Define Malaysia?
To me its impossible!
I will tell you why...
Its a southeastern country with substantial influences from the Chinese, Indian, Persian, Arabic and European culture where Islam is the official religion and yet celebrates some Hindu Festivals in a bigger scale then in India, and has most of its buildings missing the 4th floor and called 3A instead because the chinese believe number 4 brings bad luck!!!
When you zoom into families and individuals you will see Malay families with kids insisting on thosai and chutneys for breakfast and Indian families packing 10 roti canais and nasi lemaks for the whole family!
Every kitchen in Malaysian homes will have a mix of ingredients and pots and pans from various cultures...
We can see Hindus putting up Christmas trees at home and Christians doing the rangoli on Deepavali!!!
You can stand next to stranger who looks originally Chinese until you hear them speak fluently in TAMIL!!!
We have chinese kids learning Indian classical dance and Indian kids learning ballet.
No matter what language we speak we are sure to add "LAH" "MEH" "AH" to it!
SO...who ARE we???
WORDS will NEVER get you there!
ONLY MUSIC can do that! So,
Come watch SwarAsia Malaysia! and let the music define who we are! With all the mixes and matches of culture...beautifully composed and arranged! What you hear will not be the Sitar or Cello or guitar or tabla or cajoun...what you hear will be us! Because it has been arranged by a purely Malaysian musician who can feel from his soul all the flavours that makes us uniquely who we are!
Anything beautiful is beyond definition and so is
"SwarAsia Malaysia"
a Fusion Band brought together by our very own Sitar Maestro Samuel Dass with 6 other talented musicians!
A two hour music repertoire!
with
Sitar: Samuel Dass
Tabla: Prakash Kandasamy
Cello: Mariamlisa Zainal Abidin
Bass: Eliezer Enan
Guitar: Marco Antonio Alonso
Cajoun: Selvendrrah Krishnan
Percussion:Dhivager Murahari
What better way to start
TWENTY SEVENTEEN!
Heres a glimpse of the making, if you are not convinced :)
Call 0166820919/03-74969700 and reserve your seats to an unforgettable musical experience!
See you at Temple of Fine Arts, Kuala Lumpur this
JANUARY THE SIXTH
8.15PM
Brought to you by
SWARA COMMUNITY ARTS CENTER
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