My Mocca

On Saturday, May 5th we launched our latest album, “Colours” in Selasar Sunaryo Art Space, Bandung, Indonesia. This is the second time for us to launch our album in this serene place. Our debut album was also launched here three years ago. Thus, this place has significance in Mocca’s history.

The launch was wicked! The audience was so energetic, we had a blast! By the end of the show we played twenty songs from all of our albums. This was one of the longest show we’ve ever done. We couldn’t stop saying to ourselves that we should always do gigs in such intimate setting because it felt so good.

We were so glad that finally we managed to pull the show off especially after being postponed for several times. The preparation was so complex, and we wanted to make sure that everything goes well so that our fans are happy.

Thanks to all of our friends who have helped preparing this album launch. Without your help it couldn’t be as successful as it was.

By the way, at the end of April we finished the production of the music video of our latest single, “The Best Thing”. Josh, the director, did a very good job. Working with him was so enjoyable and we are very satisfied with result. Catch the music video on MTV Asia, we hope you like it as much as we do.

At last, we have a chance to give updates on what we have been busy doing in the past few months.

Since December last year we have been focusing our time and energy on writing and recording new songs for our third album. The brand new album, “Colours”, is due for release in March 2007. Recorded with many extraordinary musicians from Sweden and our beloved city of Bandung, Indonesia, this album promises to be exceptional. They are Pelle Carlberg (Edson, Sweden), Dewi Lestari, Ant (70’s Orgasm Club), Bez (Olive Tree), El William (Vincent Vega), Elang (Polyester Embassy), and Rekti (The S.I.G.I.T.). The album is full of intricate layers of sounds of trumpet, clarinet, piano and violin.

We spent two months recording at two studios, Aru and Massive, and then mixed it at Studio 8. All are located in Bandung.

As usual we took turns in the recording process at Aru Studio. Indra went in first to lay down his drumbeats. Then followed by Toma for his bass, Rico for his guitar, and finally Arina for her vocals. Sometimes to wrap up the recording of a song we included a few additional instruments.

Towards the end of the recording of the album, with four songs to left to do, we wondered how much further can we push this album to make it stand out from our previous albums. Finally we were struck by the idea of doing live recordings. We got excited with that, and decided to do all four songs live in the studio. The results invigorated our album and very much satisfied all of us.

In the end, we completed fourteen songs for this album. All of them will be packaged in a beautiful cover designed by Indra, Riko and Iyo, our friend, who is a very talented graphic designer.

We are very excited about our upcoming album, and we hope you are too. Don’t miss it!