Comet Deathrockstar

I just stayed up writing about this for next month's issue of djakarta!, so I might as well write it down again since it's still fresh in my head. The basic concept of the album is "old guy collaborates with young brats". Kinda like the last two Santana albums, but Chrisye doesn't play guitar, so he's left to sing with acts such as Project Pop, Peterpan, Ungu, Element and Naif. Sounds intriguing, but the actual execution leaves much to be desired, and Chrisye ends up like a guest star on his own album - which wouldn't be as big a problem if he were given strong material, but unfortunately it's mostly sludgy pop rock ballads. And here's something interesting: the record company of this album (Musica Studios) have been forced to pull the albums from the shelves due to another label (Sony Music Indonesia) objecting to the placement of two of their artists' names (Eross and Tohpati) on the cover art, citing breach of contract (what that contract is exactly, I have no idea). I found this... Read Full Post..