MyStarz LG 3 - another Sabahan contestant

Terbaru dari Mia Palencia

Mia Palencia artis jazz dari Sabah telah melancarkan album studio beliau yang kedua bertajuk "Song From My Jiwang Kingdom" pada 13 November (yupp you read it right the Malay word "jiwang" is in that phrase). Sebelum ni beliau juga telah menghasilkan album berjudul "Finding My Way". Cuma yang heran sikit si Mia ni kan, kenapalah album pertama dia ni hanya di ketahui oleh segelintir peminat saja dan tidak digembar-gemburkan oleh media-media mainstream. Pada saya kalau dibandingkan album dia ni dengan album English si Melisa Endot, album dia lagi yang lebih menyerlah. Malangnya tidak disebut-sebut pun masa AIM tahun lepas. Entah apa silap? I mean kalau sudah duduk di KL tu, team dia sepatutnya kenalah buat cara orang KL promo album durang. Pegi jumpa media itu ini...buat video rasmi...tayang di Hitz TV...bla..bla..bla. Sana kan banyak saluran, lainlah kalau dia duduk di Sabah (oops!). Sebab dia ni cukup berbakat besar, vocal wise memang unik...husky, silky-smooth, sultry and soothing...belum ada di pasaran Malaysia...lagu-lagu dia pun tidak kurang menariknya ciptaan sendiri pula tu. Kalau ikutkan, dia ni kira pelopor female singer-songwriter type of artistes in the same league sama si Zee Avi dan Yuna, but I guess it's not too much to say she remains underground unlike the other two artistes.

Having heard all the tracks in her second album, dengan promosi yang betul, I hope dia ni bolehlah timbul dari underground and join Zee Avi and Yuna in the mainstreams. Lagipun dengar khabar one of her songs berjudul 'Call Waiting' (or was it Adam's Theme) sering berkumandang di Lite FM. Saya perhatikan produksi album kali ini pun ala-ala album Zee Avi dan Yuna. Iringan muzik mostly guna akustikal gitar ja (ada jugalah elektrik gitar sikit-sikit) paling ketara tiada bunyi ketukan dram langsung (unlike her first album). Khabarnya mixing kali ini dibuat di U.S (ambik ko!)

Bagi saya semua 12 tracks dalam album ni memang bagus-bagus belaka. But I chose this one, called "Poor Mary" as my favourite sebab lagu inilah satu-satunya yang uptempo dan ada suara latar. Yang lain tu semua slow and mellow ala-ala Nora Jones, so tidak disarankan dengar masa driving!Wakakaka (saya ada pengalaman mencemaskan bah masa dengar lagu-lagu Nora Jones ni time driving...mengantuk..hampir-hampir accident)

So here's "Poor Mary"...hit it Sam!

I think Mia kena tambah suara latar ala-ala gospel dalam beberapa lagi lagu dia terutama lagu yang berjudul "How I Try".

Anyways there are two Malay songs, "Percaya" and "Biru". "Percaya" sounds very mainstream ala-ala Yuna dan Zee Avi. But I chose "Biru" dalam irama Blues to be featured here.

Check it out!

Still on Mia, a couple of months back adalah bapa kepada seorang kawan ni tanya samada si Mia ni ada kaitan sama Monika Ongkosing, he asked "anak si Monika kaitu?". Mo ketawa saya dengar...satu tanggapan yang tidak pernah terlintas langsung di kepala saya. I should have answered a straight 'No'

but then on second thought...

Vs

Datang gila-gila saya...saya replied "Ya...anak beranak durang tu!" wakaka..punya jahat..dasar pembuyuk!

But don't get it wrong, the reason he asked is because dia bilang suara durang sama-sama power!

Masih ada lanun

Saya ingatkan di zaman internet, era men-download sekarang ni lanun cetak rompak sudah berkubur rupa-rupanya masih aktif lagi. Kalau betullah macam yang dilaporkan di bawah ni...memang sedihlah. Setau saya ada juga tu kedai jual kaset di sana Center Point yang bagi servis salin lagu dari album (CD) asal ke CD. Dia caj RM 10 ja. So kamurang yang ada menghasilkan album-album ni rajin-rajinlah berjalan pegi buat tinjauan.

Sayang Kinabalu the exotic version

...dan penyanyinya ialah tidak lain dan tidak bukan..jeng..jeng..jeng TAJON!..wakakak..actually the singer is Emmanuel Ombilod

This is what is written on his MySpace

Electro fusion rocker Emmanuel Ombilod, born on Sep,9, 1986. Originally from the eastcost of Malaysia, Borneo. His love for music began from a very young age. He's an audio engineer/music producer. Started his demo somewhere last year and now its done. Currently settled in Bangkok.

He didn't mention his exact hometown (Sandakan kali kan..bangsa Tagalog). I guess singing is not his real specialty, tapi boleh-bolehlah juga. Perhaps to some people, his version is a little bit annoying, but I truly love it...the acoustical arrangement, the fusion with the gong, flute and other traditional elements is simply wonderful. The audio mixing and sound quality...jangan cakaplah kan...standard habis, audio engineer lah katakan dia ni.

Ko baliiiik lah bah sini Sabah...Ombilod OOii! Kami sangat-sangat

perlukan khidmat sound engineer ko tu..huwaaa!"

Syg Kinabalu yet another interesting version

Kring...kring...

Hello! Ya..dbos here..your friendly DJ! How may I help you?
Caller: Hi DJ..my name is Jane calling from Africa..but I'm a Sabahan tau..don't play play
DJ: Oh Hi Jane...you must be the one with 'tajon'..how long have you been in africa?
Caller: U rite that's me..hehe! I've been here like 8, 9 years.
DJ: Wow that's long...you must be very black now.
Caller: You bet...and I miss Sabah a lot bah DJ...I miss the sawah padi...the islands...the beaches...the tuhau...the sosopon...the volcano
DJ: Where got volcano here...r u sure you're from Sabah?
Caller: No volcano ah? The mountain one not volcano ah?
DJ: The Mt. Kinabalu u mean..if volcano we all already die lah
Caller: Like dat ah?...sudah tukar lah?...anyway I like the song about the mountain bah DJ..what's it called already ah?
DJ: My Darling Kinabalu
Caller: Aaa...errm..is it?...can u please play it for me now?
DJ: Over the phone?
Caller: Yes I'm willing to hold on
DJ: Hang on a second...lemme search for the CD first...err..where the hell is it...u know lah these friends borrow borrow and never return one...u want the original version or the acapella one?
Caller: Got acapella one ah?
DJ: Got...but where is it...searching....searching
Caller: Hurry up lah DJ...i'm calling from Africa you know...it's like RM100 per minute
DJ: Aiyaa sorry lah Jane I've been looking everywhere for it even under my arm pit but no luck lah
Caller: So how? Die lah like dat!
DJ: I sing for u lah..
Caller: You can sing ah?
DJ: For u I can lah...u don know anything about..pitching ke laut...flat..apartment..sharp note...out of tune..right?
Caller: I swear I don know those animals!
DJ: OK..good!...put the phone as close as possible to your ear...ready! here we go!



DJ: Soo...?
Caller: Why so different one ah?
DJ: That's the one lah...aiyoo...u in africa like what? 9 years?..of course u don't remember correctly lah...
Caller: But I remember whenever it's played I'm sure move to the beat of the sumazau bah DJ..but this one so sentimental one...I can't even dance.
DJ: Maybe u have even forgotten the sumazau steps?
Caller: Oh ok...I guess ur right..anyway thanks for your time..
DJ: Anytime!...remember, "dbos is the name, entertaining people is the game"...
caller: ENTERTAINING KEPALA HOTAK KO! PEMBUYUK..PENIPU...U THINK I'M REALLY IN AFRICA KAH...KO NAMPAK TU PULAU GAYA...SANALAH AKU..AND MY NAME IS NOT JANE..IT'S JANTAN!

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