One Day Holiday - Malaysia's Own Space Act
They are far-reaching, scatterbrained, anal, non-conforming, and they sounded normal by being highly abnormal at all times; they don't make one dot connect with the other - nobody could ever find two connectible dots in their materials, and they won't hide that fact because they could go from calm to furious to spaced out to jittery all within the acceptable expanse of a post rock material; they are frustratingly alienating - you will never find a voice within their song that speaks to you, that connects with you, which as a result, you can't connect to it either. Yes, the lengthy description that precedes this sentence is the description that we'll bestow on one Akta Angkasa (direct translation to English is "Space Act"), one of the most hard to pin down act to ever emerge from the underground.
When we first saw them performing live at some small and dank club on the fringe of the P Ramlee street, they were chaotic. The flashing spotlight, flickering from behind the band and onto the eyes of the audience, we seriously thought that they hated their audience very much they wanted all of us to go blind. And the single most annoying high pitched shriek fills the entire place as it blasts through their entire 20 minutes (or so) set, leaving all patrons on that day thirsty as the club runs out of glass. It was a horrifying, soul-scarring, ear-raping and yet mind-blowing experience that we somehow loved to look back and thought: "That was awesome". And it was awesome - not Mastodon kind of awesome, but holy-shit-they-are-so-twisted-I-can-feel-Satan-breathing-down-my-neck kind of awesome. But that of course was five years ago. Now, today, coming soon on the 17th of February at the Laundry bar, The Curve, they will be performing live again. Yes, we haven't seen them performing live for that long if it is not already obvious. Two live shows - Monday and Thursday - our ears will definitely be bleeding by Friday.
Thanks to Seni Pekik for the information and some of the materials.
They are far-reaching, scatterbrained, anal, non-conforming, and they sounded normal by being highly abnormal at all times; they don't make one dot connect with the other - nobody could ever find two connectible dots in their materials, and they won't hide that fact because they could go from calm to furious to spaced out to jittery all within the acceptable expanse of a post rock material; they are frustratingly alienating - you will never find a voice within their song that speaks to you, that connects with you, which as a result, you can't connect to it either. Yes, the lengthy description that precedes this sentence is the description that we'll bestow on one Akta Angkasa (direct translation to English is "Space Act"), one of the most hard to pin down act to ever emerge from the underground.
When we first saw them performing live at some small and dank club on the fringe of the P Ramlee street, they were chaotic. The flashing spotlight, flickering from behind the band and onto the eyes of the audience, we seriously thought that they hated their audience very much they wanted all of us to go blind. And the single most annoying high pitched shriek fills the entire place as it blasts through their entire 20 minutes (or so) set, leaving all patrons on that day thirsty as the club runs out of glass. It was a horrifying, soul-scarring, ear-raping and yet mind-blowing experience that we somehow loved to look back and thought: "That was awesome". And it was awesome - not Mastodon kind of awesome, but holy-shit-they-are-so-twisted-I-can-feel-Satan-breathing-down-my-neck kind of awesome. But that of course was five years ago. Now, today, coming soon on the 17th of February at the Laundry bar, The Curve, they will be performing live again. Yes, we haven't seen them performing live for that long if it is not already obvious. Two live shows - Monday and Thursday - our ears will definitely be bleeding by Friday.
Akta Angkasa - Kognitif > from Senipekik on Vimeo.
Thanks to Seni Pekik for the information and some of the materials.
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