{"id":685,"date":"2006-08-07T04:40:24","date_gmt":"2006-08-07T04:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=685"},"modified":"2006-08-07T04:40:24","modified_gmt":"2006-08-07T04:40:24","slug":"an-ode-to-cosmic-funk-express-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=685","title":{"rendered":"An Ode To Cosmic Funk Express, Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nAlda<\/a>: We regret to inform you that this will be Cosmic Funk Express<\/a>‘s last gig.<\/i><\/p>\n


\nIn times like these, they must put on their hats and carry on.<\/p>\n


\nTheir last performance was at the Sunrise Jazz & Rhythm Fest<\/a>, August 4th, 2006. (They also performed last year<\/a> and the year before<\/a>.)<\/p>\n


\nHowdy cowboy.<\/p>\n


\nAlda has always been an entertaining bassist with stage presence.<\/p>\n


\nThis picture is so wrong. (Alda has a knack for standing on things<\/a>.)<\/p>\n


\nAlex Ang<\/b> on drums.<\/p>\n


\nThis guy is a technical beat math whiz.<\/p>\n


\nIzwin<\/b> joins for the covers, including the very funky Incubus – Summer Romance<\/i>. Yes, Cosmic Funk Express is otherwise an out-of-worldly instrumental funk\/jazz rock band.<\/p>\n


\nSavy<\/b> is the often forgotten keyboardist, who joined for the covers. I did not notice if she played for all the songs.<\/p>\n

I’ve been following Cosmic Funk Express since their first drummer, Elliot. I’m not sure if the first time I’d seen them play was at Shelley Leong<\/a>‘s album launch<\/a>. I mourn the loss of an amazing Malaysian band, who’d play Eric Johnson – Cliffs Of Dover<\/i> when I shout for it<\/a>. A band that would win a Battle Of The Bands<\/a>. The first time I touched a Canon EOS 350D<\/a>, I took pictures of them.<\/p>\n

Please click on the links in this post, so you can see what my pictures used to look like. If you haven’t done it, scroll up!<\/p>\n

Yeah, maybe you noticed that I introduced the band in alphabetical order – Alda, Alex, Izwin, Savy, and… and… Z… ZZZ. I gotta sleep man. Next update: The superstar of Cosmic Funk Express, and videos, when I figure out how to reencode them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Alda: We regret to inform you that this will be Cosmic Funk Express‘s last gig. In times like these, they must put on their hats and carry on. Their last performance was at the Sunrise Jazz & Rhythm Fest, August 4th, 2006. (They also performed last year and the year before.) Howdy cowboy. Alda has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-pictures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}