Mellyana - Yamko Rambe Yamko

Album Title : Yamko Rambe Yamko
Artist : Mellyana
Music Director : Makoto Kubota
Year of released : 1991
Producer : Makoto Kubota
Label : Wave Records Japan

Recording traditional songs are not new. But if its songs had re-arranged and given a touch of R & B, Hip Hop complete with rap, MELLYANA MANUHUTU a.k.a. MELLY MANUHUTU was the pioneer in Indonesia. MAKOTO KUBOTA is a famous musician and producer from Japan who are interested to making the Indonesian traditional songs albums with a touch of western music to release in Japan. With the help of talented musicians from the GUEST MUSIC community, the album was made with the tittle YAMKO RAMBE YAMKO. Through a series of processes that eventually elected Melly, a young model and singer that was not yet known. Melly who since her childhood singing in Ancol at that time was being prepared to be a lady rocker, but a challenge to record this album had change her music genre to this day. Recording process carried out in Jakarta, Singapore and Yamato (Japan), and managed to change the songs are already very familiar like YAMKO RAMBE YAMKO, CINGCANGKELING, CUBLAK CUBLAK SUWENG, PARIS BARANTAI, and SURILANG to become a new version : sounds very modern and fresh, with additional English lyrics and melody that beautify the songs, and incredible arrangements for the period. When released in Japan, this album was successful and Melly became famous ther. Melly also became a model in Japan. Success in Japan, the album was finally released also in Indonesia and comparatively successful. Because of the success of this album, there was a trend of the Indonesian music industry at the time : traditional songs in the modern version, or traditional songs that had re-mixed with disco music.

Track List

1. YAMKO RAMBE YAMKO
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2. CINGCANGKELING
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3. CUBLAK CUBLAK SUWENG
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4. BUNGONG JEUMPA
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5. SIGULEMPONG
S. Dis Sitompul
6. SURILANG
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7. PARIS BARANTAI
Anang Ardiansyah
8. BURUNG DALAM SANGKAR
May Sumarna

YAMKO RAMBE YAMKO

E yamko rambe yamko
Aronawa kombe
E yamko rambe

Teemi noki be
Kubano ko bombe ko
Yuma no bungo awe ade

Hongke hongke hongke riro
Hongke jombe hongke jombe
Jombe riro

We’ll sing this song for you
Yamko rambe yamko
We’ll dance together
Together forever
Yamko rambe yamko