Kubit Guna, Cok Permayun and Angga Yudisha, under the tutelage of internationally acclaimed sound engineer Anom Darsana, have just released their first CD during the launch of Darsana’s recording studio, Antida, in Denapasar recently.

Titled Perspektif Bodoh (The Idiot’s View), the 11-track album talks of daily life, the environment and “about how people can see something from the perspective of simplicity. People think in far too complex a manner — why not think simply first”, says the lead song writer of the group, Kubit Guna.

An example of the album’s message cited by Cok is the notion of getting on with things, reducing procrastination in our daily lives.

“The music speaks about delaying obligations in your life, I mean delaying things really affects our lives — we need to get out there and get things done, don’t delay. So we hope listeners get positive messages from our songs,” says Cok of the song “Tunda”.

“So the song is about if you can do something now — do it — don’t delay, because if you wait until tomorrow the opportunity may be gone,” says Cok of the philosophy that drove this young band to grab every chance to build their music.

This included taking their music to the streets and playing the classic round of birthday parties, cafes and clubs around Denpasar and Sanur.

“At first we just played for friends and we met a lot of friends who supported us like a family would — they are our family, so we decided to become professional and this album is the result. It’s the community that has made us big, our community of Taman 65,” says Angga. The band says they played many a party at Taman 65 near Denpasar, including the event that resulted in their chance to grab brass ring of success.

Sound engineer Darsana was at that party. “My three little birds, yes, I first saw them play at my uncle’s birthday down in Taman 65. This was the first time I had seen them and there was this flash that these kids could be great if I can do something for them, as my music philosophy is to help young artists. That was my first feeling — that I could record them and they were motivated to do this even though at that time they were not yet professionals,” says Darsana of the steep learning curve his “three little birds” faced in mid-2010 when they first stepped into the recording studio.

“From Anom and with support from Raoul Wijffels from One Dollar for Music foundation we heard a little about the music business. Then we were offered a record — at first we were playing and writing music for fun, then after the record offer we realized this is serious so we started learning much more about the music business,” says Cok, adding that his first step into a professional recording suite was an eye opener.

“We just really wanted to make a good recording, but at first we didn’t even know how to correctly tune a guitar, and then when we stepped into Antida recording studio, it was like wow,” says Cok, who with his brothers in music have a year on released their debut album and made great strides on the long road to fame in the music business.

These three little birds, who write and arrange all their own material, are beginning to see they can build a career in music with a regular gig already booked at Danu Lounge in Kintamani.

“Into the future the goal is to build a sustainable career. Yeah, sometimes as a group we have disagreements, but while producing the CD we were together 10 hours a day every day and we were never bored, because every time we met up we have new ideas to share or new stories about girls,” said Anngaa of the rough and tumble emotional landscape that is the music business, a business these little birds of Bali prove is viable with dedication and a can do attitude.

And the band’s name? “We came up with the name no stress together, because we wanted to say we have no stress, but then we dropped in an extra s, which gave us the Spanish nosstress, which means there are stresses,” says the band that has learned the value of stress in achieving their beginnings.

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