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Friday, September 11, 2009
So long ago I was in a band called Airtight Noise. Sigh. Andy where are you? We are going back!
AIRTIGHT NOISE
When Chin Yew and Andy Chow were kids, they dream of being rock stars after seeing their rock hero Kurt Cobain swinging crazily on stage. They weren’t musically talented enough to cover songs of their favorite bands, but not giving up they randomly made up their own songs just to get a taste of being in a band. With only Yew on guitar and Andy on drums, they made a couple of home-recordings and shared it among friends.
A fateful meeting with Yin Pin from Amid The Mimic sowed the seeds for the current sounds of Airtight Noise. A chance trading of musical taste lead Yew and Andy to discovering bands that eventually would shape their musical adventure from there onwards – bands such as Slint, Fugazi, Chavez and Galaxie 500.
After tagging along with Amid The Mimic for some of their jamming sessions and gigs, Chin Yew said to Andy, “I think we can do it too.” Thus, Airtight Noise was born.
And since then, Airtight Noise have always been a random line-up of people with a commitment for least one performance a year, but striving to exist forever. It has been 10 years now. Truly a labour of love rather then just a statement of cool, Airtight Noise plays a brand of music driven by improvisation
I See So Many Butterflies, Vol 1 - Time Out Kuala Lumpur Review
Author: Chin Yew
Time Out rating: 4/5
Self-published; RM69.90
I like Chin Yew’s ‘The Boy Who Loved Clouds’ which was published two years ago. The colourful artwork there has the feel of something that could become an animated cartoon accompanied by ‘Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds’. In it a boy floats around in a surreal world meeting an angel, a devil, plus signs and more. He’s searching for his dream, his passion and love. Now Chin Yew has another comic out at 328 pages. This time about, to put it simplistically, a break-up and the supposed outcome.
To preface his book, the artist-writer uses a quotation attributed to Chuan Tzu, ‘I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.’ And with this pithy epigram, he launches the reader into a terrain where the real and the imagined coexist without clarifying which is which (reminiscent also of a short story by Honore de Balzac about a hanging). As a consequence, time becomes liquid flowing back on itself and sometimes playing the same moment again and again like a bad nightmare that won’t let go.
Yew has adopted a few different styles to draw in this new work. Like many young artists who also work for film production houses, his drawings resemble strongly the storyboards that are created to map out the shoot. But occasionally he introduces the iconic style of Lat. And when rage takes over, the face of the character distorts as in Japanese anime. Sometimes the character is discernable from frame to frame. Other times the frame looks like Rorschach inkblot. Impressionistic.
There’s a violence inherent in this work notwithstanding the occasional emergence of the pretty butterfly. But perhaps aggression is the product of living in the twenty first century. And love too has its dark side. But likely the work will resonate with angst-bent twentysomethings.
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Just finished reading Persepolis. Iranian ladies don't like to wear the scarfs, is the government that likes it.
When Comics Attack nothing is left to chance. Humor, action, sorrow, and nadshots are but a few of the tools in your tool belt to illicit thought. But what happens when comics get political?
Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis was a graphic novel long before it became a movie. We have yet to experience either media. Persepolis is about “a young woman growing up in a changing Iran.” Given the current Iran election turmoil, it seemed the least we could do was bring the book back into the public eye.
…amidst the current chaos surrounding the Iranian election results, Satrapi stood alonside Mohsen Makhmalbaf, filmmaker and spokesman for opposition candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi, at the European Parliament to protest the results, with a document claiming to throw serious doubt on the numbers.
A new comic is sure to follow. Looks like we have some reading and netflixing to do.
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People should read this to understand that the Iranians are as suppressed as most of us are.
And they don't hate the west as the TV makes us believe. Their people are like some of us Malaysians who love to listen to punk rock and heavy metal.
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