MATTER HALO IS A new sincerity rock BAND FROM JAKARTA, INDONESIA

Matter Halo consists of Ganidra Rai and Ibnu Dian. In 2015, Matter Halo released their debut album Aerotiva, an aeronautical album which was highly inspired by the Brian Eno’s Music for Airport. Aerotiva went straight to number one on the Indonesian iTunes Chart on the day of its release. During that time, Matter Halo has also produced two EPs (Pesawat Kertas & Travel Remixes), and one documentary film (Travel Is: The Documentary). 

Since their first single in 2008, Matter Halo has shared their wondrous singles to the world and it led them to the opportunity to be featured in a huge international festival in Indonesia. Starting from Java Rockin’ Land in 2010, all the way to We The Fest main stage in 2016 and 2019. 

One of Matter Halo’s tracks ‘Teralih (feat. Nadin) [Aero’s Tape]’ is featured as a soundtrack for an Indonesian feature film Posesif (2017) and nominated as 5 Best Folk/Country/Ballad Production Work by Ami Awards 2018.  On April 19, 2019, returned with a new single titled Million via Interlokal, a recording label based in Jakarta. On the same day of its release, the single was featured in worldwide editorial playlist such as ‘Best of the week’ by Apple Music and ‘Indie Shuffle’ by Spotify. 

“We have been lucky enough to be able to write the music that we wanted to listen to and find more people out there that also like the same kind of music that we enjoy.” Ibnu shared. From the self-made genre called ‘Aeronautical Folk’ in their first album ‘Aerotiva’ which is a combination of Electronic, Folk and the sound of a flight, now the duo are excited to explore some more colours and sounds that they have been liking for so long but never been showing to the audiences in the previous album.

“When the screen is turning black, are we still seeing the light?”

Nightvision is a second album by Matter Halo. It is a new sincerity record to dance to, to build a bliss station and to experience ways of surviving the chaos. It comes from months and months of labour of love & huge determination by the duo, Ibnu Dian and Ganidra Rai in collaboration with such passionate artists from local and around the world (Reuben Wu, a visual artist and member of Ladytron for the album artwork and Greg Calbi, mastering engineer of Talking Heads, Brian Eno and Bon Iver for album mastering). 

Matter Halo reinvents their fans'  experience by serving an album with two sides of musical function. Side A represents joyful music to dance to from the nostalgic era of Rockabilly, Indonesian Minang Pop/Worldbeat, Slow Swing, R&B/Soul, New Wave to Folktronica, and side B contains 24 minutes brian-eno-inspired Ambient Music. This album contains very light, useful and practical self-reminder lyrics, which is a message and reminder from Matter Halo to keep us going through the chaos of life. 

If you are looking for soul-gazing and completely functional music to spend most of your time inside the room, alone or with another, this is the album for you. Listen to Nightvision now here.