31 Mei 2009, Prefere 72 Dago Bandung

"SILENT MAY" akhirnya setelah bermain arisan, 2 Band dari jakarta Marche La Void dan Lull berangkat untuk ikut meramaikan "SILENT MAY' acara yang diusung pertama kali di Jakarta bulan maret kemarin, 

MLV yang awalnya ragu bisa main di SILENT MAY pun akhirnya berangkat juga, dengan kondisi main tidak terlalu malam, maklum band ini cukup gaek karena bukan pacar lagi yg menunggu tapi anak2 mereka...hahahahahaha

berangkat pukul 1 siang dari jakarta, dan sempat berhenti di stopan pertama di tol cikampek karena bertemu pak manager benul yg menunggu disana, dan mobil yg sangat sempit kaya pepes, memang harus memindahkan beberapa orang ke mobil pak benul.

sampai disana, sudah ada Under The Big Bright Yellow Sun yang sedang check sound, dan MLV pun mengantri, tapi setelah selesai , kita di kabarkan tidak bisa check sound di karenakan oleh waktu yg terlalu sore dan sdh masuk waktunya magrib, dan setelah itu panitia meminta untuk langsung masuk ke acara... **DIAAAR , 

Okelah, kami pun sekedar melihat rangkaian dan settingan alat di stage, dan pasang badan aja langsung untuk langsung main nanti, toh kami kan kedapatan main jam 7.10 jadi masih adalah waktu untuk ini dan itu..

setelah band pertama "ECOLIGHT" tiba2 panitia menghampiri kami dan bilang "MLV" main setelah ini yah, wahahahahaha panik dan kedubrak kedubruk...wahyu yg masih asik menyetem gitarnya , anak2 lain masih makan, dan benul pun masih mengkonvert visual artwork untuk nanti panik....

Ternyata band yang seharusnya bermain sebelum MLV adalah LULL, yang di motori oleh pakde vanco, dan mereka tidak ada kabar, jadilah kami yg naik duluan..alhasil, cukup lama dan memakan waktu dulu sebelum MLV bisa memulai track pertama, dan artwork visual MLV pun sukses terpasang tanpa hambatan..

walaupun anak2 MLV sempet tidak pede tanpa check sound, alhamdulillah semua berjalan lancar, sound di monitor luar pn tidak terasa menggulung ataupun sember. 

dan akhirnya kami pun selesai pukul 7.30, hehaha memang kami bermain lebih dari 45 menit, terima kasih untuk SILENT MAY untuk tidak mengecut kami di lagu ke 3..heheheheheh

setelah bersosialisasi kesana kemari, dan kegiatan melingkar seperti biasa, kami pun berlanjut pulang ke jakarta dengan rasa lelah, senang dan cukup puas.

marche la void ingin sekali berterima kasih untuk semua kawan2 SILENT MAY, para MC yang berhasil mengestall waktu saat kami lama diatas stage..dan band yang ada di SILENT MAY, LULL, ECOLIGHT, RETRIEVAL, UNDER THE BIG BRIGHT YELLOW SUN ( sayang kita ngga bisa liat kalian malam itu ) INDIVIDUAL LIFE ( dari yang kita dengar kalian bagus sekali malam itu ) dan ngga lupa untuk Ibend UTBBYS, Aldrin yang wira wiri ngurus MLV....jamuan kalian sangat juara , pasti sering minum milo dan latihan setiap hari nih

TERIMA KASIH SEKALI LAGI, mudah2an tidk kapok membawa MLV lagi ke Bandung....

GodSpeed You
Marche La Void

This is a review from limbo-pillow.blogspot.com
The original review is in Turkish, but the reviewer kindly translate it to English for us to post here.
You can find the translation after the original review below :

Farklı coğrafyalardan bahsederken, uzun zamandır aklımda olan bir fikri uygulamaya geçebileceğimi fark ettim. Önemli gruplara ev sahipliği yapan Avrupa ülkelerinin yanı sıra, bazılarımızın haritada yerlerini bulmakta zorlanacağı üçüncü dünya ülkelerinden çıkan gruplar, kuş uçmaz kervan geçmez bir dağ patikasında yeşeren ve paha biçilemeyen dört yapraklı yonca gibiler. Bulması uğraş ve ihtimam gerektirse de, asla solmuyor ve masallardaki şifalı bitkilerin varlığına inanmamıza sebep oluyorlar. Marché La Void, kesinlikle bunlardan biri.

Endonezyalı Marché La Void'in ilk kaydı Cacophonia, sadece dört şarkıdan oluşmasıyla uzunluk yönünden bir hayal kırıklığı yaratıyor olsa da, dört yapraklı yonca metaforuna kusursuz bir uyum sağlayacak şekilde, ürkütücü bir yoğunluk ihtiva ediyor şüphesiz. Bu yaprakların klorofillerinde tanıdık kimyasallar var; örneğin vokallerde bir Thom Yorke havası olduğunu iddia etmek çok da yanlış olmaz, saklı bir acı geçiyor ses tellerinde vokalistin. Bunun yanında grubun genel havasında da bir Radiohead havası hakim, ilginç bir şekilde Radiohead'in Low'la evliliğinden doğan bir çocuk izlenimi yaratıyor bende Marché La Void; biraz baygın, melankolik, uzak ve tüm bunların yanında zerafetle dolu bir tad bırakıyor kulaklarımızda. Bilhassa şarkı sözlerinin pek önem arz etmediği post-rock yahut slowcore gruplarının genelinin aksine, anadilleri olmamasına rağmen çok etkileyici şarkı sözleriyle de ön plana çıkıyor grup, tüm bu özellikleriyle müthiş bir denge ve bütünlük barındırıyor.

2008 sonbaharında, tüm çiçeklerin solduğu dönemde yeni bir albüm çıkarma planında olan Marché La Void, uzak diyarlardaki nadide çiçek arayışımızın ilk kazanımını oluşturuyor Cacophonia ep'leri ile, bu yüzden kulaklarımıza kulaklık taktığımızı gibi değil de, yakamıza bir çiçek kondurduğumuzu düşünmeliyiz belki de, Marché La Void dinlerken.

Translation in English :

Talking about different places, I thought I could use an approach that was tingling on my mind for quite some time. Apart from European countries that gave birth to important bands, there are other bands that blossom in distant mountains. You might need extra effort to find them, but they make us believe -medical- herbs do exist, and they never wilt. Marche La Void, is certainly, one of those bands.
 
Cacophonia is the first record of Indonesian band Marche La Void; even though the EP has only 4 songs, but it's just more reason to believe Cacophonia is a four-leaf clover. The lenght of the album may disappoint you indeed, but the depth and density is certainly shocking. The chlorophylls of this plant has familiar chemicals; you might observe a Thom Yorke-like vocal style, not only soundwaves pass through his vocal cords, but a secret pain accompanies the internal music. I, on the other hand, think that Marche La Void is a secret child of Radiohead and Low, raised by post-rock monks, and now teaching their hidden knowledge with us; the knowledge of faint, distant, melancholic and delicate music.
 
If we are to look for flowers in autumn, we don't need to go to florists, if we have a Marche La Void record nearby. Thus we shouldn't simply listen to Cacophonia, we should listen to it like putting a graceful flower in our pockets.

THEM AS PYROS


...and she wishpers in silence
of the things that have passed and died
there she sits in her wisdom
as she gaze to the velvet sky

burn down the days
and torch the night to blaze
burn down the days
and torch the night to blaze... for you

keep her secrets like millions
as she lights up the vacant fire
to her window she reasons
while she stare to the blood red sky

burn down the days
and torch the night to blaze
burn down the days
and torch the night to blaze... for you



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SCIENTIFIC DESPAIR


twist me, hold me again
choose me, for all that I cannot be
voices frozen up instead
away, away too much

as far as you go unnoticed
I can't pretend
and for all that we can haste it
you can
always fulfill thee
and when
I'm on despair

comes the rain washes away
the self aching mind
wishpering calm
and now you will be safe

safe from despair


more to envy on our path
on our hatred everyday
took it more than less to break
all alone to wear my crown

I'm on despair
I'm on despair
despair I am

------------------------------------------------------------

FORTIFIED EMPTINESS


crowning my empty with these
redish the flavour I scent
glowing out and leaking out my spine
landscapes are made of our mess

arms of the day
I'll taste you back
let my sight be yours
blind to the sight of lie dressed in crowns
with the stars arouse

break down my walls
burst against our trench
breaking down and hurting my pain
protect these, protect my own size

cruelty I lie in the ground
how am I suppose to comply
breaking is easy you'd bored
runabout runabout tripping the risk

out of sight and out of breath
take this mind I've craved
everlasting emptiness
that is all
I need


where's the sound.... here I come
wait up she said..... here we come
bottomless of emptiness it's taking time I hope
we're there in time
hope it stays
everytime

----------------------------------------------------------

DEPRIVING THE DISTANT THOUGHT WITHIN EVERYTHING THAT COMES BETWEEN


ever seen the glance of you're smile
inch of me come peeling down again
this is what I've got to go through
peeling off the floor and back again

I control......... I still can't resist

hearing you this time
all the things I can't imagine
all the things I tend to forget
and thing I tried to fake

cast apart........ away

against every words seems so wrong
yes I'm still here.... I'm still

breaking up the song
to prove that I can go
to prove that I can breath
resent that I'm alive

ever fall......... again

my nothingness that's everything
don't leave a mark........ hurts a lot


shine through the sky
leaving me crossed... I'm not burned
there's a time
I will burst....

I will....

Review by Stargazer @ kaskus.us

Mengukuhkan eksistensi dengan mengangkat tema ineksistensi?
Mungkin itulah yang dilakukan pada rilisan kegalauan termutakhir milik "barisan kehampaan" asal ibukota ini.
Coincidentaly ironic.

Tema ketiadaan atau ineksistensi memang kental terasa dalam debut EP mereka ini. Pelabelan mungkin akan menghakimi mereka sebagai pengusung Post Rock, di sisi lain kemasan Cacophonia cukup merepresentasikan Marché la void sebagai pengusung musik ambient pengiring depresi—pemuas obsesi Anda akan kegalauan.
Sebut saja artwork cover berupa siluet malaikat terbang yang mengisyaratkan bahwa tema EP ini tidak akan jauh-jauh dari kematian, kesepian, kehilangan, halusinasi, dan apakah saya sudah menyebutkan "kematian"?
Dan apabila itu belum cukup, judul-judul 4 track yang ada dalam EP ini akan menjadi pencerahan, atau haruskah saya katakan, "penyuraman"? Hmm…

Dibuka dengan "Them As Pyros", sebuah lagu yang akan membuat segala hal di sekeliling Anda seketika bergerak lambat. Tidak peduli seberapa cepat Anda sedang melaju. Melodinya yang mencekam sulit untuk diabaikan; bagai dihantam kesepian yang tragis. Tanpa disadari, Anda sudah terpekur di sudut ruangan gelap, terisak-isak sambil menyayat-nyayat pergelangan tangan berharap kesepian ini segera berakhir.
"Apakah lagu ini membuat saya bahagia?"
"Tidak."
"Apakah lagu ini keren?"
"Sangat."
Permainan gitar dan piano bersatu dengan ambient yang mencekam, mengkomando bulu kuduk untuk segera berdiri dan mengacaukan akal sehat.
"and she whisper in silence / of the things that have passed and died //
there she sits in her wisdom / as she gaze to the velvet sky..."
Cukup sudah. Saya tertekan.

Terdapat momen-momen yang memicu empati pada bagian-bagian dimana vokalis Wahyu terdengar (seperti) merintih saat mengeksekusi nada-nada tinggi di setiap track dalam Cacophonia.
Sekiranya dia tidak sedang bernyanyi, ingin rasanya saya bertanya, "Apakah kamu baik-baik saja?". Sedramatis itu.
Hal ini menjadi kekuatan penyampaian pesan yang dapat menimbulkan reaksi yang lebih variatif—ber-empati terhadap si penyampai pesan atau justru menyatu dalam kegalauannya. Pada tingkatan tetentu penghayatan Anda terhadap lagu-lagu Marché la void, niscaya pilihan kedua akan merasuki pikiran Anda. Setidaknya itu yang terjadi pada saya.
Seperti pada "Scientific Despair" yang mengandung anthem kegalauan pada klimaks lagu. Sedikit kemiripan nada membuat saya berfikir, "Apakah ini memang sekuel dari "Them As Pyros" ?". Ah, mungkin ini hanya dugaan tak beralasan.

Setelah didera depresi berkepanjangan pada dua track pertama; "Fortified Emptiness" hadir dengan tamparan di muka, dan sebuah ajakan satyr, "it's psychedelic time, pussy!"
Mendengarkan intro-nya saja sudah membuat saya memutuskan bahwa ini adalah lagu favorit saya dalam Cacophonia. Akhirnya saya bisa berhenti menyayat-nyayat pergelangan tangan dan dengan penuh semangat mengepalkannya ke udara.
Detail-detail menyenangkan dan hook-hook gitar yang dihujani kord miring serta sound keyboard dengan aksen gereja lengkap dengan synth choir ala Radiohead benar-benar memanjakan telinga saya.
Sebuah bukti kematangan bermusik seluruh personil Marché la void.

Akhirnya, kehormatan diberikan kepada "Depriving The Distant Thought Within Everything That Comes Between" sebagai penutup. Sebuah epic panjang berdurasi sepanjang judulnya, dengan ending megah dan klimaks tipikal lagu-lagu Post Rock.
Lagu ini membawa kita ke sebuah petualangan spiritual di tengah padang pasir bersama seorang shaman yang terus bergumam membacakan mantra yang akan membuka gerbang ke dunia lain.
Sakral dan trancendential.

Dan nampaknya Marché la void ingin membiarkan kita tersesat di alam lain. Cacophonia dengan semena-mena meninggalkan kita terombang-ambing di alam bawah sadar, menunggu untuk dibangungkan. Entah oleh apa.


-StargazeR-


http://www.kaskus.us/showpost.php?p=14968905&postcount=4188

marché la void's EP review


by Xenosoma (postrockerz blog team)

CACOPHONIA



"Having a different and diverse musical taste's from each of the members in a band can be a bit tricky, it could wander to nowhere or provide something interesting and unique. For Marche La Void, it's the later.

Started out with "them as pyros", Marche La Void moving it up tracks by tracks. There's some added progression after every tracks. Most notably in "Fortified Emptyness", when the guitars starting to loosen up with melodic styling of Radiohead and Psychedelic King Crimson. Then, probably one of the best final tracks in 2007 "depriving the distant thought within everything that comes between" they bring out their best in this track. The lulling guitar soundscape which work hand in hand with the deep vocal's that fits in the texture of the sounds. and from 05:00, everything's blend into one epic beautiful ending.


My criticism for this release is the use of the Ambient Soundscape was to limited. Which i think this brings out their full potential. We can hear it faded away in scientific despair and completly gone in fortified emptiness. This break the mood a bit for the EP.

Nevertheless, Ranging from the slowcore style of Low, Japanese legendary Psychedelic Ambient band Ghost. Marche La Void able to keep it in one theme, placing their diversity piece by piece subtlely into each tracks. Depression, despair is the theme for the EP, but i have to say, Depression, despair is not such a bad thing. Sometimes if you look hard enough you can find a sense of beauty in it. And beauty is happiness."


http://postrockerz.blogspot.com/

Marché la void launch first single


Setelah menyelesaikan recording EP pertama Marché la void "Cacophonia EP" lanjutan dari demo yg berjudul "praises, pleads & regrets". EP MLV di schedulekan untuk release pada pertengahan Maret 2007.

akhirnya MLV pada bulan Februari ini release single pertamanya "Them as Pyros" yang di release di Digital Beat yg saat ini berada di kota Bandung http://www.digitalbeatstore.com



showcase akan diadakan pada
hari Senin 26 Februari 2007
jam 19.00 - 21.00
Outdoor cafe BLITZ MEGAPLEX
Mall Paris Van Java
Jl. Sukajadi 137 - 139, Bandung
Indonesia

Marché la void akan berbarengan dengan The Changcutters pada acara itu

this event is held regularly
monday at outdoor cafe blitz megaplex.
so come and bring your friends.


ChEers