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.