Friday, 16th February 2007: The Ricecooker Shop & Bau-Bau Cafe’s Opening Party!

Please pass the news around and do come!

details below:

MEOR

Unless you’ve been living in a cave or a hole for the last 5 or so years; surely, Meor requires absolutely none whatsoever introduction.

Launch of new album: Yang Terlintas Di Fikiran.

An article on the new album published by The Star: here

THAM KAR MUN & YEOH YIN PIN

Old punk fiends. Just like Peter and Caspar Br??tzmann, only unrelated and (errm) not German. But got white beard (last we checked Ah Tham’s chin area) and of course the customary gile dahsyat sax+gitar+soul action.

METEOR FEATHER (Singapore)

Outsider free-improv/avant-rocking folkies from the island city down below. Not unlike No-Neck Blues Band in sonic alchemy, zeal and defiance. Here’s your chance to exorcise, vent and project ALL of Malaysia’s long-standing inferiority complex or accusation of cross-border arrogance towards the Island Nation that left us August 9, 1965 and had
the audacity to steal the international port-of-call thunder from Pelabuhan Kelang. Bastards! Bring eggs or flowers.

myspace.com/meteorfeather

YANDSEN & ROBERT GOMEZ

Globally well-travelled troubadour meets equally well-travelled (at least within local borders) Chinese medicinal wares peddler/transport merchant from Cheras. As to what this encounter might eventuate, we have the remotest clue. Maybe Gomez will bring out the trusty sitar or a bass guitar (with the likeliest chance of overkilling the bass bombast with efx+pedals Farez Maharajah Com stylee). Any which way Gomez goes, expect Yandsen to pummel BRUTALLY by way of some hot skronk ‘n’ skree action with his reeds of choice.

SCREENINGS OF 4 FILMS BY AU SOW YEE AND KOK SIEW WAI

a) Au Sow Yee

Scene Under the Autumn’s Stream
16mm transfer to dv, colour hand made, silent Hand made crusted life of what is beneath. Mapping out memories and lives decayed. A short exercise on the dimming light of autumn.

Blushes of Memory
S-8mm transfer to dv, b&w hand process. A time in exile.

b) Kok Siew-Wai

Duet (2003)
08:34 min/color/sound
DUET is a sound meditation piece with a human voice and the sound of water pipes running through the building.

In solitude, a camera-eye (2006)
04:25min, video

The nocturnal eye of the camera looks out over a quiet street in the suburban America. It is also a night in Malaysia with quiet fireworks. A camera poem.

(The latter video was an entry for the short film category at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, 2007)