Career
He is known as one of the most famous jazz guitarists in Indonesia. He has collaborated with many Indonesian musicians such as Glenn Fredly, Indro, Arie Ayunir and Shakila. Many of his work has traditional culture elements as he always try to combine both modern and traditional Indonesian music on his albums.
The influence came from many different international jazz guitarists, but the most significant influence came from Pat Metheny.
Earlier experiences In his early age, was already interested in becoming a musician and often played on many shows around Jakarta, although it was not as a professional career. Professional career After winning a series of awards, decided to begin his professional career.
His professional career began in 1993 when he joined a band called Simak Dialog with Riza Arshad, Arie Ayunir and Indro. Indro is a bassist who played the "Bass Heroes" show in Jakarta.
Later, Indro often played with in many different shows.
With Simak Dialog, had released 3 albums, which were, Bauk and Trance/Madison. In the late 1990s, decided to start a solo career and released his first solo album in 1998. The album was also includes a collaboration with Shakila and Glenn Fredly, both popular singers.
To gained more popularity, he released two video clips of one of his songs on the album, the song titled " Pagi", which was a song with a collaboration with Shakila.
The video clip was a success and the song made it to the charts in Indonesia. His second album, offered more instrumental hits.
Quite different with the last album, only included one song with vocals on the album, titled "Jejak Langkah Yang Kau Tinggal. This was also the only song with a video clip. also consists of more traditional Indonesian music with more acoustic guitars and Balinese elements.
lieutenant can be said that this album is more idealist and progressive compared to his last album.
Since 2007, simakDialog signed to the New York-based progressive/fusion label Moonjune Records and released internationally three albums so far, namely Patahan (live), Demi Masa and The 6th Story. also released two albums on Moonjune as a bandleader. Ethnomission"s Save The Planet is his yet further exploration of the experimental jazz fusion, while his power trio Bertiga mixes that with a touch of progressive metal. mainly uses his Fender Stratocaster for recording and live performances. However, he has changed the pickups of the guitar, which are Seymour Duncan and DiMarzio X2N. Other guitars that he uses are Sadowsky and Takamine.
The guitars are connected to Rocktron effects then to a Mesa Boogie amplifier.
Ethnomission Bertiga.