Dendan Setia (Nins)

Woohoo Voice of Baceprot on the cover of NME

>Voice of Baceprot are no strangers to blazing their own trail. (...) Along the way, these three young, Muslim women have faced hostility, wilful misunderstanding and contempt – all of which has hardened the band and their resilience.

>No wonder VOB named their debut album after the Indonesian word for a body of igneous rock that cuts through other rocks. “To us, ‘retas’ means to open or smash boundaries, much like our musical journey so far,” Marsya tells NME. “We hear people questioning what genre our music falls into. It’s so easy to be fixated on a certain idea of metal and I think we shouldn’t get bogged down by all these boundaries, as long as the music is honest.”

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https://www.nme.com/features/the-cover/the-cover-voice-of-baceprot-interview-retas-3478108

Hard as rocks: Indonesian metal trio Voice of Baceprot keep breaking boundaries

Touring in the US in support of their debut album, Voice of Baceprot are turning a new page in a remarkable story – read their NME Cover story

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Aug 7, 2023 at 2:46pmWeb
Show threadTom RitchfordAug 7, 2023

@cendawanita I'm sure you know this given your user name, 😃 but for English speakers, it would be pronounced "bacheprot".

(Indonesian is very pronounceable for European speakers because it's so very regular and similar in spelling to European languages. Only the "c" symbol is really different from what you would expect. It also has a simple and elegant grammar, very easy to learn overall.)

Perhaps they will come here to Negara Belanda, I'd love to see 'em!

Show threadDendan Setia (Nins)Aug 7, 2023
@TomSwirly
Hahaha yes I do, but a good note to leave for others 😂 (in recent years I really began to see how tricky the c is because as you say, it's very regular for us, there's no other sound for it just 'ch'!)
Show threadEric G.Aug 7, 2023
@TomSwirly @cendawanita The word stresses are the toughest for me because they are easy to forget. Even with otherwise correct pronunciation, I can render myself unintelligible because I have the word stresses messed up.
Show threadDendan Setia (Nins)Aug 7, 2023
@ericg
Idk if this helps but for some reason this really struck me as useful - I went to a Shakespeare theatre workshop once and I finally understood what's iambic pentameter there. Anyway, the instructor was demonstrating how weird it is if English isn't stressed in iambic meter so they did it in trochee and I was like, oh that sounds like how Malay + Indonesian speakers would sound if their English is still accented in their mother tongue. Give it a try, maybe that'll help 😄
@TomSwirly