22nd January 2014: Pisco Live Mic vol 2.3 featuring Reza Salleh and Clinton Liew.

Despite the many times I’d been to Pisco Bar before this, this would be the first time I’d come armed with a camera, besides my phone. Fascinating how that is!

An open miker who opened. I did not get her name.

Keyboardist for said open miker.

Clinton Liew!

Very cool pedal setup – if only for the color theme, that reminds me too much of Optimus Prime, down to the white stripe and blue.

Pisco Bar is so dark I am glad I brought my Sony Carl Zeiss Planar T* 50mm F1.4 ZA SSM.

I’ve seen this Korg with LED lights around.

For a slightly tighter shot, I brought my Opteka 85mm F1.4. I like how the frets form bokeh!

Clinton Liew has his sound in groovy, lightly funky pop. This agrees with his covers of Bruno Mars – Treasure and Justin Timberlake – LoveStoned/I Think She Knows.

Then came Reza Salleh.

Zalila Lee on percussion and Melina William on five-string bass.

No stranger to the scene, though a first to Pisco Bar.

Contemplative moment.

I’d first seen Reza and his soul folk with influences of rock, at the Songwriters Avenue 2, January 4th 2005 (just over 9 years ago), just two roads parallel to this.

A goofy moment.

They took a break, and some open mikers took the stage.

Random jammer drummer.

Fancy a horn section?

Two emcees and one old-school rocker.

Oh, magical Zeiss and my Sony Alpha 99 doing ISO6400 to get this.

Shane Tan of Ministry Of Blunk, hops on stage for a blues jam.

The freeform nature of this open mic is rather different from others I’d experienced. Reza and band then returned to stage.

After their second set, there was a jam again, with Clinton’s bassist.

Now on the mike.

Shane, too.