ON THE LOOKOUT - PART 2: RANDOM BROTHERS BY BLOOD
Apparently what they say about an apple falling not far from its tree is true. Born and bred in the capital city of Indonesia, brothers Randy Danistha and Nara Anindyaguna are not your ordinary musical duo. Raised by a musician father, they started playing piano from an early age.
Nara and Randy stepped into the music industry with different approaches. The eldest, Randy, started his career by becoming a keyboardist to Nidji, an Indonesian pop band that rose to popularity in the 2000s.
Not wanting to live under his brother's shadow, Nara followed in his brother's footsteps by creating a project called Mjolnir, a dark disco-tech duo, with his longtime friend Catra Darusman.
Nara knew all along that his biggest interest is to be the man behind the curtain; his passion in producing then led him to create an audio post-production service called STEVESMITH together with his big brother.
As if they're not satisfied enough with their audio post-production project, whose clients include some of the biggest corporations in the Indonesian movie and commercial industries, the two musician brothers are taking a new step in their musical journey. Using modular synths, they embark on a new project called Random Brothers by Blood.
Globetrotter Magazine: When and why did both of you decide to start a project together called Random Brothers By Blood?
Nara: Actually, we started just in 2017, we are very competitive, especially when it comes to our own album/project. Myself, for example, had Mjolnir and Randy had Kronutz. We made a bet [to finish a song first], and the winner would get a free ticket to Australia. But neither of us finished, although we worked for years already. We eventually sat down together while listening to one of our tracks and we ended up finishing it together. When it took only a day to finish the whole thing, we realized that we should be doing something together instead.