Showing posts with label Gugun Blues Shelter. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gugun Blues Shelter. Show all posts

Friday, April 6, 2018

Gugun Blues Shelter - 2 albums: Soul Shaker / High Life

Previously called the Bluesbug, Gugun Blues Shelter is an Indonesian blues power trio that is a breath of fresh air in the seemingly dying Asian blues scene these days. Influenced by the likes of Jimi Hendrix, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Bettie Davies, and Led Zeppelin among others, the band forced many music fans to take notice of its powerful, flawless genre-crossing blend of blues that incorporate influences from rock, funk, and soul. With the success of their debut album “Get the Bug” (2004), they knew they had to deliever with their second album “Turn it On” (2007) and deliver they did. The album was voted as one of the best Indonesian albums of 2007 by Rolling Stone, voted the number one blues album of the year with Gugun voted as the best blues guitarist in Asia by MTV Trax magazine. After highly successful tours of the UK in 2008 and 2009 they came home to record and their third album, the self titled "Gugun Blues Shelter", in March 2010. During this period the group made 3 highly successful tours of the UK and Northern Ireland between 2007 and 2010 featuring at festivals such as the “Belfast Jazz & Blues Festival”, The Annual “Colne Blues Festival” and “Skegness Rock & Blues Festival”.

After winning the Hard Rock Calling global battle of the bands they became the only Indonesian blues band to share the main stage alongside The Killers, Bon Jovi and Adam Ants at the Hard Rock Calling Festival in Hyde Park, London. In November 2012 they embarked on their first US tour spanning the continent coast to coast.

Album: Soul Shaker
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 57:23
Size: 131.4 MB
Styles: Blues rock
Year: 2013
Art: Front

[3:34] 1. Born To Be Awesome
[3:36] 2. Captain Morgan
[4:49] 3. Acid Rain
[5:17] 4. Fire Under Water
[3:46] 5. The Good Old Days
[6:13] 6. Rock N Roll Superstar
[5:12] 7. Love Your Life
[4:36] 8. Slaves To The Nation
[6:09] 9. Funk #2
[5:28] 10. Driving Home Alone
[8:37] 11. Wounded Heart

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Album: High Life
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 47:24
Size: 108.5 MB
Styles: Blues rock
Year: 2015
Art: Front

[3:07] 1. Crash And Burn
[5:25] 2. First Love
[4:35] 3. Forgive Me
[3:37] 4. High Life
[4:58] 5. I Wanna Be Your Man
[4:21] 6. King Of The Show
[5:09] 7. Loosing Faith
[4:24] 8. Passed Soul
[3:27] 9. Ready For The Deal
[3:42] 10. Tired Eyes
[4:35] 11. Way Back Home

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Friday, January 13, 2017

Gugun Blues Shelter - Hitam Membiru

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 57:37
Size: 131.9 MB
Styles: Blues rock
Year: 2016
Art: Front

[7:08] 1. Hitam Membiru
[5:40] 2. Mobil Butut
[4:29] 3. Kandas
[4:10] 4. Jangan Berkata Dalam Hati
[6:09] 5. It's Time To Rule The World
[3:58] 6. Putus Cinta
[6:21] 7. Basa Basi
[4:49] 8. Ikuti Langkah
[4:42] 9. Bermain Cinta
[6:22] 10. 6 30
[3:45] 11. Satu Untuk Berbagi

When the previous album, GBS often plays songs in English, this new album will be more songs in Indonesian language.

"Usually we make albums for sale abroad, so to speak English, but everything is in Indonesian language and was a compilation of songs from previous albums," said Gugun. (Translated into English from Indonesian with Google Translate.)

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