Reshmonu launched his first fully Bahasa Melayu album, titled "Harapan" in 2009, for which he gained the award for Best Engineered Album in the 16th Anugerah Industri Muzik held that year. This full-length album, which was published exclusively on his own online record label R Records, consists of twelve tracks with a various mixture of Samba, Latin and many more Afro-Latin themes. This album featured collaborations with other homegrown names such as Noryn Aziz, Hunny Madu, Caprice, Adeep from Fabulous Cats and Mawar Berduri from Ahli Fiqir.