Music in the forest;peace& love
This is a blog from waaaay back but its never too late to tell a decent story eih?
So come 8-11th July, I had the chance to attend the Rainforest World Music Festival in the rainforests of Sarawak. Picture this; 4 days of world music at the foot of a mountain and jungle with the sea on the other side of the landscape and if magical doesnt come to mind, you need help!
The stage was aptly set at the foot of the mountain surrounded by lushious green jungle....
World music takes some getting used to especially if most of what your used to is the bling bling matha what sounds and all other conventional types of rhymes and lyrics. It was a case of in your face drums, jingles, tamborines, ukaleles, lyrics from lands afar, artists telling stories of the lands they come from using authentic instruments e.t.c.
In the line up was Mongolia, Belize, Ivory Coast, Italy, Poland, Colombia to mention but a few. The atmosphere was one of peace and love, the dress code appeared to feature lots of happy pants(fisherman trousers), easy shirts, slippers, lots of easy going folks and lots of KLites who dropped their city acts, ties and power suits for a weekend of down to earth chill out.
The atmosphere was superb with the Ivory coast crew working the crowd into a frenzy with their thunderous african drums that speak volumes of our beautifuk continent at the slighest touch (Ok, so im afrocentric:) This picture should speak of the frenzy.....
Mad props to a Polish group (Shanon) who fused soft rock, jazz and celtic sounds to have all our hands in the air, heads bobbing and feet stomping.
The Italian group and their sing along tune ...Utsatsa utsatsa get 7 marks for their ability to teach us Italian in under 2 minutes. If there is a tune we still remember its the Utsatsa.
The Mongolian crew caught our attention with the high pitched sounds. I imagined a remix with any of the bollywood tunes and I see in an instant an Asian chart buster..shigishigi in da ho...(ok thats what we thought we heard them say)
Tuku Kame from Sarawak and some beautiful string work from an instrument that looks like some manner of huge mandolin; Petrona Martinez from Colombia @66years is still a very jiving song bird and Id have to say I was glad to learn a thing or 2 about the afro origins of Colombian culture.muy bien!
Plus it doesnt hurt when youre shacking up at the Holiday Inn,
and enjoying this sort of sunsets, 
amdist this kind of a set up.
And lets not forget the after parties at the beach with the drum circles and the bonfires.
Skin on wood...NICE! Im talking drums man, Mother Earth's contribution to music!
BIG UP! to the organisers and if you can, make it to next years fete.
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isn't it simply magic??! ahhhh can't believe I went there a whole year ago....we should go there together sometime :)
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Sounds like it was a ball,especially the drums. And a Kenyan dress down?hmmm Akalas,costo kikoys or alternatively that elusive Kenyan dress.Nice photos.
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How about doing a KL version of the forest festival when we are up there? You do the drum, Nacho sings, I scream :-)
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