Crossing the Railroad is the debut album by Indonesian rock band Wonderbra, released on May 3, 2007, by Liquid Records through LIMI labels.
All songs were written and arranged by Teraya Paramehta, Nosa Normanda, Asep Rachman Muchlas and Edy Sembodo with additional players such as Yuda Wahyudin in guitar and Rizki Mustafa Arisun in keyboards.
Harry Sihombing, the owner of the studio, along with Ricky Benito Siahaan watched the band performed and offered them a recording deal.
It turns out, combining Punk and Rock and Roll with a female Jazz vocalist was something quite unique at that time.
Too bad, one of their guitarist, Arya, resigned due to his inability to fulfill commitment that can ruin his academic.
Therefore, for the recording, Asep brought in an additional player to replace Arya, Yuda "Kuyut" Wahyudin.
Asep Rachman filled the bass-line with a lot of references from the Japanese band L'Arc-en-Ciel's and Nirvana's Krist Novoselic.
Nosa take a lot of references from Jimi Hendrix, Nirvana's Kurt Cobain, The Doors and Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page to filled in lead guitar and most of the songs' base.
Even when the microphone was a good quality one, and Tera had tried so hard to keep a proper distance during the recording, her vocal still off peak every time the songs got intensified.
In Crossing the Railroad album she put a lot of influence from Aretha Franklin, Janis Joplin and Alanis Morissette.
Some of them are semi-autobiographical and talked about living dangerously in Indonesia, such as "Midnight Song", "Hell's Kitchen" and "Crossing the Railroad."
Second, as a students in University of Indonesia in 2005, every day the band members should cross the dangerous railroad to go to campus.
The show was open by some of the most famous bands in Jakarta Indie Scene at that time, such as Stupid Robotic Killing Machine, Afamous, Zeke and the Popo, and an unexpected guest Gugun Blues Shelter.
[1] The show hit a great success due to the involvement of the internal manager, music writer Manan Rasudi, and Wardrobe Designer, Andwi.
[2] Nuran Wibisono, a journalist who's also a former blogger wrote in 2007, "Yesterday I performed Wonderbra's Hell Kitchen.
"[4][5] Two years after its release, Wonderbra had not got any profits from the album selling and ring back tone commercial.