2.4.09

Somewhere Above Us (SAU)

Bimbo is back, in all white. i was okay with the previous layout which was in babypink and warm grey. but this arse buddy of mine (kau salim!) complained the blog being girly and non-unisex so fine lah! there you go, playing it all safe in white.

I was laughing out loud when i read salim's recent post on L.O.R.S.A. It was a real fun post. I went to their myspace page and I was awed! Love their music. You guys should check them out too.

I then quickly buzz Salim on ym, and asked what is experimental rock, surf music? confessed that i can't tell the difference from a genre to another. and he was like "telingan belum biasa. nanti dah biasa okayla".

Anyway, talking about experimental rock..i have this one act that plays the so-called genre. Somewhere Above Us (SAU), is the name of the, I dont know how to say this, band?



As Wak (SAU) explained...

"Somewhere Above Us (SAU) secara rasminya ditubuhkan pada Januari 2009. SAU merupakan sebuah solo projek. Idea penubuhan datang dari keiniginan saya (Wak) untuk lebihbermain dengan bunyi secara lebih mendalam. Selain itu,saya juga meminati bunyian instrumental dari runut bunyi difilem dan televisyen (muzik iklan tv, drama, etc). Harapan SAU adalah untuk bermain muzik dengan kesinambungan dangabungan bunyi dari pelbagai latar belakang untuk dijadikansatu landskap bunyi yg bervariasi dan bermesej. SAU disertai oleh tiga lagi pemuzik ketika persembahan live , Alan Noctisdi posisi gitar dan Jimmy Loi di posisi drum selain bantuandari Acap (Potrait of Murder) sebagai pemain gitar synth"

Still, I don't know whether I should say, "hey check out this band Somewhere Above Us", or "hey, check out this cute guy Somewhere Above Us"??...~confused here!hehe.

Wak told me that he's not too sure what kind of genre that SAU in. (Wak, you tell me, are we having the same "telingan" problem? Hehe). But as he put it "Tapi saya lebih suka mengatakannya terarah ke Experimental Rock kerana percubaan yang dilakukan untuk membentuk lagu2 SAU itu sendiri".

Owh! So experiment does mean experiment! I thought that you guys called it experiment juz to name it, and has nothing to do with experimenting the music!

Whatever it is, SAU has one EP released entitled "May Peace Be With" which is downloadble via this link: http://www.box.net/shared/m2z7o7z358 (good news untuk kamu-kamu yang suka freebies ya!)

To tell you guys, I really dig the Our Space Instrument track. Seriously. I can give 3 stars out of 5 for that!

Feel free to drop by Somewhere Above Us myspace : http://www.myspace.com/somewhereaboveusmusic

And for those of you who stay around Klang Valley, do come and see SAU live at Uncle Bob Cafe315, Jalan Tuanku Abdul Rahman, Kuala Lumpur, 50300 on 11 April @ 9.00PM. (there will also be other performances such as Sharpshooter, The Rollicks, Fingers, Almost Iylia)

adioss!

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