Here comes the last batch of Troubadours pictures – this time, from the Troubadours/Open Doors gig on the 19th of March 2006, at the Indicine, KL Performing Arts Centre.

I don’t remember much of the first short film, other than a lot of clouds.

Khai starts the musical set on an upside-down-restrung-leftie guitar, with classic singalongs from his Khaimano days, including the ever-so-relevant This Is Black Metal.

Rhapsody the jazzy duo.

The projector was interfering with the photos, yes indeed, even from the side.

Taking a picture with flash was not enough to get rid of the projected light, so I had to change to manual mode, 1/500th of a second to darken the effect of the projector.

Then came a short film. Liew Seng Tat’s Flowers was a most vivid, disturbing short film about what I reckon is an old lady reminiscing about her affair with a Japanese soldier during the Japanese occupation. Except, of course, that the flashback is in color, and the old lady doesn’t look any younger. Kudos to the director for also being the star, the Japanese soldier (just like how Khai was the star of Ciplak). Yeah, there were scenes. Like Fazri said, “My eyes! Argh my eyes!”

Jerome Kugan the Morrisey-isque, amazing falsettoed singer. He sings over techno beats he programs himself!

His laptop plays his beats.

To equalize the exposure from the screen and him, I used flash at 1/80th of a second shutter speed.

He dances, feels the music, and his expressions are truly in tune with the space and time vortex conjured by his dreamy soundscapes.