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SPACE GAMBUS EXPERIMENT

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  • Genre: Electroacoustic / Experimental / Minimalist

    Location IPOH-Kuala Lumpur, PERAK, MY

    Profile Views: 11890

    Last Login: 9/30/2010

    Member Since 12/1/2009

    Website kamalsabran.blogspot.com

    Record Label xperimental LAB & Teratak Nuromar

    Type of Label Unsigned

  • Bio

    .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To purchase the Space Gambus Experiment, contact Kamal at kamalsabran@gmail.com. Each CD is priced at RM25. For more information, visit http://www.myspace.com/spacegambusexperiment. You can also download bonus tracks, B-sides, outtakes and rehearsals of Space Gambus Experiment for free at http://www.reverbnation.com/spacegambus¬experiment. visit http://kamalsabran.blogspot.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A new music CD, launched December 2009, introduces the mesmerising sounds of The Space Gambus Experiment to an expectant audience. This landmark work is the result of a unique collaboration, not only between the two presenting musicians – Mohd Zulkifli Ramli (Gambus/Oud) and Kamal Sabran (electro – acoustic) but also between the traditional and the contemporary in modern Malaysian music. For this ‘experiment’ Kamal Sabran has engaged the talents of Mohd Zulkifli Ramli, to bring the uniquely symbolic music of the Malay gambus (a lute like instrument), into play, perhaps with the intention of playing point, counterpoint to Kamal’s adventurous sound making. An observant reader will have noticed the word – Space in the title of this CD, as in The Space Gambus Experiment, and maybe scratched an itchy follicle or two on its significance. To put your inquisitive minds at rest, I am not referring to some post-hippy, pseudo-psychedelia, but in this case – real Space, as in ‘one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind’, the National Space Agency and the planet Jupiter. Among Kamal’s many projects as an artist and musician, and following his partiality to meld science with art, Kamal had worked as an ‘artist in residence’ at the Malaysian National Space Agency, between 2005 and 2006. There he developed ‘Sonic Cosmic Music from Outer Space’, which was later performed at the planetarium. It was at the National Space Agency that Kamal began experimenting with radio waves, received through the radio telescope, from the planet Jupiter as it was orbiting over Malaysian skies. Some of that celestial material, along with the more traditional gambus music, graces this present album. It therefore comes as a great relief that artist/designer/musician/academician Kamal Sabran quests on the fringes of ‘noise’ and ‘melody’ to bring us this unexpected gem of a CD – The Space Gambus Experiment. Co-incidentally, Kamal, rapidly becoming a Malaysian renaissance man, has also designed the layout and cover of this visually, as well as musically, exciting CD. Out of the canon of Kamal Sabran’s musical enterprises, this CD offers what may be his most accessible compositions, with a more direct focus on instrumental melodies, intertwined with electronic abstract resonance. Certainly, with this innovative CD, Kamal has moved, ever so slightly, away from the more distinctly avant-garde Terry Riley, or, perhaps Max Neuhaus inspired sound experiments he is known for - towards a more rounded sound imagery, infinitely more palatable for the general, lay public, as well as proving stimulating for the discerning music lover. -Yusuf Martin writer, poet and art critic born in England currently living in Malaysia. ................................................................................................................

  • Members

    Records released under the name Space Gambus Experiment may include contributions from any or all of these members; the lineup is not uniform. ................................................................................................................... FOUNDER: Kamal Sabran - Electroacoustic Zulkifli Ramli - Gambus/Oud ................................................................................................................... The Collective: haneem: guitar, ambient (artist, curator) bentara: guitar, soundscape (ex- langsuyr/tro-njo-i) elly: bass (ex the hans) Munis Musa: multi-instrumentalist (Uh Uh!) andri: guitar, noise (goodbye 20th century) aizat: guitar (keladak) azmil mokhtar: drum , percussion (the Hans) Syahril Fadly: sampler (moloko) Fasyali: Rebab mamel: drum (akta angkasa) fadly Sabran: noise (Sosound) putera oud: gambus (Oud-Kestra) .................................................................................................................. Poet A Samad Said Siti Zainon Amirul Fakir Rahmat Haron Yusuf Martin .................................................................................................................. collaborators: Adam James davis (UK) Alvari Lume (Finland) Antonio Mainenti (Italy) Arcano 18 (Ecuador) Cathy Fern Lewis (Canada) Derek Crofut (US) Goh Lee Kwang (Malaysia) Gunhild Seim (Norway) Jim Leftwich (US) Lily Taylor (US) Lorenzo Pancini (Italy) Matt Middleton Crude (New Zealand) Masoud Takavar (Iran) Markus Wenninger (German) Zenmetalshirt (Switzerland) Eric Hausman (US) Pandu Hidayat (indonesia) Alan Herrick (US) .................................................................................................................. photo journalist meor Lantera Jiwa Jo ghazali jongguttouch nini marini annaloq .................................................................................................................. visual/video artist RupaJiwa Studio fadly sabran

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