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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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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Jakarta Blues Factory - All I Wanna Do

Size: 100,2 MB
Time: 40:48
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2016
Styles: Funky Blues, Blues Rock
Art: Front

01. Aku Tak Perduli (3:54)
02. Let Me Go (4:05)
03. All I Wanna Do (4:18)
04. Cruisin On A Highway (4:46)
05. It's Been A Long Day (3:34)
06. Lonely (4:34)
07. When You Love A Woman (4:39)
08. Senyummu (3:37)
09. Make It Funky (3:48)
10. 564 (3:28)

JBF was formed in 2012 from the idea from ??Fawdy, the guitarist and also vocalist. As a means to support the deliver of the aspirations in the music world without certain limitations , Fawdy and Soebroto are working together joining the band JBF with the freedom of creativity and musical ability of exploring each accompanied by a commensurate responsibility.

By relying on the structure of a typical arrangement of Fawdy song, They combined blues music genre with the elements of jazz and funk as a special allure which is the mainstay of JBF .

All I Wanna Do

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Ginda Bestari - Soulful Desire

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 53:21
Size: 122.2 MB
Styles: Electric blues
Year: 2015
Art: Front

[3:53] 1. Keep It Real
[5:32] 2. Time Will Tell
[3:51] 3. You Gotta Let Me Know
[9:27] 4. Long Way
[6:13] 5. Make You Feel Alright
[4:05] 6. Free Your Mind
[6:14] 7. Beauty Of The Broken Heart
[3:08] 8. Brown Kitty
[7:13] 9. Night Turns To Blue
[3:40] 10. Yellow On Black

Ginda Bestari (born 20th October 1986) is an Indonesian guitarist, singer, songwriter, composer and session musician. His style of playing the guitar is smooth, soulful and sophisticated. His debut album titled “Soulful Desire” (2015) is mainly blues, with some jazz, funk, soul and rock ‘n’ roll. He works and is supported with the best musicians Indonesia has to offer like Yance Manusama (Bass), Rayendra Sunito (Drum) and Harry Anggoman (Hammond Organ, Rhodes, Piano). The album is produced by none other then Rayendra Sunito.

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Ginda & The White Flowers - Let Me Try

Size: 125,2 MB
Time: 54:00
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2015
Styles: Electric Blues, Blues Rock
Art: Front

01. Tahan Dulu (4:21)
02. Sophisticated Lady (3:22)
03. Always On My Mind (5:40)
04. Let Me Try (Feat. Gugun Gbs) (3:26)
05. Happiness Is Priceless (5:26)
06. Why Baby (6:24)
07. F-3 (4:01)
08. Cinta Kok Ngerusak (4:51)
09. Do What You Love (6:14)
10. When Love Needs A Break (5:08)
11. When The Madman Talks (5:03)

It all started when a friend requested band member Ginda to perform in a blues community event in Bandung, West Java, Indonesia. He then formed a trio, which ended up being one of the bands in demand. After their last performance in Jakarta International Blues Festival 2011, Ginda And The White Flowers (GTWF) entered the recording studio to record their first album, called “Let Me Try” Collaborating with Gugun from Gugun Blues Shelter, in their first single “Let Me Try” (also the album title), GTWF tries to provide music fans with something new and fresh. With GTWF participation in the Indonesian music industry, the increasing number of artists we were going through the international music market. And at The Venetian Macao's International Jazz and Blues Competition 2012, GTWF occupies the 4th position after the Spoke (USA), Red Groove (China) and The Main Squeeze (USA). ~bman

Let Me Try

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Asep Stone Experience - Golden Soul

Size: 192,7 MB
Time: 82:32
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2015
Styles: Heavy Blues Rock
Art: Front

01. Golden Soul (1:16)
02. I Wanna Show You (4:22)
03. I Got No Reason (4:50)
04. They Don't Need (5:11)
05. Get My Together (3:30)
06. I Do It Tomorrow (4:07)
07. Flower Child (3:51)
08. In My Blood (7:39)
09. To My Love (4:48)
10. Wild Flower (2:56)
11. Stone Free Every Day (5:56)
12. One Of These Days (5:22)
13. When I Say (3:57)
14. Happy (3:20)
15. Flower Heaven (4:39)
16. Crazy (4:14)
17. Hoochie Coochie Man (5:17)
18. Voodoo Child (7:08)

Asep Stone comes from Bandung, Indonesia. He discovered there at a young age his natural talent for the guitar and the music. He began to make music in various musical styles. He gave his first concert at the young age of 14, before 20,000 spectators, in his hometown of Bandung on Gladiator Rocks Festival.

He has played around Indonesia and settled in 1993 in England down. With its specially composed music he toured with the band was founded on the spot "Stone Free" all over England.

In 1999, Asep founded the band "Purple Haze", whose musical performance with former original bassist of Jimi Hendrix, Noel Redding, was broadcast on BBC. This in an auction of original guitar of Jimi Hendrix in Cork, Ireland. Asep aroused great interest in Noel Redding, to give more concerts together. However, Noel passed away unexpectedly a short time after their meeting. To great acclaim from fans, the band "Purple Haze" continued to tour through England. The band broke up finally on the year of 2004.

In 2007, Asep moved on to Switzerland, where he formed his current band "Asep Stone Experience". The band gave several concerts throughout the country, as well as repeatedly on the lakeside promenade in the city of Zurich, which earned her a large fan base.

Asep Stone was known here as the born-again Jimi Hendrix. With his band "Asep Stone Experience" he plays diverse Jimi Hendrix songs, but has also begun to include new original compositions.

Golden Soul

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Various - The Blues In ...Asia

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 75:11
Size: 172.1 MB
Styles: Contemporary blues
Year: 2005
Art: Front

[3:55] 1. Cannonball - Suzie Wong
[3:55] 2. The Unseen Guest - Listen My Son
[3:20] 3. The Curtis King Band - Sweet Home Chicago
[3:26] 4. Julian Mokhtar - Walking The Dog
[4:22] 5. O'Donel Levy - Guinness World Book On The Blues
[4:35] 6. Universal Blues Band - Get On The Blues Train (Gospel Version)
[6:09] 7. Matthew Cadillac Cooper - Need Your Love So Bad
[3:48] 8. The Big Easy Band - Hotstuff
[5:00] 9. Rita Lestariani - Ilusi
[3:54] 10. Al & The Coholics - Scratch My Back
[4:47] 11. John Hanson - If You Be My Baby
[4:06] 12. Suzuki Band - Hard To Handle
[4:50] 13. Celluloid - Spring Weather (Mandarin Version)
[2:34] 14. The New Vintage Blues Band - The Stumble
[3:50] 15. Santa Band With Special Guest Dragon - Yakitori Boogie
[4:54] 16. LRD - Mojo Workin'
[2:15] 17. Mojo Freddie - Whammer Jammer
[2:47] 18. Matthew Cadillac Cooper With The Curtis King Band - Tianmi Beijing (Sweet Home Beijing, Mandarin Version)
[2:35] 19. John Chee - Been Down So Long (Part 1)

"Blues in ... Asia" contains 19 tracks from all over the region - from Japan to Indonesia, from Singapore to China, from Vietnam to India, and most countries and territories in between! Of course, you'll hear traditional American blues in English, like "Sweet Home Chicago" and "Walking the Dog", but also be ready for some cool Asian interpretations of the Blues, sung in Indonesian ("Ilusi"), Mandarin ("Spring Weather" and "Tianmi Beijing"), and even Japanese ("Yakitori Boogie"). Also, you're sure to be captivated by the sounds of some unique Asian instruments interpreting the blues! Enjoy!!

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