Keeping It Real by Azmyl Yunor

Saturday, February 24, 2018 | 3pm - 6pm

Free Admission.

As a day job seeker, Educator, Lyricist and song writer. Keeping it all in the good balance and living the dream of acoustic rock and roll. Azmyl talks about his journey of music through an open ended dialogue of songs and stories.

Azmyl Yunor

The only Malaysian independent/underground artist to have a musical theatre staged (besides the legendary P. Ramlee) about him (2013's "Something I Wrote"), Azmyl Yunor has dabbled in, amongst others, folk rock, punk, free-form instrumentals and experimental noise rock for the past two decades. Although widely known as a singer-songwriter, he is also the founding member of seminal bands like quad-lingual punk rockers Ben's Bitches, avant-rockers The Maharajah Commission and fire-breathing no wavers Ciplak in the early 2000s.

Informed by the DIY punk ethos & philosophy, he's shared the stage with acts as far ranging as local punk legends Carburetor Dung, American folk punk poet Jeffrey Lewis, chanteuse Yuna, Japanese rock legend Damo Suzuki, and singer/composer M.Nasir. He has been releasing recordings on his own since 1997 and has also published research writing on music subcultures, moral panics & cultural politics and hosts his own radio show on alternative country music in between his busy schedule.

A rare talent in combining angst, wit, and humility seamlessly in his socially-aware bi-lingual songs (solo or with his current live band Azmyl Yunor & Orkes Padu), Azmyl is a force of nature by local standards who abides by his own rules and lives by the late gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson's maxim "When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro."