Music Picks: Video series Alive And Kicking, tribute concert A Song For Louis
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Singapore band Coming Up Roses are one the home-grown acts featured in online video series Alive and Kicking.
PHOTO: SNAKEWEED STUDIOS
Snakeweed Presents : Alive And Kicking
The fourth and final episode of online music series Alive And Kicking features the members of home-grown alternative rock band Coming Up Roses going around Shun Li Industrial Park in Kaki Bukit, making sound recordings that they later use in composing and recording a new song.
Alive And Kicking is by Snakeweed Studios, a music studio run by scene veteran Leonard Soosay, and part of National Arts Council's #sgcultureanywhere initiative.
Each episode runs for 15 to 20 minutes. In the first instalment released on March 31, hip-hop trio Mediocre Haircut Crew recorded sounds around the Toa Payoh heartland and turned them into a tune.
The other episodes featured indie outfit Islandeer and instrumental quartet cues.
When: Ongoing
A Song For Louis
Members of the local jazz fraternity pay tribute to the legacy of Louis Soliano, Singapore's "godfather of jazz", in this concert which is part of the Singapore International Festival of Arts.
Soliano's long career spans six decades and has taken him around the globe. In 2018, he was awarded the Cultural Medallion, the nation's highest arts honour.
The concert will feature 13 other musicians, including another Cultural Medallion recipient Jeremy Monteiro, flutist Rit Xu as well as singers Rahimah Rahim, Joanna Dong and Richard Jackson.
Soliano will also perform.
Where: Victoria Theatre, 9 Empress Place; online
MRT: Raffles Place
When: May 14, 6 and 9pm (in-venue); June 5 to 12 (video-on-demand)
Admission: $15 for video-on-demand at sifa.sg. In-venue tickets are sold out.
Post-punk/Experimental
Bright Green Field
Squid
4 stars
Bright Green Field is the debut album by rising British band Squid, which have released three acclaimed EPs in the last few years.
The work is an amalgam of experimental sounds that stretches post-punk boundaries to include krautrock beats and jazz-funk styling.
Tunes such as Peel St. and G.S.K. are as danceable as they are unpredictable, with noodling guitar riffs and slinky bass lines that veer off course when you least expect it.
Vocalist/drummer Ollie Judge has an unsettling way of singing, fitting for the dystopian thread running through the songs.
In Narrator, he is the titular character who is losing his grip on reality, while Paddling deals with the fear that comes with change.
