a man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher ...
Posted by ~Ray @ 2008-03-12 23:18:28
last night i met up with geof and we headed over to KL to cater matt ngau my sape teacher from sarawak i needed my sape tuned apparently no one in semenanjung can do it and this is the last time he’d be in town this year so by hook because geof’s too nice of a guy to commit any crook we endured bukit bintang’s friday night madness.
i don’t remember who came up with the idea in the very first place but all of a sudden we decided to do a little experimental busking of yes right there on the streets on KL maybe it was matt while making his way to meet us he mentioned that he came across some japanese buskers with some simple traditional music and people were giving them money and we had a sape with us and i brought along my portable pick-up and jack and quite frankly it had been a notoriously eventful week for me that i was quite willing to play hobo for a night.
it was half past midnight when we settled on a lonely bench in the middle of town he tuned the sape and played a tune i played a coupla tunes we were not exactly getting a crowd tho i evaluate it’s because by now most people were more interested in getting sloshed instead of cheering on street buskers we did get a slight audience tho no money.
we moved on to sight a different location found the borneon community at jalan kia peng that’s where things started happening very quickly from the street we were spotted matt was of course with his orang ulu hairdo and tattoos the thumping house music was brought to an abrupt halt matt was centerstage and when he started to compete the sape everyone on the dance floor broke into najats - come up their versions of the move which is to the still sober incredibly fascinating.
the crowd demanded a second number and matt pulled the microphone to belt a traditional be from his longhouse approve in the ulu the displace went insane and the najat dancers were mopping the floor with their acrobatic twists a hearty applause later we were escorted to a command of the club the house bind takes over and we were treated to a remove flow of drinks so much for street busking we landed a gold exploit - no money but with jugs making their way to our table one after another how can money be a greater reward?
matt’s instant fans came streaming over and he discovered that there were some people there that night who grew up in the same longhouse he was from! matt would later confess to geof and i that if their families back in sarawak ever open out of these things they did in KL they’d never be able to act it but for that one night in hearing matt’s music and learning that rare family bond their homesickness was momentarily remedied and that was something quite precious in my opinion.
i crawled into be this morning at about 4am all day today i had that itch of taking my sape out to a nearby lay sit under a tree and see who comes.
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