Title: Headlong
Artists: Kemala Ayu
Price: IDR 50,000 (excluding shipping fee)
Description: The last time we saw Kemala Ayu in recording was in 2007 when she collaborated with Ireng Maulana in the album titled “Emotions”. She’s a unique singer with a very specific jazzy and expressive vocal style. She’s painted the music industry with her golden voice for over 3 decades. We might expect her to release a new jazz album, something that she has been living with for that many years, but what a surprise when she made a drastic turn in her new album, “Headlong”. This time she explores her ability in singing folk with some vintage nuances attached here and there. While she worked on the melodies, the Englishman Christopher Springer wrote the lyrics. Yan Machmud worked on the arrangement and did all the instruments in this album single handedly. This attempt works really well for her. One of the song “Nothing Useful to Say” was chosen to join many other country singers from abroad in the Australian compilation album “Absolute Country”. Yes we know that Kemala Ayu is a multitalented jazz singer, but with this album she proved that she can actually do more than that. A very nice, fresh and rich folk-ish album become the result. If you’re into folk where the combination of guitar and vocal sparks brightly, and if you want to feel the surprise when a jazz singer takes on the folk road and actually succeed with it, this album is for you.

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Title: JazzCoTheQue Series 1: Compiled by EQ Puradiredja
Artists: Variety
Price: IDR 75,000 (excluding shipping fee)
Description: When someone highly talented, fully experienced and have a very delightful taste whose love jazz and everything soulful like EQ Puradiredja poured his heart to compile an album, you’ll know how the result will be. Yes, this is the very first time we have a CD compilation with songs selected single handedly by EQ, presented by Demajors. This album appears as a electrifying dance musical journey where jazz meets electronica, soul, latin, funk and dub.

If you look at the songlist, you’ll find many great names in jazztronica scene from artists and labels around the world such as Kyoto Jazz Massive and Hajime Yoshizawa (Japan), Monday Michiru (USA), Nu Tropic (France), Unity (Italy) and many more in 2 CD package. It’s the jazz that can make you dance, it’s the Jazztronica with lots of flavors, it’s the Jazz in Discotheque style, it’s the JazzCoTheque. Grab this album and let’s have a party on the dance floor!

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Title: Martin Denev Meets Colonel Red and Other Survivors
Artists: Bamnes
Price: IDR 50,000 (excluding shipping fee)
Description: “This album is more eclectic, more groove..I tried to emphasize the beat and the groove, it’s more club oriented.” That’s what Martin Denev said about his new album, Bamness. In the first album Stolen Blessings http://store.jazzuality.com/products/martin-denev-stolen-blessings/ we have enjoyed how Denev brought jazz and the club beat altogether into a new height. He could place seriously cool bebop and Latins into the electro-dance territory. Now for this album he went on in emphasizing the beat, making it even more danceable than ever. For this he brought Colonel Red back and gave him bigger role. That’s why he named the album Martin Denev Meets Colonel Red, he brought in ‘Other Survivors’ including Ruth Koleva, Nuria Manzur, Ventzi Blagoev, Michail Ivanov, Vassil Voutev and Fer van Duuren and BAM!, a very cool album now is ready for you to have. 11 songs here are highly infectious and will force you to dance right away. If you like to have explorative jazz chords over the club-dance beat, if you’re into jazztronica, this album is a must have!
Interview with Martin Denev
Launching album

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Title: Dawai in Paradise
Artists: Dewa Budjana
Price: IDR 45,000 (excluding shipping fee)
Description: The guitar maestro Dewa Budjana is back with his fifth solo album after 6 years in absence. Giving the title Dawai in Paradise (Dawai in English means String), he introduced 3 new compositions along with 8 songs taken from his previous albums Nusa Damai (1997), Gitarku (2000), Samsara (2003) and Home (2005) in new arrangements. A surprise can be found right from the first song Gangga, a spiritual/reflection song written in India which featured Sophia Latjuba and Vinod Gangani. Beside these two vocalists, all star cast were joining him on this album including Indra Lesmana, Shadu Rasjidi, Sandy Winarta, Irsa Destiwi, Saat Syah, Bintang Indrianto, Dave Carpenter, Peter Erskine, Arie Ayunir, Ade Irawan, Ubiet (Nya Ina Raseuki) among others, plus the voice of his two sons, Deva and Dawai. Since the previous albums are not produced anymore, Dawai in Paradise give you a chance to have some of his best ones and also to taste his new masterpieces. Don’t miss the moment when the guitar maestro pours out his heart by letting his fingers dance on the fret, picturing the melody where jazz meets ethnical and spiritual ambience at its best. Explorative, innovative and challenging, all pack inside this CD that comes with highly artistic cover.

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Title: Hi There!
Artists: Contra Indigo
Price: IDR 30,000 (excluding shipping fee)
Description: Contra Indigo said “Hi There!” to all of you guys, presented their 1st album. After six years gracing many stages, the CD is already available in our store. Those musicians that stay in Bandung now, blow pop progressive air to the album, it’s such a proper mixture with light groovy jazz, made a nu-soul frame around the tunes here. For real, you can find colorful nuances, like they called them selves as “Rainbow of Musics”. Multiple moods and catchy lyrics are the plus points of it. Taste the youthful music with Contra Indigo!

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