Senandung Amigo: A Spoken Moment: Pure Saturday and Monkey Boots at Jakarta Water Fountain

Minggu, 14 Desember 2025

A Spoken Moment: Pure Saturday and Monkey Boots at Jakarta Water Fountain

"Yesterday, I found myself alone
In the dark and no one else
Then you came to me at night
And said 'don't worry' it's alright"

The voice of Satria Nurbambang echoed in the air of Lapangan Banteng Jakarta at night around 10.20 pm on December 13, 2025, in Jakarta Water Fountain. Turning down deep in my heart like giving me another voice to name my emptiness and loneliness around some of these months. Pure People sang fluently in the back, after we sang together the most popular anthem of Pure Saturday, "Kosong". Oh, I am crying, why their music is godamn honest for fragile people like me?

Jakarta Water Fountain

Pure Saturday

I remember, I introduced Pure Saturday for the first time through Mas SGH. Frankly, as a good friend and sometimes I notice him as a good brother, he opens many good things for my life, and forever, I will always owe him. No matter what life will go through, I set his name apart. Not for romantic terms, I know it had been done for a long time. Even sometimes, I turn up out of the blue for my own feelings. But believe me, my love feelings in romansa term for him are do really done. I respect him in a proper condition, a good pal. No tails feeling, no attachment, no cage mind. Not even just a platonic relationship at the moment if I could say. Just purely, friendship.

I need to write this because every time I hear Pure Saturday, I will always remember him. I decided to stop, he did like a postman to send the art stuff about music for my life, and that's enough, no other interpretation. So, Pure Saturday's music is mine, not his as the courier. My life is going to a descriptive scenario over a prescriptive scenario. Nobody said it is easy, but a rock science in front of us has to head on. We have many problems, like you will feel angry when hearing a song titled "Sixteen Tons" about mining workers, that say, "You load sixteen tons, what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt / Saint Peter, don't you call me, 'cause I can't go. I owe my soul to the company store..."

Thanks PS and Pure People

Okay back. This band is from Bandung, so-called indie genre, but I don't care about that, indie or not indie is not important for me right now, I prefer to enjoy music not based on genre, maybe about does it relate for me or not. And sure, Pure Saturday music is too related to my life. How does it work? It reflected in nine songs that they were sung in Lapangan Banteng: "Buka", "Later...The Saddest World Down", "Coklat", "Spoken", "Elora", "Bangku Taman", "Pagi", "Kosong", and "Desire".

Pekerja Keras

Additionally, before Pure Saturday showed, a group band from Jakarta (that's very unique for me) named Monkey Boots had shown too. They are like a workers' class band and have many fans especially in Jakarta. They use the Betawi music instrument to play their art. Consist many personnel, they have a unique pattern about the discourse that they rise, of course, about Jakarta. It feels like country style in my head, even though it calls ska, rocksteady, reggae. They sang songs like: "Sederhena Banyak Cinta", "Pekerja Keras", "Menuju Johar Baru", "Dimensi", "Tunggulah Tunggu", and "Djakarta".