8 is the eighth full-length studio album by Canadian/Indonesia

Indonesia

Indonesia , officially the Republic of Indonesia , is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Indonesia is an archipelago comprising approximately 13,000 islands. It has 33 provinces with over 238 million people, and is the world's fourth most populous country. Indonesia is a republic, with an...

n avant-garde metal band Kekal

Kekal

Kekal is a heavy metal band formed in 1995 in Jakarta, Indonesia. According to Allmusic, Kekal was one of the first heavy metal bands from Indonesia to make international inroads, and according to Keith Kahn Harris was one of the few extreme metal bands from Southeast Asia to ever make more than a...

, announced on June 23, 2010, and made available for purchase on January 23, 2011. While the band has no officially active members, former members Jeff, Leo, and Levi all contributed to the album. The album was set to be released by Whirlwind Records during December, 2010, on CD

Compact Disc

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 and as a digital download

Music download

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, and on December 15, 2010, the album was available for pre-order, which included an offer of free shipping within Europe

Europe

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 up to December 24.

On February 19, 2010, Jeff announced that he had posted a music video on Youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-jL4t1ZMBw for a song entitled "Tabula Rasa". At that time, the new album was still untitled. On March 24 2011, it was announced that Tabula Rasa was included on a compilation

Compilation album

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/sampler album

Sampler album

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 by Sonic Seducer

Sonic Seducer

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 Magazine.

Track listing

1. Track One
2. Gestalt Principles of Matter Perception
3. A Linear Passage
4. Tabula Rasa
5. Private School of Thought
6. The Regulars
7. Departure Gate 8
8. Heartache Memorial
9. Let Us Blend
10. Open World
11. End Unit of The Universe

Guest contributors

• Jeff Arwadi – Electric
  Electric guitar
  An electric guitar is a guitar that uses the principle of direct electromagnetic induction to convert vibrations of its metal strings into electric audio signals. The signal generated by an electric guitar is too weak to drive a loudspeaker, so it is amplified before sending it to a loudspeaker...
  
   and acoustic guitars, vocals
  Singing
  Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...
  
  , drums
  Drum kit
  A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
  
  , TR-808, theremin
  Theremin
  The theremin , originally known as the aetherphone/etherophone, thereminophone or termenvox/thereminvox is an early electronic musical instrument controlled without discernible physical contact from the player. It is named after its Russian inventor, Professor Léon Theremin, who patented the device...
  
  , analog synthesizer
  Analog synthesizer
  An analog or analogue synthesizer is a synthesizer that uses analog circuits and analog computer techniques to generate sound electronically. The earliest analog synthesizers in the 1920s and 1930s such as the Trautonium were built with a variety of vacuum-tube and electro-mechanical technologies...
  
  , vocoder
  Vocoder
  A vocoder is an analysis/synthesis system, mostly used for speech. In the encoder, the input is passed through a multiband filter, each band is passed through an envelope follower, and the control signals from the envelope followers are communicated to the decoder...
  
  , samples
  Sampling (music)
  In music, sampling is the act of taking a portion, or sample, of one sound recording and reusing it as an instrument or a different sound recording of a song or piece. Sampling was originally developed by experimental musicians working with musique concrète and electroacoustic music, who physically...
  
   and field recordings.
• Azhar Levi Sianturi – Album artwork
• Leo Setiawan – Additional guitar
  Electric guitar
  An electric guitar is a guitar that uses the principle of direct electromagnetic induction to convert vibrations of its metal strings into electric audio signals. The signal generated by an electric guitar is too weak to drive a loudspeaker, so it is amplified before sending it to a loudspeaker...
  
   on "Departure Gate 8" and "Heartache Memorial"

Production credits

• Jeff Arwadi – Assembly, programming
  Programming (music)
  Programming is a form of music production and performance using electronic devices, often sequencers or computer programs, to generate music. Programming is used in nearly all forms of electronic music and in most hip hop music since the 1990s. It is also frequently used in modern pop and rock...
  
  , manipulation
  Manipulation
  -As underhand influence:*Crowd manipulation*Data manipulation*Market manipulation*Media manipulation*Parental manipulation*Psychological manipulation-In a physical context:*Card manipulation*Coin manipulation*Hat manipulation*Joint manipulation...
  
  , arrangements, mixing
  Audio mixing (recorded music)
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  , mastering
  Audio mastering
  Mastering, a form of audio post-production, is the process of preparing and transferring recorded audio from a source containing the final mix to a data storage device ; the source from which all copies will be produced...
  
  
• A. Levi Sianturi (a.k.a Harshgriev) – Artwork
  Cover art
  Cover art is the illustration or photograph on the outside of a published product such as a book , magazine, comic book, video game , DVD, CD, videotape, or music album. The art has a primarily commercial function, i.e...
  
   and illustration
  Illustration
  An illustration is a displayed visualization form presented as a drawing, painting, photograph or other work of art that is created to elucidate or dictate sensual information by providing a visual representation graphically.- Early history :The earliest forms of illustration were prehistoric...
  
  
• Soundmind Graphics – Digital layout

External links

• HM Magazine news update. At the time of the article, the album was still untitled