Didn’t end up playing this show, both Joe & Bullet got waylaid by jobs!

SANKARA | myspace.com/mindfuckingboy
-The Alter Ego of Mindfuckingboy

Sankara is a solitary act armed with a distorted bass and accompanied by haunting vocals, combining man and machine and noise and doom to the effect of dispelling traditionalism back into the bleak hungry womb of nihility. The music is fierce and frightening, as though one were teetering at the brink of a great void.

Inspired by Adi Sankara, the Indian philosopher who extended Hinduisms’ ever-expanding branches even further into all-containing, all-embracing horizons with Advaita Vedanta – the belief that our experience and awareness of this world is born out of an undefinable, unknowable energy of which we are made. Thousands of years ago, he radically urged people of the world to open up their minds, reject ritualism and look past the surface to see the things hidden in the depths of our souls.

Sankara is an attempt to explore these dimensions through the elements of music and sound, which, combined, have the power to simultaneously engage within an instance all binary opposites: haunting and magical, unseen and phenomenal, abstract and yet replete with the infinite possibilities of all things.

+ Supporting Acts

XERPENT | myspace.com/xerpent

INFINITE DELAY | purevolume.com/infinitedelay

THE ABANG GUARD

FB Event Page: here

Yandsen…

Siew-Wai…

All pixs by Magnus Caleb

Joe & Bullet will be performing for the opening night of I-Lann’s exhibition of new works titled BOOGEYMAN at The Blck Box, MAP, Solaris Dutamas.

The Abang Guard will be joined on-stage by old friends Siew Wai Kok (vocal gymnast!) & Yandsen (alto-sax massacre!).

One of the few recordings we made during rehearsals on June 19th 2010.

Bullet – Drums, Joe Kidd – Bass

Song: The Revelation of Dotted Dimension in the Course of Inappropriate Contact Between Members of the Opposite Sex

The Abang Guard (Joe & Bullet) along with our mad-person ZAI KUNING will be jamming at the Sama-Sama Festival in Jonkers Street, Melaka at 9PM!

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RICE ABOVE! #12!
The Flowers of Romance! – A Night of Blood-Letting!

RM20, MONDAY 8.30PM, 29th June 2010
@ No Black Tie, 7 Jalan Mesui (off Jalan Nagasari / off Jalan Raja Chulan)
Behind Istana Hotel, near Changkat Bukit Bintang, Kuala Lumpur
MAP: here

ZAI KUNING
- Singapore’s enfant terrible of sound and vision – from the dark, raw & emotional wail of original Malay Riau blues to jagged acid-rock guitars fed through humongous bass amps layered the anguish of the ages.

onisstudio.blogspot.com

AMINO ACID ORCHESTRA
- a trio of improv/noise-rock and mind-blow soundscapes; way beyond the post-rock!

myspace.com/aminoacidorchestra

THE ABANG GUARD
- a duo with many friends. Deep, reckless bass meets carnivorous drumming. features members o Carburetor Dung

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The night will be divided into four sections:

1. ZAI KUNING solo set
2. AMINO ACID ORCHESTRA with ZAI
3. THE ABANG GUARD with ZAI
4. ZAI + AMINO ACID ORCHESTRA + THE ABANG GUARD

a totally unpredictable improv/noise/acid-rock implosion!

Come!

We wrote a bit of a backing track for this. Went there and played, but the backing track was just too soft to rise above the noise. Anyway, we ended up jamming for about 20 minutes, with probably 3 songs.