Voice Of Baceprot: “We get messages from girls saying we've given them the courage to start a bandâ€
For the three members of Voice Of Baceprot, 2014 was when everything changed. Firda Marsya Kurnia (better known as just Marsya), Euis Sitti Aisyah (Sitti) and Widi Rahmawati were bored schoolgirls with the vague restlessness and disaffection of teenagers everywhere. Then, poring through their school guidance counsellor’s music collection, they happened upon something that would transform their young lives. There was the unpredictable, barely controlled chaos of System Of A Down. The propulsive bombast and activism of Rage Against The Machine and the irresistible crunch of Lamb Of God. In short: they discovered metal.
“It was so powerful,” recalls Marsya today. “There was an instant connection to the music but the songs and lyrics also related to what was happening around us. So, we felt that people should know about this music, especially in our area at that time. That’s why we chose to play metal music to express ourselves.”
It’s a revelatory process that a lot of musicians and bands go through but, for the three young girls who would become the women of today’s stunning Voice Of Baceprot, the very act of forming a band was not so straightforward. Indonesia as a whole is a major market for rock and metal acts. Read More...
