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A.F.F.E.N. (stands for Anatomy For Fabulous Emergency Noise) is an Indonesian rock band based in Bandung, West Java. Despite the wide range of genres they play, the band describes their music as experimental/post-rock. The band was founded in July 2011 in Beat n Bite Café where the first members of the group, Hariz, Elmo and Babam used to hang out and hold a jam session.

Formation
Hariz Lasa met Elmo Rinaldy and Babam Bramaditia in a regular open mic event at Beat n Bite café in Bandung, Indonesia. Despite their varied musical background where Hariz Lasa was a host of The Beatles Night in the same café, Elmo Rinaldy was an additional player of an indie band The KUBS, and Babam Bramaditia is a member of an electronic band Local Drug Store, they were gravitated to each other through their particular interest in post-rock music and decided to form A.F.F.E.N. after many jam session in the open-mic event, lining Hariz on the lead vocal and acoustic guitar, Babam on lead guitar and backing vocal, and Elmo on rhythm guitar and backing vocal.

Later they met bassist Mochammad Ifsan (Ichan) and drummer Rama Mazaya and they had their first stage in July 2011 where they performed their first single, Like Life Easily Ended. Not long after their first appearance Rama decided to quit the band due to his study and later replaced by Hari Nurdin who become their drummer until now. In September 2011 A.F.F.E.N. entered the recording studio and officially self-released their lead single Like Life Easily Ended as a free-download in their SoundCloud page. The single received a welcoming reaction from indie-music listeners in Indonesia and the band started to receive more invitations to play in musical events.

After performing on several stages, A.F.F.E.N. was introduced to cellist Ebong Permana who is known as the first indie music cellist in Bandung and also plays in Nada Fiksi.

Musical Style
Among A.F.F.E.N. member’s earliest influences are mostly post-rock bands like And So I Watch You From Afar from Ireland, Toe from Japan and Sigur Rós from Iceland. Later the band began to experiment a wider range of music genre, receiving influences from Temper Trap and Copeland. An Indonesian widely-known music webzine, Deathrockstar.info, described A.F.F.E.N.'s music as a mixture of Temper Trap and Foster the People with a touch of Young the Giant.

Songwriting
Since their formation A.F.F.E.N. have lyrically been initiated by Hariz. However, even though Hariz is responsible for writing nearly all the lyrics, songwriting is a collaborative effort, and all the band members have roles in the process. Usually they started with Hariz writing the lyrics and giving it to Babam and Elmo to be given some melody and later to Ichan, Ebong and Hari. This process is not a rule nor a tradition, since some other songs by A.F.F.E.N. was also initiated by Babam, Elmo or Ichan.

Their inspirations in songwriting are daily phenomena that people usually miss such as suicide, child abuse and other social conflicts that are usually underestimated. They transform their opinions from their point of view about these phenomena into their lyrics and music

Band Members

 * Hariz Lasa – lead vocal, acoustic guitar (20011–present)
 * Babam Bramaditia – lead guitar, backing vocal (2011–present)
 * Elmo Rinaldy – rhythm guitar, backing vocals (2011–present)
 * Mochammad Ifsan – bass guitar, backing vocals (2011–present)
 * Hari Nurdin – drums (2011–present)
 * Ebong Permana – cello (2011–present)

Discography

 * Like Life Easily Ended (Single, Indonesia: Self release, United Kingdom: BFW Recordings, 2011)
 * Emily (Single, Self release, 2011)
 * Same Sky (Single, Self release, 2011)
 * Home (Single, Self release, 2011)
 * Last Lullaby (Single, Self release, 2011)
 * Another Dream Story (Single, Self release, 2011)