KLUE Music Review - August 2006

Wooohooo! KLUE magazine had reviewed our GruvAvénue CD in this August issue. If you're wondering what do they think of our music, buy a copy or read at the indian magazine stores, book stores, or anywhere you can find them!

Care for our environment?

As you can see, i'm actually writing about things which already had happened. Better be late than never! At least i'm a mortal, still trying my best. Here's what it's all about:

From 19th August til 16th Sept 2006, i'm putting the GruvAvenue CD on sale in the Arts & Earth Festival. The exhibition which is filling to the brim with contemporary fine art pieces, booths, screenings, talks and environmental awareness projects for people from all ages is now happening in the KL Performing Arts Centre (KLPac) daily from 11 AM to 7 PM.

GruvAvenue CD is selling at RM 25.90 per piece in conjuction with all these activities. I had managed to pull together stickers with the A&E logo, cut it one by one with a scissor, and sent the first stock to the GEC office all in 2 hours. Swee Lin reminded me that those stickers are unique since it's all hand-cut and not identical in shapes. Soooo kind of you, dear. And what's more?

Besides supporting our local musicians and composers, you're actually contributing to preserve our nature, our environment which we live in, breath and drink from. This year's theme is water. Hence Proceeds from this CD sales will be donated to the RIVER CARE FUND. Is this another hoity-toity or artsee-fartsee thingy from those who paints and plays music cos they might have nothing better to do?

If this is your first impression, then you need to come to the fest and learn a thing or two about this very planet that you're living on. Buying expensive water filter system is not the only way in a long run. We need to go to the core of the problem. Our natural resource of our drinking water - our rivers! These rivers are polluted from developments and mis-handling from the public, us! That's why we need to raise the public awareness of the little-thing-you-do that makes a-big-difference. And all these efforts and projects need fund to operate. This is where everyone, i mean EVERY one should participate.

Hence i'm putting the Black Machine (since it funds the CD production) and my old self to do whatever we can to contribute to our community and environment. Take good care of yourself. Take good care of your environment. It'll take care of you for many years to come. I can't do this alone, but together we could make the world a better place for living.

Support Local Artist. Purchase GruvAvenue CD @ Arts & Earth Fest in KLPac til 16th Sept. Proceeds will be donated to River Care Fund. Thank you very very Much.

... Jazz Selekta Launch

we're invited to the Jazz Selekta Launch in Bangkok Jazz couple tuesday ago which was happened to be on the 15th August, same date as the first day of fourplay concert in MPO! Plenty of local veteran performers like Leonard Tan, Fairuz Hussein and musicians include Eddy, Syam, Jin, Ramlan, Az, Shelly performed live to the listeners on that night. My favourite of the evening was an outstanding piano stunt by Dato Mok playing two tunes, Beautiful Love & All the Things You Are. Not because he's slightly older, or holding a very important position in RTM (Malaysia's national tv station), but this cat really plays so well that he could put any pianist (with conscience!) in town to shame. i spent most of the time cheering as the live broadcast started at 9 PM. Managed to take some shots with Jezza, Maya and couples of friends.

A Big Thank You to ...

everyone who made this performance a sucess.

First, thanks to junior from alldatjazz.com a.k.a. Brian Kwan for the lovely pictures.

Thank you to Vincent, Shazzy, Justin, Charles and Vanessa for all the hardwork, amazing talents and energetic show(wo)manship.

Loads of gratitude to the organiser, Sunrise Berhad for believing in us.

Fantastic stage monitoring and sound from Gerald and Jim.

Many thanks to Mel from NST, Jezza & Maya from Jazz Selekta, and all press & media for the publicity and coverage.

Many thanks to the wonderful audience, blog peers, Swee Lin and you guys ;-)

And the list goes on and on...

*Bow*

GruvAvenue @ Sunrise Jazz Fest 2006

GruvAvenue @ Alexis Live Report

Here's a picture taken during the show.

We have a very special gentleman checking out our gig at Alexis yesterday.

Here's few things which we must say "Thank you" to him:-

1. Thank you for buying our CD.

2. Thank you for coming to our live gigs.

3. Thank you for introducing our gigs to your friends.

4. Thank you for staying tune to THIS blog and many more.

For those of you all out there, we hope you'll enjoy our music, and chill out at our gigs and stay in touch. Want some signatures on our CD? see you at our gigs! We love to know you all! So don't be shy! Write us! Come & Say "Hi"!

For everyone who have the slightest idea of who or what we are, you're always welcome to check it out!

GruvAvénue @ Alexis Ampang

yes, the group will be playing in Alexis after their performance in the recent Sunrise Jazz & Rhythm Fest on 29th July. If you happened to miss that one, here's the chance to catch them!

11th & 12th August 2006.

10:30 PM onwards.

Free Admission.

Car Park closes at 2 PM.

As usual we have the man - Vincent and his loves, the bass and some of his new compositions. Shazzy injecting some cool raps, with his hip (hop?) & horny (tenor!) lines. Charles tapping out pulsating drumbeats. New additions are :- Leonard on keys & ivories, and the sensational vocalist-Vanessa, who writes fantastic lyrics at rocket speed. Julian, old mate from "the Black Machine" days will be sitting-in on this saturday. Do check out the Alexis in Great Eastern Mall, Ampang and make reservations. The best is yet to come as the night falls...

If you need infos on directions and stuff, click ME.