Heap Heap Sounds of Imogen Heap

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Aku kembali :D

Yes. With a big grin from ear to ear because i've just got back from Jakarta, witnessing Imogen Heap Ellipse World Tour, March 31st!! Huhuhu, aku begitu bahagia.. Have I mentioned that i've just got back from Jakarta, witnessing Imogen Heap Ellipse World Tour? No? So I will tell you : i've just got back from Jakarta, witnessing Imogen Heap Ellipse World Tour!!!

Regardless jalan jauuuh plus loncat moda transportasi sana sini buat ngambil tiket, ke kos mbak Meisya (she's being my caretaker at Jkt, as always), dan nyari venuenya.. the show was awesome! Persis sama seperti yang kuharapkan. Bahkan mungkin lebih, karena Immi membawakan seluruh lagunya dari Ellipse (minus Earth dan Half Life) plus Goodnight And Go (yang dibilangnya udah 3 tahun ngga pernah dibawain live), Speeding Cars (!!!), The Walk (!!!!), Let Go (-nya Frou Frou), Just For Now, The Moment I Said It dan.. Hide and Seek... Oh good God. Semua lagu yang aku suka dari previous album dia bawain! Jangan tanya bagaimana aku survived sepanjang konser.. Baru masuk venuenya, liat set stage lengkap dengan pohon kelap kelip dan piano transparannya aja I felt like I'm about passed out. But I'm not. Of course I won't!!

Oke mari kita recall dari awal. Shownya telat sejam! Katanya sih sengaja soalnya Jakarta lagi macet. Lumayan bikin bete, tapi mungkin memang konser di Jakarta selalu begini ya? Sekitar jam 8 lewat, show akhirnya dibuka sama penampilan gitarisnya Immi, Back Ted N Ted. He's quite good, musiknya mirip Immi jaman album I Megaphone. Trus dilanjut sama keyboardist/DJ/sampler atau apapunnya Immi (saking versatilenya) : Tim Exile. Orang ini agak sinting nampaknya, dia ngesampling segala macem sumber suara (suaranya sendiri, beatboxing bahkan suara penonton) secara realtime, dan dimainin saat itu juga. And the tempo was perfect. Ngga ada yang meleset sedikitpun.

Then Immi's showed up. Ketika dia muncul di stage, dengan dress, legging, feather-padded-shoulder serba hitam, flat-shoes bling-bling (yang sepertinya dipakai di seluruh Ellipse World Tour?), hairstyle acak-acakan, lei, dan tentu saja segala macam mic dan controllernya yang terattached di seluruh tubuh, aku menjadi norak : badan rasanya lemes semua... I just can't believe I finally see her with my very own eyes! Ah tetapi diriku ini tidak seheboh abege2 di belakang sana kok. Yang heboh teriak-teriak ga keruan tapi nyebut nama Immi literally "I-Mo-Gen"... Darl, it's "ɪmədʒɨn"...

Ah tapi ngga papalah. Toh nyatanya semua yang dateng bikin ambience jadi meriah. It's nice having sooooooo many Immi-fans around, about 3000 ppl there, setelah bertahun-tahun cuma menyanyikan lagu-lagunya seorang diri. Even in this radio station! Dan Immi, dengan showmanshipnya yang funnily-clumsy-with-a-very-british-accent itu berhasil bikin kita semua ketawa-ketawa melulu. She also asked us to sing with her. As a backing vocal at Hide and Seek, and as the music instrument in Just For Now! That was fun. And that was what I called showmanship.


Immi menyanyikan semua set malam itu dengan sempurna. Ted, Tim and Chris as the drummer joined her at stage and they performed as a full band. Termasuk seorang cellist asli Indonesia bernama Rachman yang sengaja diaudisi untuk melengkapi cello part di lagu The Fire dan Canvas. Karena Immi perform secara full band, jelas aransemennya agak beda dari versi recording. Tapi karena akunya udah terlalu banyak nontonin video shownya di Youtube (karena udah helpless mikir Immi ga bakal mampir ke Indonesia), jadi sedikit banyak aransemennya lumayan mudah kutebak, meski beberapa lagu-lagunya secara misteriously dimulai dengan segala sumber suara yang aneh2, mulai dari burung2an, bel dan selang plastiknya itu :D But absolutely still gave me shiver to see her LIVE on stage. She's just sooooooo fine.

So, said who musik elektronik-ambient-triphop-nya Immi itu ngga mutu? Maybe yes, if they just play the record. But these people, Immi and her band... Mereka secara real-time me-looping suara yang baru sekian detik keluar dari mulut/alat musik/sumber bunyi-bunyian yang mereka pakai, pakai Monome dan segala macam sequencer yang ribet itu, trus dicombine sama lirik lagunya secara utuh (yang dinyanyikan live) dan alat musik pendukung yang dimainkan secara manual s.a piano, gitar atau drum. Semuanya dilakukan secara live! Real time! Pusing kan? Aku ngeliatnya juga pusing. But the output.. Was so fuckin good. Ngga kalah sama sekali sama produk recording, matter of fact lebih bagus!

Immi juga sebenernya bisa menyanyikan semua lagunya secara accoustically-beautiful pake piano yang dia mainin sendiri. Immi can play keyboards, piano, cello, clarinet, guitar, drums, keytar and a lot more. So IF you thought that Immi only be able to sing with her "electronic-crappy-playback".. you WRONG. Immi could do more than that. *biasa, fans selalu membela idolanya secara berlebihan* :p

Errr anyway... I took several pictures and videos, but since I'm just a BIG fans with a TINY resources.. The quality wasn't too good. I only armed myself with a cellphone camera! So, while Immi's never stop moving and I have to zoomed in, the pics were ridiculously blur. See the pic above? There you go, that blurry. And I can't stop hating myself because later I discover my cellphone camera has a 'sport-mode' for a fast-moving object! After I tried it out, this mode captured moving object (like.. Immi walking from side to side, for example?) miraculously better. And I didn't use it at the show! Stupid.

Oh, don't ask about the videos. I made kinda record that me myself will hate it if i found it on Youtube. It's shaky (because of my euphoria) and polluted with my own voice (because I can't help not to sing along). So, it's gonna be my own milestone of youth, I'm too shame to share the videos to you.

So that's it. I guess I spoke too much.
I'm sorry I can't help it :p
Because the show was AWESOME. Immi ROCKS.



And Immi said she will GET BACK here in Indonesia...
... around end of this year!



See you when I see you again Immi :D
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