Mandatory Ramadhan post (2012 ver)

This time, a haiku:

From dawn until dusk
Restraint your inner demon

'tis be Ramadhan!

So yea, happy fasting... and less the fussing.

I'm out of idea for any content

Northern Music Festival 2012

Last weekend, after making a short trip down south to Kuala Lumpur, I decided to stop at Penang to check out the Northern Music Festival 2012 after being invited over by my bro and a couple of his friends. 

The name might be slightly misleading to the uninitiated. The festival has been described as 'Northern Music Festival 2012 is the next platform for local independent bands to showcase their music and talents. Featuring over 40 bands in two days, audiences will get to enjoy a mix of music from local indie bands from all over Malaysia'.  

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回路-kairo- - Way of wonderful suicide

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I didn't know the existence of this album until I found it being mentioned in the passing. Bloody hard to find it, too.

Way of wonderful suicide (gosh, what a title) is 回路-kairo-'s second original album, after 夜明けのセカイと思考回路 (their other 5 albums are Touhou arrangements). This album was released during M3-29, which would somehow explain its obscurity - never mind the fact that this circle don't get much mentioning most of the time...

If you are expecting some screams ala Foreground Eclipse here, then look elsewhere. The music is more post-rock and ambient than the stuff you'd hear from their Touhou arrangement. 556t sure have went slower with her voice in this album - to be honest I kind of prefer her vocal in previous works, as her voice here come across to me as somewhat flat in some of the tracks.

I have no complaint with the music though. There's more piano this time around compared to their previous works, and they even included violin in one of the track. This album reminds me of their last original work, and alone, but never alone. If you enjoy their slower and ambiance sound, then you'll love this one.


Favourite tracks: Love song, Answer, 風の香り, Way of wonderful suicide

Electric Red - Celestial Wizardry ~ Magical Astronomy

This is some awesome shit man. 24 minutes of prog metal from Electric Red, fk yeah!

To be honest I would usually equate these guys with distorted, heavy and somewhat progressive metal sound, but this is a  surprisingly good exception.

Progressive metal, do you dig it?!

Drifting apart (like a plate tectonic) is 2 years old! And Faults is an old forgetful bum!

Title says it all. And I was late for it by... over 2 weeks. Whoops.

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