he did not reveal, he said it was impossible to return to the world of music at that time. He does all the work to stay alive, including being a runner in a restaurant.

"Whatever I did at that time. From starting to help my family, my brother had my business to help. Or I helped people shoot for YouTube, I helped. A friend has a YouTube channel, I need a crew to hold the lights, I do it."

"The lowest point is that I end up having to become a runner to make money. It's not that I underestimate the runner, but I think how come I got to this way. Well, that's where I started to rethink my career in music. I MCed the show ( tour) Slank. "

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Suicide

All the chaos within Luks actually started long before he decided to disappear. In 2013, Luks had tried to commit suicide. At that time, the menu of death for Luks was 16 pills of hangover medicine and one glass of insecticide liquid. The lowest point in Luks's life began there, when he felt he had no chance to end life's problems that he did not specify.

"I feel that I have no use for living. What else am I living for? I don't think there is any way out, here. The way out for me at that time was 16 Antimo and a glass of Baygon. Enough, that is. Comfortable, I think. too koit. "

"At that time, I felt that I was hopeless. I felt that ending my life was a way out of my life's problems. At that time, I didn't see any opportunity to solve the problems I was facing."

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Even so, Luks admits that he learned a lot from the incident, when the menu of death was not enough to kill him. "From there, I actually feel that I still have a lot of things to do. I'm not done here yet. Many just drink a sip of Baygon, right? But, I don't. And now here I am. Get up, coy!" he said, raising a fist.

In addition to personal matters, which he did not explain in detail, Luks also said that losing his child was what made him worse off. According to him, a problem in the family made him unable to meet 'The Little Fairy'. "That's also what made me drop. Until now, in six to seven years I have never met my son."

Way home

Slank's tour to several cities has really become Luks's way back to the world of music. When the tour reached Palembang City, Luks met Danar Laksana, Stage Manager for the tour. The two agreed to form a heavy rock band called Kausa. Over time, Luks compiled the puzzle of his dreams.

"I've wanted to have a band called Kausa for a long time. Kausa means the cause of an incident. I was looking for a guitarist. I really wanted a good guitarist, the one who was speeding. Finally, I met Fafa. Finally, just now Ivan, the bontot, "Luks said introducing the Kausa personnel who joined our chat that afternoon.

Kausa recently launched her debut album titled Corvus Corvidae in March 2019. Corvus Corvidae is taken from the Latin name crow. According to Luks, the crow represents the habit of sharing with others. "Crows share their lives. Every time there is a carcass, they will call the flock to enjoy the carcass together. Carcasses, you know!"

This album contains ten tracks full of energy and screams. In this album, Kausa collaborated with a number of cool musicians, from Che Cupumanik, Anggi Revenge The Fate, to senior rocker Eet Sjahranie who filled the distortion in the song Wacana and Rencana. The lyrics of this song criticized the discourse on the Music Bill, which at that time became a polemic.

Our interview with Luks and Kausa (Ikbal / VOI)

Besides forming Kausa, Luks finally announced his return to Superglad. Through a single titled Kembali, Luks describes his feelings of returning to the band the Capital City after being on hiatus for two years. In the video clip Kembali, Superglad also describes the processes taking place within the band.

Starting from the announcement of a new vocalist audition - which they had spread some time ago as a marketing strategy - to the audition process that featured a series of names as cameos. In the next part, the video clip presents a picture of Buluk's return from 'rehearsal', before closing with a farewell delivered by Dadi at the end of the video clip.

"A new history for Superglad. 23 August 2019 is a new sheet for us. Again, a song that represents the feelings of Luks, the vocalist who has been on hiatus for two years from Superglad," the caption of the video clip uploaded on YouTube on 23 August 2019 read. .

"Unfortunately, in this video there is bad news that we have to convey. Dadi (guitarist) says goodbye to Superglad. Enjoy our first work in this new chapter. Greetings, Giox, Luks, Akbar .... We are BACK."

According to Luks, family is the biggest reason for Dadi's departure from Superglad. Dadi actually had time to fill the song again in the recording session. However, with professionalism in mind, Luks, Giox, Akbar, and Dadi finally decided to remove the guitar parts Dadi had filled in and replace them with guitar fillings which Luks re-took.

We ended the interview that afternoon by watching a full workshop that Kausa conducted with a number of guitarists. At Guitar Freaks, Kausa will appear in collaborative shows with the guitarists, starting from Eet, Edwin Cokelat, to Andre Tiranda from Siksakubur. A performance that will probably be very important to Kausa and Luks and the story of his comeback.