Sounds like Kraftwerk meets Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan.

10 MP3 Songs in this album (27:08) !
Related styles: Avant Garde: Experimental, World: Asian- Southeast, Mood: Dreamy

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Details:
â¨â¨FOUNDER:â¨Kamal Sabran - Electroacoustic
â¨Zulkifli Ramli - Gambus/Oudâ¨â¨

The Collective:
â¨haneem: guitar, ambient (artist, curator)â¨
bentara: guitar, soundscape (ex- langsuyr/tro-njo-i)â¨
elly: bass (ex the hans)â¨
Munis Musa: multi-instrumentalist (Uh Uh!)â¨
andri: guitar, noise (goodbye 20th century)
â¨aizat: guitar (keladak)â¨
azmil mokhtar: drum , percussion (the Hans)â¨
Syahril Fadly: sampler (moloko)
â¨Fasyali: Rebab
â¨mamel: drum (akta angkasa)
â¨fadly Sabran: noise (Sosound)â¨
putera oud: gambus (Oud-Kestra)â¨
pyan: electronic manipulation (Shizuka ben aman)
â¨bob: gendang (mentol 100 watt)â¨
eric hausmann: guitar efx etc (Spilling Audio)
â¨izuan ismil: bass (Mathari)â¨
nexus polaris: electronic drums
â¨Meta Hinggaq: noise

â¨â¨Poetâ¨:
A Samad Saidâ¨
Siti Zainonâ¨
Amirul Fakir
â¨Rahmat Haronâ¨
Yusuf Martin
â¨Ole Lillelund
â¨Amir Zainorin

â¨â¨Collaborators:â¨
Adam James davis (UK)
â¨Alvari Lume (Finland)â¨
Antonio Mainenti (Italy)
â¨Arcano 18 (Ecuador)â¨
Cathy Fern Lewis (Canada)
â¨Derek Crofut (US)
â¨Goh Lee Kwang (Malaysia)
â¨Gunhild Seim (Norway)â¨
Jim Leftwich (US)
â¨Lily Taylor (US)â¨
Lorenzo Pancini (Italy)â¨
Matt Middleton Crude (New Zealand)â¨
Masoud Takavar (Iran)â¨
Markus Wenninger (German)
â¨Zenmetalshirt (Switzerland)â¨
Eric Hausmann (US)â¨
Pandu Hidayat (indonesia)â¨
Alan Herrick (US)â¨
Man Troj (singapore)â¨
Mojdeh (chicago)â¨
Harold Seah ID (Singapore)
â¨Marlina Shadun Hausmann (US)â¨
Az Stellarium (singapore)â¨
Bryce Eiman (USA)â¨
Veroníque Jacques (Canada)â¨
Gembi (jakarta)â¨
Hasnul Saidon (MGTF)â¨â¨

â¨â¨Producer: Kamal Sabranâ¨
Executive Producer: Teratak Nuromar
â¨All tracks written by Kamal Sabran 2005-2009
â¨recorded and mixed by Kamal Sabran at Xperimental Art LAb Ipoh Perak Malaysiaâ¨
Jupiterâs Radio Wave recorded at National Space Station Malaysia
â¨Art Direction & Design by Kamal Sabranâ¨â¨

Made and Printed in MALAYSIA


REVIEW:

The Space Gambus Experiment masterfully straddles the gap between the traditional and the contemporary in modern Malaysian music.â¨â¨Woven into the very fabric of this disc, the music of â¨tradition comes represented by the unique richness of the Malay Gambus (Oud), its symbolism and resonance, while space, its sound and interpretation, literally gives the vibrancy which completes the phenomenon which is known as The Space Gambus Experiment - Zulkifli Ramli (Gambud/Oud)and Kamal Sabran ( electro â acoustic).â¨â¨

The artist and the musician create a sound which is at once innovative and melodically rhythmically Malaysian.â¨â¨

A new music CD, launched December 2009, introduces the mesmerising sounds of The Space Gambus Experiment to an expectant audience. This landmark work is the result of a unique collaboration, not only between the two presenting musicians â Mohd Zulkifli Ramli (Gambud/Oud) and Kamal Sabran (electro â acoustic) but also between the traditional and the contemporary in modern Malaysian music.

â¨â¨For this âexperimentâ Kamal Sabran has engaged the talents of Mohd Zulkifli Ramli, to bring the uniquely symbolic music of the Malay gambus (a lute like instrument), into play, perhaps with the intention of playing point, counterpoint to Kamalâs adventurous sound making.â¨â¨

An observant reader will have noticed the word â Space in the title of this CD, as in The Space Gambus Experiment, and maybe scratched an itchy follicle or two on its significance. To put your inquisitive minds at rest, I am not referring to some post-hippy, pseudo-psychedelia, but in this case â real Space, as in âone small step for man, one giant leap for mankindâ, the National Space Agency and the planet Jupiter.

â¨â¨Among Kamalâs many projects as an artist and musician, and following his partiality to meld science with art, Kamal had worked as an âartist in residenceâ at the Malaysian National Space Agency, between 2005 and 2006.â¨â¨

There he developed âSonic Cosmic Music from Outer Spaceâ, which was later performed at the planetarium. It was at the National Space Agency that Kamal began experimenting with radio waves, received through the radio telescope, from the planet Jupiter as it was orbiting over Malaysian skies. Some of that celestial material, along with the more traditional gambus music, graces this present album.â¨â¨

With a world rapidly churning out the latest talking blues gangsta rapper, wannabe TV starlet/singer or bootilicious boy/babe dressed hot to kill, it has become a case of never mind that he/she cannot actually sing but look at that boy/girl go.

â¨â¨It therefore comes as a great relief that artist/designer/musician/academician Kamal Sabran quests on the fringes of ânoiseâ and âmelodyâ to bring us this unexpected gem of a CD â The Space Gambus Experiment. Co-incidentally, Kamal, rapidly becoming a Malaysian renaissance man, has also designed the layout and cover of this visually, as well as musically, exciting CD.â¨â¨â¨

Those of you who have been intently following the contemporary arts scene, or who have been nose-diving into arts listings or even shrewd enough to access on-line Malaysian arts reviewers, recently, will have seen Kamal as part of 15 Malaysia.â¨â¨

15 Malaysia was a project consisting of a series of 15 short films, concerning the realities, and some fantasies, of life in Malaysia. Kamalâs entry â LUMPUR (mud), is about, strangely enough, mud, or rather what it comprises of. This short film explores peopleâs association with land, ownership, water and earth, leaving the audience pondering these subjects.

â¨â¨âLumpurâ saw Kamal as film director, editor, musician and composer, along with the legendary Pete Teo as overall producer.â¨Music from âLUMPURâ - Ruang Kosong Remix, containing sounds taken from soil and water, add an âorganicâ element to the soundtrack, and appears on the CD The Space Gambus Experiment.â¨Out of the canon of Kamal Sabranâs musical enterprises, this CD offers what may be his most accessible compositions, with a more direct focus on instrumental melodies, intertwined with electronic abstract resonance. Certainly, with this innovative CD, Kamal has moved, ever so slightly, away from the more distinctly avant-garde Terry Riley, or, perhaps Max Neuhaus inspired sound experiments he is known for - towards a more rounded sound imagery, infinitely more palatable for the general, lay public, as well as proving stimulating for the discerning music lover.

â¨â¨â¨-Yusuf Martinâ¨writer,poet and art critic born in England and live in Malaysia



SGE is the best epitome of how our society and environment have become so dense and noisy, that we can't hear any words of wisdom anymore.
-Hasnul jamal Saidon
Artist, writer, director



Kamal always have interested with cosmic idea and Einsten relativity. For him science and art is one thing while sex and pornography is another thing. a silence is not a silence. Theres always music in between. And in this case, it could comes from outer space. And when a signal is blend with music, heres what you got.â¨

Space gambus Experiment brought another new dimension to its kind of music.â¨

So its not too much if to say that this music collaboration he produce is like science meets traditional. Or science meets the ..gambus. As I said, this is no ordinary music. So when u listen to this music and u caught a glimpse of an alien voice trying to contact us, thatâs not accident. it could happening. And this is not science fiction, the music is real. â¨Of course Kamal is no Jean Michel Jarre or even say Vangelis. But his one of few local artist that are not afraid to experiment with things and hes eager for your opinion. Kamal is like a tiger in a cage waiting to leap onto you. Or in this case..hes like the orbit sound from space that waiting to be heard.

â¨Listen it with open heart. feels the ambience surrounding u. feels the enigma of unending space. A space that is lighter than a light and space that revolve around us. The Quantum leap of metaphysical that opens the mystery of human kind...."
-Saat Omar
Artist, Blogger



"Space Gambus is not your typical band. I donât think they wanted to be called a band. Founded by Kamal Sabran and Zulkifli Ramli, Space Gambus Experiment is a collective collaborations. Depending on the event they are playing, Space Gambusâ performances will incorporate musicians, poets, visual artist and other creative artists of other field.â¨â¨

Even before they start I was in awe just looking at their equipment. The crowd wasnât sure what to expect at first, but then I notice that everyone starts to get closer and closer as they start playing. Space Gambus Experiment is not something you could mosh to, still they manage engage the crowds."
-jiboneus.com music blog



I really dig what Space Gambus Experiment has been doing. Itâs exciting and mysterious. Theyâre a large group of unpredictable improvisators, yet they play with an amazing amount of restraint. I donât think itâs easy to pull off this kind of performance, especially when a group also incorporates musical hooks, melodies with beats, and traditional roots. Here in Portland, people would be amazed by what they do. They would instantly become local rock stars.
-ERIC HAUSMANN
Artist/musician


The Space Gambus Experiment is medicine for my musical soul being tortured by the commercial music most stations broadcast 24/7. It is a trip through an open space, populated by friendly peaceful beings, it's cool air breezing through my mind...it makes me feel a transcendental network bent around the globe.
-Zenmetalshirt
Musician


A gathered collective of artists as musical space agency, helping to realise Kamal sabran and zulkifli Ramli syntheses and intersections. Why go into space? Because there is new music up there! Why bring it to us? Because there are new rhythms and atmospheres to organise and test, to play along to and combine with the sounds of the universes within our own brains as well...that is, if there is any distinction at all. Music, not noise? Noise, not music? Anti-this, anti-that!? Music -and- noise! That is more like it. Me -and- you...collaboration, not competition. Does a little universe expand and contract to every one vibration of the gambus' strings? As the SGE advances further into space, let it then go inward. Let us then strum and chime to the sonifications, to the musics of our own brainwave activity. The Innerspace Gambus Experiment...
-Adam James Davis
Musician


New media artist Kamal Sabran shares the secret of recording sounds from outerspace.

â¨â¨KAMAL Sabran is an artist, filmmaker, musician â these are just a few of the many roles he plays. He recently released an album which features sounds that are, literally, from out of this world. To be more precise, it is the sound of the planet Jupiter.â¨â¨

The project, called Space Gambus Experiment (SGE), is an amalgamation of sampled sounds, delicately woven with beats and other instrumentations, including the stringed gambus (lute), over the drone of Jupiter.â¨â¨

And no folks, this is not a tale from The Twilight Zone.â¨Back in 2005, Kamal, now 32, was the artist-in-residence with the National Space Agency and he got to be the artist-in-residence because of his proposal: to record sounds of Jupiter as an experimental music project.â¨â¨

As an artist, Kamal hovers slightly outside the norm of contemporary fine arts by practising sound art. Sound art is also considered the new direction in fine arts.â¨This particular art form, compared to the more visually-related forms of painting, drawing, sculpting and installation, focuses more on sound, listening and hearing.â¨The nature of sound art, though, is ever evolving and takes various hybrid forms through film, video, performance arts, experimental theatre, etc.â¨â¨

As a sound artist, Kamalâs plan was ambitious. He wanted to record sounds that did not originate from Earth. So the only place where they would point a microphone into space, so to speak, was an observatory. Which was why Kamal knocked on the doors of the National Space Agency.â¨â¨

âYou remember the time we sent our first Malaysian astronaut into space? That was the time I was the artist-in-residence with the National Space Agency.â¨âThis was my personal project actually because I was very interested in natural sounds but I didnât want ânormalâ sounds. I wanted something from outer space. A space sound, you know.â said Kamal in a recent interview.â¨â¨

Hence, a radio telescope was used to record the electromagnetic radiation emanating from the planet Jupiter as it orbited over Malaysian skies.â¨

âYou canât really hear anything of the electromagnetic waves because the frequency is too high to be detected by the human ear. So I had to filter it down to listenable soundwaves and from there, turn the ânoiseâ into a performance piece,â said Kamal, who graduated in Graphic Design from Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM).â¨â¨

That performance piece, at the time, was called Sonic Cosmic Music From Outer Space and Kamal had invited friends who were visual artists and poets to contribute to the project. That was in 2006 and Kamal had ended his tenure as artist-in-residence with the National Space Agency but the sound artist was not completely satisfied with the project.âI had completed all the compositions back then but I felt that something was missing ... it didnât feel complete,â said Kamal, who is now based in Ipoh.â¨â¨

A few years went by and Kamalâs sonic space project was put in the backburner while he pursued other projects, including directing the short film, Lumpur, in 2009, which was one of the shorts for the 15Malaysia project.â¨Kamal had previously directed three music videos for folk artiste Pete Teo, who later became the producer of 15Malaysia and gave Kamal a call about directing a short film.

â¨â¨âYou know, I donât even have a video camera and Pete wanted high-resolution quality so I asked my friends, a collective of photographers known as Jangguttouch, whether any of their cameras could record video and they handed me a Canon 5D Mark II, with which I shot Lumpur.ââ¨â¨

Kamal used the short film project 15Malaysia as a platform to combine different art forms like sound art and performance art into it.â¨âI donât consider myself a filmmaker or a music video director even though I use the same elements â images and sound â as film.â¨âIâm still very much an artist who is trying to push the boundaries of fine arts outside its traditional confines.ââ¨â¨

As social networking on the Internet intensified worldwide, Kamal wasted no time in contacting like-minded people â sound artists and experimental musicians â and passed them samples of his space project to work on.

â¨â¨As such, SGE comprises collaborators from all over the world â North America, South America, Europe and the Middle East â but his most significant collaborator was Zulkifli Ramli, a local musician.â¨â¨

âI âmetâ Zul on Facebook. I didnât know who he was then but I added him and we started chatting and I learned that he played gambus for Dewangga Sakti. So, I told him about my space project and e-mailed him a sample.â¨â

Zul took that sample and added gambus sounds to it and returned it to me. When I heard it, I thought: âThatâs it. That was the missing piece (the gambus)â. Now the project feels complete.ââ¨â¨

Kamal invited Zul over to his âpondokâ or hut (thatâs what Kamal calls his workspace and recording studio in his home in Ipoh) and recorded the gambus over seven tracks.

â¨âIt was all done in one take. I have 10 tracks on the album and seven of them I recorded with Zul and the other three with other collaborators whom Iâve never met. Iâve only spoken to them on-line,â said Kamal.

â¨â¨It is a strange sensation listening to an album which has a sample of the sonic space between Earth and Jupiter and grounding it is the gambus, along with various loops, beats and other musical samples.â¨It is also rare for a piece of music whose hidden qualities transcend (outer) space and time. And all it took was imagination and perseverance.

-THE STAR (Malaysia news paper)