Interview with Bangkutaman

bangkutaman They are a band of three that plays 60s-revival kind of music. On their attractive show performances, the usually-drunk vocalist/frontman, Acum, resembles those daily-smoking-pots hippies, but he wore Batik instead of the typical flowery-pattern clothes.

With a piece of paper and a pen, we tried our best to get Acum answers these questions, because apparently, under the local alcohol drink of lapen, he could only answer in English.

Which one of your songs would be a good representation of the band?
She Burns The Disco ? Titik Balik

What have you been listening to recently? Are there any other bands that have influenced your songwriting for Bangku Taman?

Francois Hardy ?En Vogue?. And our Influences for the band are: Bob Dylan, The Byrds, The Monkees, and Procol Harum.

A lot of great bands that we love tends to be on an indie label, and with their limited distribution power, would you consider signing with an obviously corporate major label
Nope, I don?t like major label

List the songs that you would like to put on, if supposively there would be a Bangku Taman?s Greatest Hits album.

  • Catch Me When I Fall
  • Satelit
  • Miracles Should Not Come So Soon
  • How Strange
  • Fantasi
  • Kera
  • Robby (The Graveyard is What You?ll See)
  • Solomon Songs (B-side version)


What is an honest music?

An honest music is.. A music that came with no pressure, let is flows freely, start smokin? pots and take the 1st chord.

Do you discover any good new band lately?

C?mon Lennon

Please recommend us some of the best songs you had written ever. And please tell us the story behind it.
Robby (The Graveyard Is What You?ll See). It?s about a son who rebel his father for the customs and traditions he had since he was born.

Lastly?
There?s no last, the music still continues ?

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