Formed : 1994
Members:
Minah Angong (vocals), Antares (flutes, nging-ngong & percussion), Rafique Rashid (guitar & sequencer), David Yee (fretless bass), Stanley Nickam, John Hagedorn, Paul Lau (percussion)
Label: Magick River
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great music, great band..nice to know you guys. Keep rockin in the free world. nice to know you guys. maybe someday we will one stage and sing together haha..respect -CUPUMANIK (we are online at yahoo messanger, add us at : cupumanikband@yahoo.com)
Well bro thats wat music is all about..people come and go BUT the soul still remains...
Tq..the pgl musical is very much a collaboration..as always...
Hey lets do something man....
Can you name a few musicians who have been part of the Akar Umbi family?
At the very beginning it was just Antares, Rafique and Mak Minah. When we were asked to play at Malam Karyawan 1994 we roped in Cheong on lead guitar; Bullet Hasbullah on drums; Philip Boyle, Jr on keyboards; Stanley Nickam on percussion; Sunetra Fernando, Nai Anak Lahai, and Indah Merkol on bamboo (buloh limbong). The Akar Umbi line-up at RWMF 1999 was Antares on flutes, serunai & percussion, Cheong on guitar, John Hagedorn on percussion... and we were expecting Cynthia Alexander (the beautiful and talented sister of Joey Ayala) to join us on bass but she was given a hard time by the Malaysian Embassy in Manila and cancelled out. Luckily some of the boys from Tuku Kame helped us out at the last minute - Zaaba Yusuf on bass, Johari Morshidi and Ainal on percussion. On the studio version of 'Hutan Manao' and 'Kuda Lari' jazz bassist David Yee contributed some scintillating fretless grooves. Salim Dastan laid down the gamelan samples and synth effects on 'Kuda Lari' and the guitar tracks were a blend of Cheong and Mike Bloementhal.
Bio
AKAR UMBI
A MUSICAL FUSION OF ANCIENT AND MODERN WORLDS
It started in 1992 whenAntares moved to the Pertak Forest Reserve and Rafique Rashid set up his studio in Kuala Kubu Baru. Through this connection other musicians, writers and filmmakers began to get to know the indigenous Temuan community of Kampong Pertak. They realized that the Temuan’s rich oral traditions were in danger of becoming lost in the new money culture. They resolved to document as much of this valuable heritage as possible.The first point of reference was through music. Taking ceremonial singer Minah Angong’s songs as the starting point, they experimented and explored, adding contemporary instrumentation to augment the traditional Orang Asli bamboo percussion.
Antares was commissioned in 1993 by Melbourne-based dancer-choreographer Chandrabhanu to produce 30 minutes of music for a freestyle dance piece called Birthplace Reclaimed. Minah’s song Burung Meniyun was incorporated into the piece as a finale and she was invited to perform it live. The effect was mesmerizing, to say the least. The very next year Akar Umbi performed for a 42,000-strong audience at a gigantic benefit concert for Bosnia staged at the Shah Alam Stadium, sharing the limelight with the biggest names in the music business, including M. Nasir, Sharifah Aini, Amy & Search, Sahara Yaakob, and Jamal Abdillah. The concert was telecast live to a nationwide audience on RTM2.
Akar Umbi was offered a guest slot at the first Rainforest World Music Festival in Sarawak and wowed the crowd. The following year, Akar Umbi was given its own billing at the festival (which celebrates its 10th phenomenal year in July 2007). Sadly, three weeks after the Sarawak gig, Minah Angong fell ill and unexpectedly passed away on 21 September 1999.
Antares resolved that Minah Angong’s musical legacy be preserved for posterity, and on 9 August 2002, Akar Umbi’s first CD, Songs of the Dragon, was released by Magick River in conjunction with the U.N.’s "International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples." The album is temporarily out of stock, but plans are afoot to issue a new batch, as well as make the music downloadable.
As a band, AKAR UMBI is unique because it not only showcases the Temuan’s sacred songs, but the project has also involved Malaysians from all ethnic backgrounds (Orang Asli, Malay, Chinese, Indian, Eurasian and Caucasian). The music breaks through barriers and Minah Angong has become a cultural ambassador for her people. The favorable response to the music has shown the Orang Asli that other people do value their traditions. Most gratifying to note, the younger generation of Temuans have begun to learn some of Mak Minah’s healing songs from listening to the Akar Umbi CD.
