Soulvibe

Soulvibe enhances a mixture of discrete music genres, spanning across hip hop, related to the frequent rap lines, RnB, pop, funk, and some other out of the box styles. But above all, jazz accounts its dominant influence, evident on the sets of chord progression formed throughout the tracks. The jazz alike composition is conclusive, and the vocal holds sway the main melody, generally speaking. Soulvibe bolsters two vocalists with middle vocal register. Despite contrastive, both voices sound synonymous, though they have already reached the consensus to separate themselves with different roles, one focuses on singing, and the other one undertakes rapping, while occasionally does the second voice too. 

The album starts with a very pop sounded tune, Your Smile. In attempt to draw spectacle, Soulvibe plays a relatively frantic chorus, dynamic beat, and very tolerant with improvisation of the vocal. The song, to say the least, lacks of presentation I am expecting from Soulvibe. However, as the second tune takes turn, the band really stands out of the crowd. Arti Hadirmu stages up a rhythmic composition as well as groovy arrangement. No wonder the song becomes the hit single of their public appearance, as they make it the first music video. Without fuss, Arti Hadirmu flows just like that, creating a commendable body moving scene. Think Twice acts as a prerequisite of the latter song. The differing point found in this song appears only on the free flow rap lines, yet selling similar musical sense. Soulvibe tends to make up a specific playlist regarding the first song until the third one. It is a smart move, as Soulvibe concentrates in giving as powerful opening ambience as it could be. 

Soulvibe continues to unveil its real musical competence to public as it plays Adinda, with its light beat style, commonly found in slow jazz tunes. This song thoroughly exploits the vocalist’s falsetto style, added by intimate rap lines, brought by the other singer. I can’t help admiring the following song, Percayalah, for its free jazz composition. The kind of jazz style is always favorable to my interest, and brought exceptionally well by Soulvibe. Thus, I am convinced that this is the nicest free jazz track they have implemented so far. Now I listen to No More, the track that has uplifted this band into benchmark of praised jazz’s young guns. It collocates to soulful beat, mild chords, flat melody in general, yet catchy. It is possible that the song becomes a hit basically because of its likable slow beat. It does not mean that the music comes secondary, but beat absolutely attributes widespread approval. 

The next track, which I closely infer to having RnB value, could make me more attentive for the strong, deep feel. I Want You Back has a significantly laid back arrangement, subtle four/four drum pattern, which later ascending as the repeated chorus takes turn. And with trumpet accompaniment, this song speaks for itself as it charms listeners, like me. Subsequently, Soulvibe offers the one and only techno dance oriented tune, Terang Jiwa. The particular seems to running quite fast, but never ceases to captures the excitement on accoount of the funk guitar rhtyhm, and chill out ambience. There goes a short description of what the album comprises.

Hence, it is about time to put this article to an end. Now here is the funny thing. Somehow I am able to connect the red line between promising upstarts who have just released their debuts, to which the premiere albums would not be complete without a sweetly composed acoustic tune. Perhaps the phenomena are simply Indonesia’s market driven, but surely they seem a little too odd if we put them as just a coincidence. Nevertheless, Biarlah, the song which I have just talked about in the beginning, marks a decent end of the rest preceding tracks.