Kala Cinta Menggoda is a 1997 album by 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 singer Chrisye

Chrisye

Chrismansyah Rahadi , better known by his stage name Chrisye , was an Indonesian progressive-pop singer and song writer of mixed Chinese-Indonesian descent. He was born in Jakarta on 16 September 1949, and died there on 30 March 2007 following a long battle with lung cancer. He recorded 21 solo...

, with arrangement by Erwin Gutawa

Erwin Gutawa

Erwin Gutawa is an Indonesian composer and father of Gita Gutawa. In 1985, he started his professional music career by joining the jazz band Karimata, later becoming an independent composer in 1991. As a composer, he won the 1992 Midnight Sun Song Festival in Finland together with Ruth Sahanaya...

. It was released by Musica Studios

Musica Studios

Musica Studios is an Indonesian music company based in Jakarta, Indonesia. Known as Metropolitan Studios in the 1960s and then Music Studios in the 1970s, Musica Studios was founded by Yamin Widjaja, the owner of an electronics store. Musica is one of the largest music companies in Indonesia...

. It received numerous awards, including two Anugerah Musik Indonesia

Anugerah Musik Indonesia

Anugerah Musik Indonesia , also known as AMI or colloquially AMI Awards is an annual Indonesian major music awards...

 Awards, in 1998; the music video for the title song "Kala Cinta Menggoda" won the Asia Viewer's Choice Award that same year.

Production

Kala Cinta Menggoda was recorded by Chrisye, with Erwin Gutawa handling the arrangement

Arrangement

The American Federation of Musicians defines arranging as "the art of preparing and adapting an already written composition for presentation in other than its original form. An arrangement may include reharmonization, paraphrasing, and/or development of a composition, so that it fully represents...

.

The song "Ketika Tangan dan Kaki Berkata" was based on the Islamic view of the Last Judgment and verse 65 of Surah Ya Sin, which reads:

"Today we shall seal the mouths of the infidels, and their hands will speak to us, and their feet will bear witness to what (evils) they used to earn."

The lyrics were written by Taufik Ismail after Chrisye asked him to write lyrics to go with a melody he had written.. The recording of "Ketika Tangan dan Kaki Berkata", the last song recorded for the album, required numerous takes because Chrisye would break down in tears after singing a couple of lines. Eventually, Chrisye was able to finish one take the day before he left for Australia. He later wrote that it was one of the most important songs he had ever sung, but he could not sing or listen to it again; he called his emotions in the song the most "sincere" he had ever had while singing.

Track listing

Release and reception

Kala Cinta Menggoda was released in November 1997. Two music videos were produced for Kala Cinta Menggoda, for the songs "Untukku" and "Kala Cinta Menggoda". Both explicitly referenced Javanese culture, with young, rich urbanites wearing Javanese-style masks in "Kala Cinta Menggoda" and Javanese wayang kulit and court dancers in "Untukku".

Kala Cinta Menggoda was well-received, leading to Chrisye being voted Indonesia's "Most Wanted Male Singer" of 1998. Chrisye said that he was glad that people still liked his song. The music video for "Kala Cinta Menggoda" won the Asia Viewer's Choice Award in the 1998 MTV Video Music Awards

MTV Video Music Awards

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. It also won two prizes at the 1998 Anugerah Musik Indonesia

Anugerah Musik Indonesia

Anugerah Musik Indonesia , also known as AMI or colloquially AMI Awards is an annual Indonesian major music awards...

 Awards, for Best Album and Best Producer.

Kala Cinta Menggoda has been reissue

Reissue

A reissue is the repeated issue of a published work. In common usage, it refers to an album which has been released at least once before and is released again, sometimes with alterations or additions....

d twice, once as a CD in 2004 and once as part of the Chrisye Masterpiece Trilogy Limited Edition

Chrisye Masterpiece Trilogy Limited Edition

Masterpiece Trilogy Limited Edition is a compilation album from singer Chrisye which is a collection of all of Chrisye's albums issued between 1978–2004...

in 2007.