Eko Ilham, Brawijaya University Employees Create Tens of nuance Academic Song

The lack of campus bands that exist in the world recording Ilham Eko attention. Since a year ago, employees LP3 (Institute of Development, Research, and Service) Brawijaya University (UB) was formed with the orientation of the band recording. He also has created approximately 50 full songs a pop genre academic nuances.

Yesterday afternoon, Eko Ilham showed a video clip song titled The School of a compact disk (CD). The song that he turn in his car, Toyota Vios, which was parked on the campus of UB. Playing a song with a touch of rhythmic pop music era of the 1970s.

If you really listened, the song reminds the listener of Koes Plus group. The difference is, the song was sung by a beautiful girl named Anandayu is also a student of Faculty of Engineering (FT) UB. Alma mater suit against the building and several Rectorate Building UB campus landscape, bringing Anandayu full appreciation of the song.

Occasionally, the exact nuance of a school-time activities and extracurricular learning and teaching in one of your favorite high school Malang-present in the video clip. "The concept is about memories of school a student will first. Also on the message of a teacher to students," said Eko explains the meaning of the video clip.

Some expressions that describe the smell of the school in the song reads like this: One two three, start asking. Friend bench at all schools. Nothing as beautiful, the time at school. The story of his love a thousand stories. Remember the message teachers, noble always. Learning science demanded, for your future. "It seems less popular yes ... But I made this characteristic. Just creating themed songs academic," said the man's birth is May 1, 1959.

Songs In The school is only one of many academic tembang have created Eko. A total of 30 songs of them created since the beginning of 2000. Whereas the remaining 20 to earn a memorable songs of which he created while still young. Once appeared in memory, the songs written in his youth and reformatted again. "Creating songs is my answer to the longing of the world music that I've struggled before," said Eko.

Before the concentration back to the music track, Eko had claimed the old vacuum from the world of music. If counted, nearly 20 years he did not touch again with the maximum music. Yet, when young, exactly as in high school Persid Surabaya years 1975-1978, he had joined the group of school children named Cipred the abbreviation of Love Peace. Besides being in the position of backing vocals, bass Eko holders. "Cipred Songs I created all," said Siti's husband Romlah, lecturer Poltek Negeri Malang (Polinema), the.

Long musical activities are not done with the maximum. Until finally, when Eko was placed in RKB (with lecture halls) UB in about 2000, he began to think again about music. "I thought, why the bands from the campus no one dared record. In fact, with the recording, students can earn money," he said.

From there, Eko and then try again to create and arranges a song. Eko also deliberately chose an academic theme song. The reason, for this band that was born from the campus is less interested in the theme songs academic. They prefer to sing songs or bands from top Indonesian musicians like Purple, Mulan Jameela, and Ahmad Dani. "I do not want to imitate the begituan. I just want an academic-themed songs. Whether it's about teachers, schools, environment, devotion to country, to schoolboy romances and students," beber father of three children.

The result, Eko has recorded 7 songs from the 10 songs on the album's first hosted by RKB Band. RKB is the band he founded with five personnel and all students. Of the seven songs were recorded, some of whom had made a video clip. Contents, in addition to the school, there is also a song titled Divine Nusantara and rays. "Remains the same genre: pop. But his music across generations," he said.

In fact, Archipelago could competitions were included in a national song copyrights held by Director General of Political Department of Home Affairs. Only, Eko less fortunate for not winning. In addition, tembang In ogled School Police Headquarters to be drug march. "We still nego. If the goal, I will change the lyrics," explained the man who loved to write this opinion.