- Obat Rindu tells a story about a couple who misses each other in a long distance relationship
Jakarta, 4 March 20202 – A pop-folk music duo from Jakarta, Suara Kayu, released a new song titled 'Obat Rindu'. This song is a collaboration with a musician from Malaysia, Kucaimars. Kucaimars, a talented singer from Malaysia who gained recognition for his song Khayalan.
The collaboration track is a flirtatious easy listening song that delivers in a fun way, a combination with Suara Kayu’s signature style and Kucaimars vocal character. Ingrid, Suara Kayu vocalist explains that this easy-listening single delivered with acoustic guitar and trumpet tells the story of a couple in Long Distance Relationship who is longing for each other.
“Obat Rindu tells about feelings of longing that is hard to mend because they have not met their partner. This song also mention about some ‘recipes’ to cure the ‘sickness’,” said Ingrid, one of Suara Kayu's personnel in a written press release.
Collaboration is not something new for Ingrid and Dewangga. Suara Kayu often collaborates with musicians and content creators in various regions in Indonesia. The 'Mini-a-Tour', a content collaboration tour with several musicians and YouTube creators in Bandung, Jogja, Semarang, and Surabaya, is now available on the Suara Kayu Youtube channel.
“What makes it interesting is we collaborate with Kucaimars, a musician from Malaysia. For this song we explore the ideas and concept through zoom and record it separately,”said Dewangga, the other personnel of the duo.
Separately, Kucaimars mentioned how he was delighted to have the opportunity to work with Suara Kayu. “I am happy because I can bring a new concept in this song. Hopefully, this song can give a new fresh air in the Malaysian music industry as well,” said the man whose real name is Amirul Husyairi.
Both Suara Kayu and Kucaimars hope music listeners in Indonesia and Malaysia welcome the collaboration. “We are hoping ‘Obat Rindu’ can accompany you anytime when you miss someone and can make you laugh while missing her/him.”
Recently, Suara Kayu released their second EP entitled 'Kumpulan Cerita Pendek’ which contains six acoustic songs with the single 'Hahaha' in collaboration with the music duo Bianca Dimas. One of their singles UWU received good response on Tiktok with a total of 203 thousand UGC and a total of 69.6 million views.
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