Sunday, January 23, 2011

ARADIA 'Draconis Eulogy" - I DONT GIVE MY CONSENT ON THIS

Thanks to Dr Ibrisam for this review written on his blog and i republish it again here and you might want to get my point of view as an ex member of this band so please find it here :-)
I have to agree on his point, as an ex-member of this band i have a strong reason to be proud of its heritage and tradition of upholding the true musicianship of semi complexity and semi technicality kind of music with strong and sharp melodic lines along the way. But a point to consider here is that the product actually reviewed here is NOT the actual product or to be precise, it is not available in your favourite CD store nationwide because the real mixing or final mixing of this recording has been MODIFIED and ALTERED without getting consent from me and our ex-guitarist Jeff or Trismegistus. The final result is a total disaster! Sorry to say, we (me and Jeff were so demotivated at that time knowing that the modified version was used and mastered and sold to the public!) decided to put an end to this ego-centered irrationally behaviour of certain party from the band itself and there it goes from there onwards. I would like to write more on this but having a second thought, it is a waste of time. Nevertheless, good luck.

Aradia telah mendapat tempat dalam hati aku semenjak mengenali mereka di dalam kompilasi Storm Of Nebiula lagi. Kelahiran album ini selepas album live pada tahun 1998 memang dinanti-nanti.

ARADIA tidak pernah merilis album yang proper selain dari album live tersebut. Itu agak pelik. Tetapi memang banyak kepelikan yang ada dalam 'industri' ekstrim Metal tempatan.

ARADIA di dalam kelompok muzik Black Metal tempatan mendapat tempat di hati ini disebabkan merekalah yang berani saya katakan the real deal. All in one package.

Pertamanya, tahap musicianship memang tidak boleh disangkal. Sungguh mantap. Lebih-lebih dalam album ini, segala stroke dan skil yang terpendam diusaikan secara menyeluruh.

Yang keduanya, disebalik teknikaliti dan tahap musicianship yang tinggi, sense of melody mereka juga sangat tajam. Dalam keganasan ada bunganya. Ambil sahaja mana-mana lagu, pastinya sebab pertama dan kedua pasti ada dianyam sekali.

Produksi juga mantap walaupun boleh diperbaiki lagi. Tapi memang begitulah tahap produksi di negara kita, walau sebaik mana pun pasti kita akan rasa semacam satu dua rempah yang tak cukup. Cuma bolehlah dikatakan bahawa, antara yang terbaik, produksi album masuk dalam alumni tersebut.

Untuk mereka yang baru mengenali ARADIA, mereka memainkan muzik Black Metal bermelodi yang banyak condongnya kepada rentak yang dipelopori oleh klan dari Sweden. Muziknya adalah laju pada kebanyakan masa tetapi tidak juga melupakan alunan yang lebih perlahan pada satu dua tempat. Muziknya kompleks dan memerlukan skil yang bukan biasa untuk mendapatkan apa yang dimainkan oleh mereka.

Kekuatan ARADIA terletak pada melodi di dalam ekstrimiti dengan skil permainan instrumen yang boleh tahan dahsyat, sesuatu yang kurang didapati pada band tempatan sekarang ini.

Journal article


Business Management Quarterly Journal has accepted my paper 'Revisiting and redefining the concept of retakaful and the viability of its model in malaysian takaful industry'. Alhamdullilah and this will be published in volume 2 issue 4 December 2011. Hope more ideas will come as i am in the mood to write.



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Brand new world 2011

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