Talent Worthy of Wider Recognition

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Very nice semi-math rock. Though they should get with a more adventurous drummer. Travis Orbin maybe.
 
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A workout for the chordal guitar player. He double tracked it but who cares about that.

 
Guitarist Rie aka Suzaku with violinist Jill. How can someone have so much ability with such meager success? It happens. Maybe it's because usually she has been scanty with clothing. Nihon really doesn't like that, though maybe that's changing.



I don't know how Jill chose that name but the model could be the evil Mistress Jill from Cutie Honey.
 
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For a progressive rock thing you can't beat KOIAI. To me the star is the keyboard player, though uncredited and on stage they play along with a recording. The recording engineering excels as well -- it just plain sounds great, a big advantage. Drummer Kanade Sato suddenly has developed a unique style that I can't get enough of. Based on Latin rhythms, though you would never know it from the unusually restrained drumming on this tune.

I doubt that this music was recorded live but you never know for sure.



The two guitarists play with the greatest skill. Their style is based on that of Glenn Tipton of Judas Priest. Judas Priest had really good guitar players but I was grossed out by the B&D image of Judas Priest so never listened to them. Thusly Glenn's excellence never got wide recognition until embraced by Japanese girls. (They surely were girls when they took up the guitar for the first time.)

They have international ambitions as revealed by singing in English, though often it is hard to tell. Here's some of that busy drumming I'm crazy about.



This singer left recently and was replaced. Too bad.
 
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Voice of Baceprot (V.O.B.)

(2026) This Indonesian Metal Band Is Changing Everything
Loud Society and Voice of Baceprot

Apr 14, 2026

In the conservative region of West Java, Indonesia, the all-female Muslim trio Voice of Baceprot has spent over a decade challenging expectations, pushing boundaries, and inspiring a new generation of musicians.

We joined the band during their intimate 12-year anniversary show in Garut, where they reflected on their journey from school outsiders to internationally touring artists who have played festivals like Glastonbury and Wacken Open Air. Now independent and more outspoken than ever, VOB talk about creative freedom, political expression, and why they refuse to compromise their message.

Their mentor, Abah Erza, who got Widi, Marsya and Sitti into music talks about the school system and we witness two young talented girls rock the stage.
Many thanks to Voice of Baceprot for letting uns take part in their anniversary and for being so open!
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- more V.O.B on PF

robphy said:
(2024) #1,551 from Cover songs... Sabotage (Beastie Boys).

Voice of Baceprot: https://voiceofbaceprot.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voice_of_Baceprot
The word baceprot means "noisy" in Sundanese.
- BBC 100 Women 2024: search for Kurnia
Firda Marsya Kurnia, Indonesia
Heavy metal musician

Challenging gender and religious norms is something Firda Marsya Kurnia is comfortable with, as lead vocalist and guitarist in the all-female, hijab-wearing heavy metal band Voice of Baceprot.

Singing in English and Sundanese, one of the most widely spoken languages in Indonesia, the trio’s lyrics express their frustrations with patriarchy.

There has been pushback from more conservative Muslims, who did not respond well when the band ventured into heavy metal.

But the band have come a long way since they started 10 years ago at their village school in Garut, West Java. This year they performed at Glastonbury, the first Indonesian band in the music festival’s 54-year history.


VOB ❗ Live at Head In The Clouds, LA, USA (2023)
Sabotage &t=4m10s (solos and break &t=7m00s)


V.O.B "SABOTAGE || COVER" Live in Chicago (2023)


(VOB covered Killing in the Name in #673
and Enter Sandman in #547 .)


Great Big Story: Playing Heavy Metal in a Hijab (interview in 2018)
 
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I love this concert by Hagane[steel].



They're inspired by Judas Priest. I thought Judas Priest had good music but couldn't tolerate their leather bar image. It's nice to have it all cleaned up by beautiful Japanese maidens with stratospheric skills. Who would have expected this to ever happen? Life can have nice surprises.

Note that their live sound is often bolstered by recordings. Lots of bands do this nowadays. I expect that syncing it up is done with AI. Beats hiring more mouths to feed.

Note also how short their set is. Tokyo is so overloaded with excellent music that they get only 15 minutes then it's on to the next act. That's why the stage is covered with equipment, one band stops and the next one starts right up.

It's truly hard to get tickets to these concerts. They sell out online in a few minutes. In order to buy tickets online you have to have a Japanese phone number, which foreigners are almost forbidden to have. (It's to abate scalping from Singapore and Hong Kong.) There is an obscure circuitous way to get one but you have to be in Japan to identify yourself in person. The tickets go on sale months in advance so you must be in Japan months in advance of the concert. Nevertheless through freakish circumstances I got a ticket for a show in this smallish venue, a very happy memory for me.

This concert is in Hibiya, close to the royal palace. Next to the palace in the samurai days was a little inlet used for growing hibiya, the seaweed used to make sushi. The inlet was filled in and used to build estates for the diamyo[dukes]. Nowadays there's a park there and the whole area is called Hibiya. The Godzilla statue is nearby.

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Godzilla has brought in so much foreign exchange that she has been declared a cultural ambassador. At night the towering 48-story metropolitan government building is projected upon by a short Godzilla movie.
 
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Give South Korea some too. They don't have the superskill but rock isn't about skill.



Got live (in Canada) if you want it.

 
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It appears to be fake but he has a second kalimba hidden on the other side.
 
Best blues I've heard in a coon's age. I didn't realize what a lost art it has been.

 
An awesome shuffle beat. The rest of the band is great too. This is from an instructional video.

 
What a Voice. Real or AI ? close after song
 
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Harp and singing with a Grateful Dead vibe taken a few steps further.

 


She has a great touch on the keys. It was always there but took a distant second place to the speed thing.
 
Shoka Okubo. World's best blues guitarist today?



An Okubo was dictator of Japan for a while. He was assassinated.
 
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In my Tokyo sojourn I discovered that in my case ticket price is negatively correlated with concert quality. The worst concert was almost the most expensive and possibly the best was free. I can't be bothered to do the math but outlier leverage might yield a correlation something like -0.5.

This is easy to explain. Ticket price depends on fame, not on quality. I attend mostly classical concerts. Classical music is largely about passion. Who has more passion than a teenager? And if you want to make a living as a classical soloist you'd better have all your chops by about age twenty. So the best concerts of all tend to be given by the winners of classical music contests who as of yet enjoy no fame. The free one was an exhibition by students at the Gedai high school, a division of the number one music school in Japan. They were setting the air on fire, those very dowdy high school uniforms and thick eyeglasses notwithstanding.

Now this sample is not at all random. I go to a lot of effort to find these wonderful concerts. I stumbled over that high school exhibition by accident : it wasn't publicized at all. A random sample might very well find a positive correlation between price and quality. But why should I care about that? I don't.

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Hillary Hahn.​

Oh, that expensive concert. A Hillary Hahn recital at Tokyo Opera City. Many would chose her as the best in the world. No passion that night. Zero. She recently had a baby so the fire burns low while tenderness arises. Well HH, you are a professional classical violinist with the heaviest of reps. I expect value in return for my one hundred dollars. If you don't feel it, fake it. That's your job. Oh, congratulations on having become a mother. It seems to have put you at peace.
“Fake it” sounds a little harsh. :smile:

Then again I remember going to a Dire Straits concert for 145 Danish kroner. Divide by 6 for the amount in dollars. It’s become crazy.

EDIT: Ech, it might have been 245. Still though.