White Shoes & The Couples Company ARE:
Aprilia Apsari : VOCAL, FINGER SNAPS
Rio Farabi : ACCOUSTIC GUITAR, VOCAL
Saleh Husein : ELECTRIC GUITAR, VOCAL
Ricky Surya Virgana : KONTRA BASS, CELLO, BASS, VOCAL
Aprimela Prawidyanti : PIANO, VIOLA, SYNTH, KEYBOARDS, VOCAL
John Navid : DRUMS, VIBES
Profile
The band started as a trio in August 2002, in an art institute in central Jakarta. Two art school colleagues turn lover from the visual art faculty, Rio (Yusmario Farabi) & Sari (Aprilia Apsari), decided to form a band together with their fellow art school student named Saleh (Saleh Hussein). This was the first formation of White Shoes & The Couples Company, which features Sari in vocal & violin, Rio on rhythm guitar and Saleh on melody guitar. The three of them made their first debut with this formation in a college event. However, the trio formation diverged from their original plan where actually Sari and Rio had keenly asked a married couple to join the band. The couple was Ricky (Ricky Surya Virgana) & Mela (Apri Mela Prawidyanti Virgana), both of whom studied classical music in the same art school. Thus was the “Couple” aspect of the band’s name made plural.
Yet the couple was hard to meet since they were busy lecturing and covering for orchestras. Several months later, the couple agreed to join White Shoes & The Couples Company with Ricky on Bass and cello and Mela on viola, keyboards and piano.
The band remained a quintet for two years, until necessity required them to enlist a drummer for live shows. Enter percussionist/vibraphonist, John (John Navid), who joined the band in 2004, and evened out the lineup to three classical music students and three visual arts students.
www.whiteshoesandthecouplescompany.org
White Shoes & The Couples Company recorded their debut album comprising 11 songs under Aksara Records, an indie records label that based in Jakarta. On August 2005, this album was launched by Aksara Records and distributed by Universal Music Indonesia in Indonesia. The album has sold over 15,000 copies, and it’s a major step for an indie band.
www.aksararecords.com
n the same year, White Shoes & The Couples Company has contributed one song in Original Movie Soundtrack “Janji Joni” produced by Kalyana Shira Films. The movie was a big hit in Indonesian Cinemas, and also the single from the band, titled “Senandung Maaf”, becoming a high rotation in every radio in Indonesia. Following this success, in 2006, White Shoes & The Couples Company join another production from Kalyana Shira Films in a movie “Berbagi Suami”. The band recorded two songs for this movie soundtrack.
www.kalyanashirafilms.com
White Shoes & The Couples Company has just signed up with Minty Fresh Records, an indie records label that based in Chicago, USA. Minty Fresh has released White Shoes & The Couples Company’s first album on October 2007 and distributed the album to the US, Mexico, Canada, Australia and Japan.
We are honoured to be the part of Minty Fresh, and to be in the same label with other great artists that already there, such as: Veruca Salt, Liz Phair, The Cardigans, The Poems, Ivy, The Legendary Jim Ruiz Group, Prototypes, Papas Fritas, Bettie Serveert, Kahimi Karie, and TAHITI 80.
www.mintyfresh.com
buy white shoes and the couples company "self-tiled" album
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