Save the Planet presents a harmony you
hardly ever heard before, even for native Indonesians. They take you to a
surreal experience, as the melody is led by electric guitar with rapidly
changing composition, and the whole background is powered by suling, rebana,
kendang, and gong. Tohpati does not hesitate to share his bewildering
imagination through the second track, Rain
Forest. From simple and slow verses in the beginning to increasingly seething
in the middle, it is a song with two disparate compositions. Although the
general theme of the album is smitten with tantrum, heavy riffs and bombardment
of bass tones, voicing a deep concern about the ecological damage, some tracks
like Let the Birds Sing and Bedhaya Ketawang tuck in and could be
seen as euphemism. They help slow the pace of the album down dramatically. Also
in this track appears a Sinden, a Javanese traditional vocal style.
Gegunungan underscores the implosion of
anger concerning environmental issue and the threat that looms over us. The
intricate bass melody and rich sound of percussion work together immaculately,
very elaborate. And when you enjoy the song with a 5.1 or 7.1 sound system, you
really get the most detail out of it. The atmosphere gets psychedelic in the next
track, Drama. The musical character coincides
with the previous track, only more intense. New
Inspiration demonstrates simple tonal development, but at the same time the
deep thumps of the percussion help reminds us of its constant intensity. East west serves playful melody, the sax
responds similarly fun. And the presence of electric guitar dramatically
changes the atmosphere, by which it morphs into rock arrangement, but never go
far from its basic root as the returns to the first verse. Percussion
resurfaces in Pesta Rakyat, and followed
by rock melody highlighted by a combination set of melody of rock and country.
It may sound vexing. But perhaps the song, which means Folk Party, only
attempts to reconstruct the true and blunt depiction of the erratic event.
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