Steamboat Party

The recent escapade in Cheras.

Big thanks to Joe Kidd and Ricecooker for this feature:

http://ricecooker.kerbau.com/2006/05/21/steamboat-party-at-studio-in-cheras-kl/

Tatsuya Yoshida in Singapore and Bangkok

Tatsuya Yoshida of notably Ruins fame (others include Koenji Hyakkei and occasional collaborator with Keiji Haino) will be performing in Singapore and Bangkok in June.

Here are the dates:
Friday, 2nd June 2006: Idiom at About Cafe, Bangkok
Saturday, 3rd June 2006: Hadaka: C at the Singapore Art Museum

Studio in Cheras KL: Steamboat Party

Steamboat Party

Saturday, 20th May 2006
8pm till whenever
ALL WELCOME!

studio in cheras kl
75, Tingkat 3,
Amber Business Plaza,
Jalan Jelawat 1,
Cheras 56100
KL

Performances by

Kok Siew Wai (electro primitive)
Azmyl Yunor (folktronikoutsidra)
Ronnie Khoo (glitch)
Less Wood Than They Would Guess (bunyi-bunyi)
Yong Yen Sin (solo saxophone)
Au Sow Yee (Performative Cinema (or the documentation of one))

Admission by donation

Further details:
Yandsen 012-9800-428 / yandsenyahoo.com

Flyer: http://www.yat.ch/emacm/studio/flyer.jpg
Map: http://www.yat.ch/emacm/studio/map.jpg

YYP at SAND Festival (Hong Kong)

Yeoh Yin Pin will perform at the 1st SAND festival in Hong Kong on the 24th of June. The festival features performances by sound artists, noise musicians, improvisors, laptoppers, and what looks like a black metal band. Organised by the good folks at White Noise Records.

Date:
June 24, 2006
Time:
starts at 4pm
Venue:
para/site

Website:
http://www.sandfesthk.com/

"The festival aims at presenting contemporary music such as drone, noise, sound art and free jazz by artists with different cultural backgrounds. By combining different acts on one night, we wish to present the diffusion of this art form across different geographical areas. SAND will continue in presenting challenging music from all around the world to Hong Kong audience in the future."

Azmyl Yunor shows

Azmyl Yunor gigs during the month of May:

Thursday 11/5/2006
MOONSHINE
Laundry Bar, The Curve Shopping Center, Mutiara Damansara, Selangor
9.30pm onwards
FREE
with False Opus, Ariff Akhir, Stonebay and Rizal Hefni
http://moonshinekl.blogspot.com/

Friday 19/5/2006
KL SING SONG MINI COLLEGE TOUR 2006
Taylor's College Subang Jaya, SS15 Subang Jaya, Selangor
7.30pm onwards
RM 5
with Broken Scar, Ferns, Ida Lisa, The Sofa Sessions, Izzy, Jerome Kugan and Tan Sei Hon
http://troubadourskl.blogspot.com/

Sunday 28/5/2006
CENTRE FOR INDEPENDENT JOURNALISM: WORLD PRESS DAY
Central Market Outdoor Stage, Central Market, KL
12pm - 6pm
http://www.cijmalaysia.org

Links:

http://www.myspace.com/azmylyunor
http://www.azmylyunor.com/
http://www.myspace.com/azmylyunor
http://www.i-bands.net/audiovault/bands/1638/

Ronnie Khoo and Tan Kok Hui in SG

Ronnie Khoo and Tan Kok Hui will perform in Singapore as part of Furniture during the latter half of May. More details to follow soon...

Ciplak on myspace

Ciplak (Azmyl Yunor, Aziz Ali and Ronnie Khoo) has a site on myspace.

Visit:
http://www.myspace.com/ciplaktheband

Xing-Wu CD-r series

Tham Kar Mun has started a CD-r series that will be a constituent of Xing-Wu Records.
The first 3 releases scheduled are full-length works by Yandsen, Yeoh Yin Pin and Tham Kar Mun. Stay tuned.

In the meantime, visit Xing-Wu website at:
http://www.yat.ch/xingwu

GLK Release on Herbal Recs

New on GLK's Herbal Records:

Goh Lee Kwang: s.o.s. vol.1 (8cdr)

s.o.s. (sound of solitude) was a project undertaken by Goh Lee Kwang during his fellowship at the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart Germany.

Links:
http://www.geocities.com/soundsofsolitude/
http://www.geocities.com/herbalrecords/

New Releases on Goh Lee Kwang's Herbal Recs

why not ltd (www.geocities.com/whynotltd)
00019 Ishigami Kazuya:: siz u ka
00010 Lukas Simonis:: collaborations
00025 D.O.G.O.D. :: Squareon

herbal live (www.geocities.com/herbalrecords/hl)
004 mike bullock: great marsh
002 billy bao: auxilio
003 jeff gburek & raven chacon: jesus was a wino

EMACM space/HQ

EMACM is in the process of putting together its own physical space that will also serve as its headquarters. This space is situated in Cheras (which is located just at the fringes of Kuala Lumpur).

New release from GLK

Basque musician and artist Mattin's internet label desetxea has published Goh Lee Kwang's
A Perfect Rain. Click the link below to download the release in .ogg format:

http://www.mattin.org/desetxea.html