
Rachel Chan Suet Kay reviews Mocca's music for their Malaysian tour. Mocca will be releasing their latest album 'Colours' in October this year in Kuala Lumpur. This band, which plays Motown but hails from Bandung, shows you that a true singer can play a flute and sing in the same song without the need to mime. They also tell stories through their songs, but the biggest story has got to be their own - meeting at college, drafting songs which didn't fit together with the rest of the band, splitting ways, and then finally uniting with kindred souls to create their very own brand of big band. Frontperson Arina (vocal and flute), Riko (guitar), Toma (bass), and Indra (drum) formed Mocca in 1999. As Arina will tell you with that cheeky smile of hers, "Mocca was a name we cooked up as we were all ready to perform, but realised at the last minute we didn't have a name". Previous albums My Diary and Friends are chronological scenes of a girl's life - the build up from establishing the setting in Once Upon a Time to finding her Secret Admirer, hesitation in Twist Me Around - then finally going steady in Me & My Boyfriend. Lest you think this is candy pop, the couple break up in Telephone, realise they were not meant for one another in When the Moonlight Shines, and move on in Rain Will Fall, Life Keeps On Turning. In Colours, Mocca recaps their musical journey throughout the previous decade. These former design students have stuck together for that long, and have formed meaningful <b>...</b>
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