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Gratify your Whim for Nonsense musicGuruchathram Ledchumanan
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GURUCHATHRAM LEDCHUMANAN invites you to Heineken Music's Whim: A Nonsense Music Project day after today when Southeast Oriental bands amuse with far-from-junk music.
FOR those of you lamenting the Beyonce show's detour to Jakarta, fret not. There's a slew of local bands which can preserve your booty shaking without anyone's protest. Heineken Music presents Whim: A Crap Music Project with Singapore's Great Secret agent Experiment headlining together with Malaysia's own Furniture and electronic digital whizz offspring B4C at Zouk day after today.
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Starting the festivity is superb Secret agent Experiment, Singapore's reply about the Killers, with their introspective guitar meditations propelled by dance floor percussion. They describe their sound as "a champagne- fuelled orgy of powerpop, indie, rock and dance, notified by everything except J-Lo".
The band aspects Saiful Idris on vocals and guitar, Fandy Carlos on percussion, Khairyl Hashim on bass, Magdelene Han on key-boards and Tune on guitar.
Their debut album Flower Show Riots was published in Sept. It was manufactured by Leonard Soosay and the late, great Wayne Thunder Seah from inside the Suns. The album is devoted about the reminiscence of Wayne who rest in peace this yr. The mastering was done by Howie Weinberg in Ny. Weinberg has worked with anybody from Muse, Franz Ferdinand, Paradise and Beastie Blokes to Billy Corgan.
"The minute we got to Howie's workshop, it was insane!" announced Fandy. "It was packed with silver and platinum records which went fence to fence! His studio had sound system of all dimensions and to listen our music impending of the identical sound system that our heroes really love Smashing Pumpkins and the Red Hot Chili Peppers used was simply splendid," mentioned Fandy.
Regardless their foreign affects, Great Secret agent Experiment worked closely with regional Singaporeans in forming their album. bop nam "Working together with Leonard was great. He is a legend within the Singapore music landscape, but has bop nam nil airs whatsoever.
We also worked very much with Wayne who was co-producing the album with Leonard. Wayne was splendid to vi nam work for. The album would not sound prefer it does without him," mentioned Saiful.
They did their country proud when they turned into the initial Singaporean band to play at New York's milestone Central Park, site of middle of the night muggings and the Simon and Garfunkel reunion concert.
Not pleased with which title, in Parade this yr they ripped up the stage at the South-by-Southwest Bazaar in Austin, Texas. All over again, they made history by being the initial Singaporean band to operate at the bazaar.
Do not let the Texans have all that joy. They could have yielded the existing US president, but our Southern Neighbor didn't have resort to pop is based on order to amaze and awe the group.
Their singular Class a Really like Affair 2007 commences really love early post- punk U2, but so therefore evolves about the evocative Sam's Town-era Killers. A sort of Really like might have been a track by Scots Franz Ferdinand fuelled by an Ash-like youthfulness. the 2 minutes guitar sole midway in the course of the title track exists for nil reason other than to remind us of the glory hours of Noel Gallagher.
Siti within the City posesses a riff reminiscent of The Knack's My Sharona. It tells a tragic tale of a neighborhood gal who's "out with her men at the disco, and she is got seven missed calls.
Her mom's attempting to reach her since her minor son's got a bump, all he needs is his momma but she is not there." It can sound enjoy a case worker's objection within the Britney Spears infant custody listening, but we certainly have all seen babes really love Siti stay within the nightclub drinking too much afterwards closing time. Great Secret agent Experiment has a familiarity with such after-hour denizens of the night which they carry to life as characters during their danceable tunes.
Not to be outdone by the Singaporeans, regional blokes Furniture are going to add their blend of cinematic shoegazing about the fold. The band evolved from an additional band called Run (Uprise Unto Non secular Heaven) that had its roots within the regional Chinese indie landscape.
They leaked their debut album Twilight Chases the Sun in 2005. Furniture comprises Ronnie on vocals and guitar, drummer Alang, bassist Adrian, guitar player Wan and keyboardist Alia.
"We're impacted by modernist 20th-century time-honored composers really love Schoenberg and Crate and the pre-postmodernist minimalists namely Phillip Goblet and Reich. We also really love Timbaland and Timberlake. We require to work for Sofia Coppola and score her film," mentioned Furniture's Ronnie.
"I look for the works and opinions of groundbreaking 20th-century art a lot more motivating than declare, uncovering Arcade Flare or Struggles," mentioned Ronnie. "Schoenberg began his atonal work afterwards his spouse left him for one more man. He realised which occasionally extreme conditions call for extreme ways of expression.
"I sketch an analogous conclusion to the world we are living in. Its disarray and doubt occasionally can not be rightly described with a courteous and restrictive tonal sensation," mentioned Ronnie.
Furniture perceives other regional bands will get their sounds heard. "You must opt to remain beneath the radar and lastly alter not a single thing, or brighten up and play,," mentioned Ronnie.
He also perceives which the regional public relations must do more in disclosing regional artisans should they do not overexpose the reacts. "The regional landscape would enormously have the benefit of more goal music authors who do some former research and steer clear of generic uncertainties," lamented Ronnie.
"We certainly have such a big amount of great bands with symptomatic but they inevitably become homogenised and misrepresented thank you to lazy noting and improperly commercialized corporate ceremonies," mentioned Ronnie.
"Many indie bands don't have the general public relationships savvy to arrive up with a respectable Squeeze the apparatus. It is the Squeeze who is going to support escalate them from merely being an additional regional band, but without the pointless beyond- ballyhoo. Individuals will find through which, so merely probe deeper for who they are really," mentioned Ronnie.
Electronica act B4C would no question have various high-tech devices at their dumping for bop da such a probing. They comprise ChinaRED, Blastique and never. 4.
"We began last yr like an experiment to observe how far we could push the term "live" throughout a DJ context. At which point, we were tired of the customary configuration that is openly used as it pertains to playing dance music. Nil harshness to all that DJs out there, but we wanted something else. Something which can blow individuals' brains away," mentioned Nil. 4.
They cite Trent Reznor as a chief influence. "He is incinerated the guideline books and chiselled new ones out from rigid granitic," mentioned Nil. 4. B4C believe the regional music landscape is primed for its day within the sun. "There're individuals out there looking around counties so obscure and previously unheard of, steering wipe off the pummeled path and veering off into less treaded sizes; looking for something else to gratify their sensory faculties, satisfying their neuroses!" mentioned Nil. 4.
The exhibition happens at the Veranda Pub, Zouk, 113, Jalan Ampang,. Confession is free and Heineken Lager buckets would be completely ready at a distinctive promotional price of RM45 for 5 bottles. Fulfilled Hour is 5pm to 11pm. For more info,.
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