Divide, Indonesian Post Hardcore

DIVIDE is a Electronic - Post Hardcore band from Indonesia, more precisely from the Southern Jakarta. The name "DIVIDE" was taken from the concept of God and Human and with other Human Being. 

"The Gap between the rich and the poor, racism, and all things that inspire us in writing our songs and lyrics." Divide.

In 2009 Dhenaldi Savirio Firmansyah, Wilfried Arief, Kreshna Narendra and Fikrie Arief decided to make a band and ask Danindra Kamil (ex-HellYeahForNothing) and Gemuruh Adhityatama (Orestes) to join and finally named themselves as DIVIDE.

In less than 1 year they have successfully released their first mini-album called "Commas In Period" which was released on the internet on December 25, 2010 and has 6 songs are interesting but unique. Two of their hit single from this album is "Come Here, We're Going Down" and "The 4th".

Divide introduce themselves by playing at many gigs in Jakarta and its surroundings in their first year. In the second year they managed to have performed outside Indonesia, in Perth Australia (January 2011) and Singapore (June 2011) as the opening of the American hardcore band, Emmure.

Youngbloods Tour Divide completed in 2011 by Monsters In Living Flesh (Singapore), Sky On Eye & Dying Last Fashion through several major cities in Indonesia, afterwards they were preparing to fly to Singapore to record their first full-album with the Singapore famous producer Roland Lim (Make them Suffer, Arturo Chaos, Monsters in Living Flesh, For Better Endings) and they will start recording at the end of the year. After the recording is complete, they will be out again on tour to support the release of their full-album in 2012.

They went on tour with In League (Australia) in Macbeth Indonesian tour 2012, And released their first full length album entitled “The Sun, The Moon, And The Truth” on july 2012.

Past Member :

• Dhenaldi "Dendeng" Savirio : Vocal (he once to resign due to study in Japan, and was replaced by Faddy, in 2013 he joined again)
• Kreshna "Bolo" Narendra : Lead Guitar
• Danindra "Uda" Kamil : Guitar & Clean Vocal
• Willfred "Will" Nugroho : Bass
• Fikrie "Fik" Handoko : Synthesizer & Sampling
• "Nicko" Rahmat Prabowo : Drum

Former Member :

• "Faddy" Alkatiri : Vocal

Their Albums and Singles :

Commas in Period (Ep Album 2010)

Commas in Period Remix Album (Remix Album by Jakarta Heat 2011)

Titik Dalam Koma (Single 2011)

The Sun, The Moon and The Truth (The First Full Album 2012)

Here their website : DIVIDE

World First Rock Band "The Tielman Brothers"

The Tielman Brothers

In world music industry, Indonesia actually has one of the legendary rock band is quite global, even the band is arguably the oldest rock band in the world. However, if the Indonesian people were asked, who exactly rock band or singer oldest rock in the world? Surely most of those who were asked to answer the bands that come from abroad, such as The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, or the singers such as Elvis Presley, Bill Haley, Fats Domino and others. But who would have thought actually the oldest rock band in the world turns out to come from Indonesia, the Tielman Brothers.

The Tielmans Brother is coming from Indonesia, Indonesian people should certainly be proud because it can be said the pioneers of rock music was derived from the Indonesian people. The Tielman Brothers formed of 4 young people who come from the Moluccas (Maluku). Originally the band was called The Timor Rhythm Brothers and later changed its name to The Four Tielman Brothers, because it consists of 4 Tielman brothers, Andy Tielman (guitar, vocal) Reggy Tielman (rhythm guitar, vocals), Phonton Tielman (double bass, vocals ) and Loulou Tielman (drums, vocals).

Their musical talent was passed down from his father who used to play music and career of The Tielman Brothers is quite good, because both of their parents Herman Tielman and Flora Lorine Hess not only support, but also acts as the manager of The Tielman Brothers.

The Tielman Brothers career began when they started performing together with the song and the dance area in Surabaya in 1945. They appeared in a party to impress friends from their father because it can play a song that is quite difficult as Tiger Rag and 12th Street Rag. It was then they get a lot of offers to fill in some of the events in other areas. Even Tielman Brothers have performed in front of President Sukarno at the State Palace, Jakarta, Indonesia.

Their move more easily when they start to move to Breda, Netherlands. There they began to enter the studio, and The Tielman Brothers started exploring rock music abroad until they arguably provide a fairly devastating effect in the world of rock music scene at that time.

At that time, the appearance of The Tielman Brothers amaze the public, especially the Netherlands and Europe. It can be said that wild stage attraction and attractive as well as playing guitar and double bass as he ran, jumping and rolling was first performed by The Tielman Brothers, and also of course the attractions drum solo demo.

Dutch public call music played by The Tielman Brothers were 'Indo-Rock'. The distinctive feature of the Indo-Rock itself is, domination guitar, an instrument that was introduced by the Portuguese when it comes to the Dutch East Indies. Portuguese guitar style that eventually became known as the keroncong music by The Tielman Brothers combined with Hawaiian music, Country, and Rock 'N Roll. They hear the music from the radio United States, which is distributed from the Philippines and Australia.

Until now the name of The Tielman Brothers can still hear and also we see, because it could be said that Indo-Rock appeared since their popularity is the pioneer of the birth of rock 'n' roll. Hopefully Indonesian musicians can bring Indonesia to the world scene and public favored by the world, like The Tielman Brothers.