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Saturday, November 01, 2008

Breakin' It Down!






Bravo YKLS!!! Fabulous performance, great energy! Susanna and whoever who ran the production, congratulations!

I love the education behind the show. Great job YKLS. I hope more general public (and not only music lovers) came to the show, and looking forward to raising the music awareness among people here.

Thanks Yaw, Nilesh, Chong Yew, and Tian Kiat for making the band blended well with the choir. I dont feel the band was disturbing like the first time I heard, Thanks the shadow fingers master Cher Siang! LOL

Michael, you deserved the biggest compliment of the night. Every movement they made gave me spine-tingling excitement... my hair stood dude! I even curi curi took pictures with my cellphone.

Young KL Singers are singing Jazz @ KLPac.
http://ykls.blogspot.com/

Tuesday, October 07, 2008

Inner Voices Online!


I finally uploaded all videos and audio files from our concert @ KLPac, "Let's Go Mamak"
Check it out @ "Show Reel" page
Inner Voices Official Site

Friday, July 04, 2008

Finally done with the Mamak Show official site

http://innervoicesband.blogspot.com/

Show details:

L E T ' S G O M A M A K ! The Cultural Common Ground

Aug 1st - 3rd (Friday - Sunday), 8:30 PM @ Pentas 2 KLPac
Adult RM30, Concession RM20 (students, senior citizens & the disabled)

Musicians:
Jazz Band
Julian Chan - Saxophone, Flute
Eddie Wen - Trumpet, Flugelhorn
Tay Cher Siang - Piano, Synthesizers
Daniel Foong - Bass
Martin Ngim - Drums
Fung Chern Hwei - Strings

Ethnic Ensemble
Shamsul Zin - Cak Lempong, Gamelan
KamrulBahri Hussin - Malay Percussion, Winds
Prakash - Tabla, Indian Drums
Sesatra - Indian Flute
Jimmy Ch'ng (Hands Percussion Team) - Chinese Drums
Chew Soon Heng a.k.a. Boy (Hands Percussion Team) - Chinese Drums
Lim Hui Chieh - Gu Zheng

The Flavour of Contemporary Ethnic Malaysian Music
Unity Through Music

Inner Voices heralds the beginning of a fresh new experience in the
movement of contemporary Malaysian Music.

Fifty years after achieving 1957, we observe the tremendous progress
and development achieved by Malaysia and Malaysians on a whole,
across a multitude of aspects in politics and economy. Uniquely,
Malaysia is well-known as one of the few countries worldwide that
boasts the success of multi-culture, ethnic and integration, with
communities living, laughing and prospering together. The core of
this success is built on an intricate blend of patience and
understanding which developed among the people after a long process
of assimilation over the years - from interracial marriages, fusion
of culinary experiences, educational exposure and even cross
celebration of religious events.

On the musical front however, harmonisation of what we will term as
the 'Malaysian Music' is still in its infant stage of evolution. It
is observed till today that various elements of local cultures and
its musical elements are by and large segregated individually to its
traditional cultural forms.

Inner Voices will bring the essence of the music combining four of
the main cultures present in Malaysia, bringing together Western and
traditional Malaysian instruments, to showcase and highlight the
beauty of harmonising of these elements, creating a fusion that will
possibly evolves into a whole new sound.

Let's Go Mamak will be a showcase of original compositions and
arrangements by local composer/arranger Ken Hor, and performed by a
stalwart group of local musicians specialising in various genres -
from Malay, Chinese, Indian to Western. The Musical collaboration
will be guided under the musical direction of a local saxophonist,
Julian Chan.

Let's Go Mamak features some of the most prominent names in Malaysian
Music Industry including New York-based saxophonist Julian Chan and
violinist Fung Chern Hwei, BOH Awards recipient Prakash on tabla,
Jimmy Ch'ng from Hands Percussion Team, sought-after jazz pianist Tay
Cher Siang, and the renown percussionist Kamrulbahri Hussin.

Thursday, June 12, 2008

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我问你的一句话
并不是想要一个答案
而是你的表情
一种很想将它收藏的表情

有时候
我见你的那一刻
并不是想要永远记着
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一种也很想藏起来的难舍

就这样
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然后每一次暗自神伤
凝望着你的模样
我明了什么是唯一不能隐藏

就这样
每一次将记忆收藏
然后每一次独自回想
计算着与你的时光
我再也不懂什么是可以衡量

在我心里
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Monday, June 09, 2008

Life is beautiful



Almost fell asleep at mamak... cold wind woke me up, and whispered at my ears. She says,

"Life is beautiful because it's tough sometimes. Life is even more wonderful when u are enjoying every bit of it after the years of toughness."

Nah, just being corny.


The show is getting near, Julan is coming home soon, all stuff gotta be ready by hook or by crook... Very stressful, but I savour the process. The stress makes me feel that I am alive again, maybe for the first time since I got home.
The process is never easy... setting up the direction and finding the mutual thoughts, understanding the strength of each person in this mamak gang, writer block (again) and the "Oh F*ck I'm Screwed!" realization, some kinda lost and found where we let go Mr. "Timberlake" and got back our Mr Tay, spending long hours with the ethnic guys and experimenting, every bit of revealing the syncreatic voices in this society or simply the tone I'm trying to define mamak, cruelly deleted those unwanted stuff (and regretted most of the time, duh!)... never been easy dude. The way of living I am having now is definitely making my life short and moreover I don't get a cent out of it... But ya, I'm really savouring every moment to get there.

I'm recalling those days I spent long hours with homeless around westwood and santa monica, trying to find new ideas out of their life, meanwhile, digging some inner voices of myself... those days are tough, but invaluable. The moment my tears almost dropped when one of them came to the screening of a film I scored, priceless.

Why do I want my difficult life now? maybe for the sake of determining? maybe to prove something? That I'm not sure.
For the minute of having the pricelessness again, yes I wanna feel that again, in my own country.

BTW, saw this name somewhere online...
Du, Julan (杜巨瀾). Hey he's an assistant professor! Don't play play. LOL.