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What happens when you get a good mix of folk, blues, psychedelia and a spunk of attitude? You get one of KL’s best Alt-rock outfits Billie Blue & The Nowhere Men; who bring you a vintage sound within a rock-n-roll-less era!
There’s a lot to be said about folk music that doesn’t try to be anything more than a guitar and a singer with a heartful of words to sing. But folk is a large genre – a constantly evolving one – where people seek to add more weight to their words by adding more layers to instrumentation; more gravity to its emotions. We explore Brendan’s evolution through that spectrum, from the first time he performed to his upcoming EP, Three.
Bayangan is Fikri Fadzil’s stage name for his neo-folk project. His début album Bersendirian Berhad is the culmination of several months of seclusion in his home-cum-office, containing songs that are minimal, but loaded with messages of nostalgia, addiction, darkness and more. We had a deep conversation with him about a large variety of things, and as a man who has spent years being one of the most respected curators of Southeast Asian music with The Wknd Sessions, it’s a treasure trove of influence, stories and inspiration.
The conversation happened in the Wknd office’s backyard, with a lone tree in [...]
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