MY LIFE BY GHEDE CHOKRA
My Life
- from Ghede Chokra’s
- by Shark Move
Guitarist and vocalist Benny Soebardja slipped into his music career with a garage-rock outfit called The Peels. His band enjoyed modest success in Indonesia, Singapore and Malaysia, but it was his second venture (with keyboardist Soman Loebis, drummer Sammy Zakaria, vocalist Bhagu Ramchand and bassist Janto Diablo) that established Soebardja as one of the most progressive rock musicians in the archipelago. Shark Move was created as a means to pass the time during the group members' student years studying at Bandung's Technical Institute (ITB).
The quintet formed in 1972 and played local underground venues for a few months before traveling to Jakarta in 1973 to record its masterpiece, the seven-track Ghede Chokras (translated from Sanskrit as "Great Session"). This rare album, pressed and released on Soebardja's self-financed Shark Move imprint in a run of less than 1,000 copies, won over Western audiences on a recent Shadoks reissue of Soebardja's autobiographical tour-de-force My Life.
The quintet formed in 1972 and played local underground venues for a few months before traveling to Jakarta in 1973 to record its masterpiece, the seven-track Ghede Chokras (translated from Sanskrit as "Great Session"). This rare album, pressed and released on Soebardja's self-financed Shark Move imprint in a run of less than 1,000 copies, won over Western audiences on a recent Shadoks reissue of Soebardja's autobiographical tour-de-force My Life.
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