Borneo Jazz First Night Performance Photographs - Fabian's Snapshot 2014

The sunset over the horizon marks the beginning of the performance at Borneo Jazz Festival 2014 stage. This blog post is only for the photographs taken throughout the event. So, enjoy!

MC for the night

Diana Liu takes the stage

Smoothing vocal

More and more crowd coming in to enjoy the music

Mario Canonge is up next

Awesome performance indeed 

JunkOFunk took the stage and set it on fire!

Vocal Sampling all the from Cuba

Hotel California lead guitar sound

Now, for those that was not there and wonder what was the crowd reaction. Here you go.

They scream, they shout and they dance! Awesome crowd, awesome time, awesome performance, awesome atmosphere! 

Borneo Jazz Festival 2014 - Performance Night 1

Beautiful isn't it? Another way to kick start the first performance night of Borneo Jazz Festival 2014!

For those who were there that night, you might know the sequent of the performance. Chung Hwa Secondary School Brass Band open up the show with their signature performance. It is also a great way to welcome the visitors of Borneo Jazz Festival 2014. Unfortunately, I didn't manage to capture any of their performance (so sorry guys!).

So, night falls at Parkcity Everly Hotel and the second performance was by Malaysia's own, Diana Liu. Her smoothing and unique voice really give you that relax mood. Overall, her performance was great! Some might feel that the first performance should be big and fill with explosive, but my honest opinion, she set the mood just nice to boost the energy for the next performance.

Up next would be Mr. Mario Canonge of Martinique!

Now, here is a pianist that has awesome talent. His piano skills was just phenomenal. For this performance,  you can really feel that Mario is bring up the energy to another level. Crowd start to cheer and dance along with his music. According to my fellow bloggers, this is the first time that they actually see the crowd getting highly involve with the performance. Obvious respond was dancing and cheering. A good sign indeed.

Next performance is from a band from Kuala Lumpur. Many asked, are they playing jazz or funk? My answer, who cares! Their music is fun to listen. Here is JunkOFunk!

Ok, most of their music was influenced by funk music instead of jazz. Even Russell's shirt asked "GOT FUNK?" But did the crowd enjoy their performance? From the looks of it, they did. This time, the hundreds of people standing in front of the stage cheering on and sing along with the band. IT WAS CRAZY. When Double D came up to us and said, JunkOFunk is gonna drop the bomb. They drop the damn nuclear at Borneo Jazz Festival 2014 stage! That is how big and awesome their performance was. 

Next up is an acapella band. They performed for us during the tree planting ceremony and they took the stage as the last performance of Borneo Jazz Festival 2014. This is Vocal Sampling. 

All the way from Cuba, Vocal Sampling came and conquer the Borneo Jazz Festival stage with their awesome tune of sounds. One song that really stuck in my head is when they performed "Hotel California". Especially when one of them did the lead guitar sound! That was awesome!! There was a moment when I stare at them trying to figure out who was doing the bass sound. I was standing next to this huge speaker and the bass sounded so real! What a way to end the performance for the first night of Borneo Jazz Festival! But the fun doesn't stop there. 

This year, the introduce two (2) after party segment. The first is the DJ set with DJ Roundhead (from Traxx FM) and the second segment is a jamming session with the performers at Ruai Lounge. I went to the DJ set with the other bloggers and find a great way to just enjoy the rest of the night dancing away like there's no tomorrow. However, I didn't get to cover the jamming session as all of us was drop dead exhausted. 

So, that was the summary of the first night performance of Borneo Jazz Festival 2014. Will post up all the photographs taken in my next blog (Fabian's Snapshot 2014 - Borneo Jazz Fest 2014) and the second night performance blog post will be out soon! 

Update

Its been a sober weekend for me this week. Didn't even went out cause of the weather. In case you didn't know, the weather here is glommy. Guess its the season now.

So, since I didn't go anywhere this weekend. I actually enjoy staying at home. One of yhe reason is the privacy I get  cause my brother spend his weekend with his girlfriend and friends. And no, I did not spend the whole weekend in my room. I actually did something that I haven't done in so many years. Which is composing a song. To be honest. It didn't work out cause the I ran out of idea to write the lyrics. But it felt good to do something that you've haven't been doing.

That is one part of me that none of my friends know of. Well, since I did not manage to finish up the song I decided to do a cover song instead. I would love to share the video or recordings with you guys but unfortunately I did not do any recording. Sorry.

Which song you might ask? Letters to you by Finch, Buried Myself Alive by The Used and Outside by Stand. Trust me. Those songs are not easy to sing.

After the unsuccessful attempts in making those cover songs, I decided to go on youtube and search for other cover songs. That is how I normally get my so called inspirstion from. Found whole bunch of cover songs and did couple of attempt but fail. But it does not bumps me out knowing that I couldn't do those things. I was enjoying it actually. There's a saying that goes like this "no matter how many failure you faced, as long as you enjoy doing what you do, those failure will eventually turn out to be a success".

No guys, I'm not going to persue my long desire dream of becoming an artist but I enjoy listening and making music. Guess it true what they say, music can cure the heartache.

Moral of the story is, enjoy doing the things that you love the most as it could calm you down and brings you happiness.

Cheers!!