WVC Jazz Ensemble's Latest Album! June 2021
Purnama. A bright full Moon, perfect. It lights up the whole of human civilisation. The Moon is timeless, and yet we use its phases to compute and comprehend time, to mark change, to symbolise the repetitive cycles of the world. It presents a different face each night, different versions of itself, the light as well as the hidden dark, as it waxes and wanes endlessly.
The image of a new Moon seemed somehow to capture the spirit of those times, for Malaysia’s national anthem,
‘Negaraku’,
shares its melody
with a gorgeous
love song made
popular in the
1920s,
‘Terang Bulan’,
and also with
‘Mamula Moon’
or ‘Moonlight Song’
月光曲
or ‘Moonlight in the
Southern Sea’ 南海月夜.
Perhaps these songs,
I thought, showed us the
glint of light on the new
road taken.
WVC’s latest album
Purnama includes
12 songs rearranged, performed by acclaimed Malaysian musicians.
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