Do Believe The Hype: Bayu Risa 's Rise and Start Again Out Now!

Yes, Bayu Risa's debut album Rise and Start Again is finally in stores now. You may heard the internet buzz on this album. Missed the hype? Check out these following tweets:

@anugrahaditya Tahun 2010 ditutup dg album brilliant dr @bayurisa Rise and Start Again, this album is a must buy!!!

@KISFMJakarta: #nowplaying @bayurisa - Percaya. Definitely on the tracks of the year list. Great job!

@EQPuradiredja On my home listening to Bayu Risa album.. Its a fresh sound of indonesian music!! ;)

@pandji This album is amazing. Its beyond cool. Gue langsung ngefans.. http://plixi.com/p/54869189

Still not convinced? Buy it and judge it by yourself! Cheers.

Introducing Bayu Risa (And Download "Love Song" Single For Free!)

Sinjitos Record is proudly present another great new artist in its roster, the dance music extraordinaire Bayu Risa. If you know him from his previous band PASTO, Bayu will pleasantly surprise you with his fresh new sound of hip-hop, funk, soul, and electro crossover.

Bayu Risa was born as Bayu Purwadi Risakotta in Depok, October 6, 1983. He was known as a member of Rn'B group PASTO. With them, Bayu released their debut album that was produced by Glenn Fredly under Rame-Rame People Records and distributed by RPM. Despite the band’s increasing fame, Bayu Risa decided to leave the band in 2008.

Shortly after leaving PASTO, in 2009 Bayu Risa released his first single “Inner Beauty” which he wrote himself. When producing his first single, Bayu Risa was helped by several friends, one of them is famous arranger David “Tities” Salanggamo that mixed and arranged the “Inner Beauty” single.

Currently, Bayu Risa is preparing his debut solo record under Sinjitos Records. The yet-to-be titled album will be released in October 2010. To give you a little taste of the album, we have picked “Love Song” as a downloadable single. Feel free to download it, distribute it, and tell your friends and foes about it. Spead the news!

Links to download "Love Song" by Bayu Risa

http://fairtilizer.com/track/132236

http://www.zshare.net/audio/7835877790c7f41c/

http://www.mediafire.com/file/d2qzdwnkamrmymd

Coming Soon

Who is this guy? You will find out about him soon.

Recap: Lantai Merah Tour, ICEMA Nominations, and New Surprises!

How how are you guys? We know we haven't update this thing for quite some time, pardon our chronic laziness.

Many things had happened in the Sinjitos camp during our days of blog-posting absence that are hopefully worth your time, if you haven't read it on our Facebook and Twitter (twitter.com/sinjitos) pages. First, we did some shows with Monkey to Millionaire, Santamonica, and The Porno in Solo, Yogyakarta, and Bogor for "Lantai Merah" tour awhile ago. It was a great success, other than the ransacking thugs in Yogya show that forced us to stop the gig before Monkey to Millionaire can play. Don't worry, Yogyakarta. We will be back! The Bogor show also featured some upcoming artists that could be in our roster soon: former Pasto member Bayu Risa, longtime noise-rockers Denial, and fresh psychedelic rock n' roll machine The Black Mustangs. You will hear more about them very, very soon. Other than them, we still a couple more surprises in our back pockets, so stay tune.

Other news is Santamonica's "Bobsessed" and Monkey to Millionaire's "Strange Is The Song In Our Conversation" are nominated in Indonesian Cutting Edge Music Awards (ICEMA) 2010 in the Favorite Alternative Song Category. Regardless what you think about such awards, just have some fun and vote for them on: http://icema.co.id/main-voting-nominator.php . We are not hoping much other than scoring some free foods on the actual award show but grabbing something home would be cool, plus it will give us and the bands a reason to post something on our Facebook pages.

Don't forget to check our merchandise blog: sinjitosmerch.blogspot.com for CDs and merchandises, including Monkey to Millionaire's Strange Is The Song In Our Conversation EP + T-shirt package that now can be ordered from anywhere! Speaking of merchandise, Monkey to Millionaire just released an extremely-limited t-shirt that can be ordered here.

We also received questions about Gugun And The Bluesbug "Turn It On" that apparently re-released by another label, we can safely say that it is released illegally without our permission. That also explains the missing detail on the album credits and non-existed band photos. We'll definitely do something about it. The actual CD is still available in stores and can be ordered online (check sinjitosmerch.blogspot.com for more info).