The Venopian Solitude

The Venopian Solitude is a band from Selangor, Malaysia. Formed in middle 2009 by the founder Suiko Takahara (pseudonym) has been producing a humongous collection of music and published them on thesixtyone page, followed by Bandcamp and Youtube, which consequently has been garnering attention from people around parts of the world amidst the anonymity. After signing to Kasi Gegar Entertainment(KGE) in 2013, the performance expanded from a one-woman show to performing with a full-fledged band. During their time with KGE until 2016, The Venopian Solitude released an 8-songed album, titled ‘Hikayat Perawan Majnun’(Tales of a Lunatic Damsel), in March 2014, which was nominated for three categories in the prestigious Anugerah Industri Muzik 2014(Best Engineered Album, Best Arrangement in Song, Best Music Video), and two of its members won Best Hip-Hop Song for the song 'Janji' with Altimet for AIM 2016(Kemat as the composer, Suiko as the singer and co-lyricist). The Venopian Solitude has performed in various places domestically and internationally, having toured Malaysia and performed in Japan, Korea, Indonesia, Singapore, Holland and Canada. They had a European Tour in 2018, named #TVStoEURO, where they toured to 6 countries and 7 shows, and played festivals such as Sónar Barcelona as well as Fusion Festival in Germany. In 2018, three of their songs were featured in the Netflix documentary Shirkers, which garnered rave reviews from international press as well as was shortlisted for the 91st Oscars Documentary Feature category. The Venopian Solitude has performed at GMA Festival 2019 in Taiwan, and had several tours in 2019; another European tour, notably performing at Pohoda Festival, Slovakia and Sinsal SON Estrella Galicia 2019, Spain, national ATAS Album Tour, and a mini Java Island tour in Indonesia with Ruang Rupa. They released their sophomore album, Hikayat Gundik Berirama in June 2019, a concept album wherein each song is related to the next like a movie, containing 12 songs with collaborations including Lawa Nie Geng, Eyza Bahra and Asmidar. Together with KFC Malaysia, they have written a song for their Hari Raya(Eid Ul Fitr) 2019 campaign titled ‘Raya Selamba‘, where they ‘play’ fried chickens and nuggets as ‘instruments‘(MIDI trigger). Later in the year, they collaborated with Netflix Malaysia for their IGTV series called #sicreview, where local artists write reviews of Netflix titles in song form.