Azmyl Yunor / Hell Low — The Pedra Branca Split Tape

Band: Azmyl Yunor / Hell Low
Title: The Pedra Branca 
Label: Noisemongers Records
Catalog No.: NOIS05
Format: Extended Play (EP), Split, Cassette Tape, Limited
Release Date: April 2014
Genre / Style: Folk
Streaming Link: Bandcamp

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The Pedra Branca EP is a collaborative effort between Malaysian folk punk singer-songwriter, Azmyl Yunor (The Sigarettes, Ben's Bitches, The Maharajah Commission, Ciplak, Roarm) and Singaporean doom folk artist Hell Low (Jeremy Lee). Born out of several random yet fruitful meetings in Singapore and Malaysia, the EP was recorded, engineered and produced by acclaimed producer and musician Ronnie Khoo (Furniture, Ciplak) at his home studio (Stickylight) between November 2013 and March 2014. Also featured on the EP are Malaysian folk singer-songwriter Heymun and composer and Theremin player Ng Chor Guan. 

The EP stands out a beacon for understanding of commonalities between the cross-strait neighbors. Each song a carefully crafted tribute to love, loss and living in their respective countries. It also acknowledges the tensions that exist between borders as different yet similar cultures and ideals clash and coalesce. In the end it is an EP about hope. Hope for the future of both our countries as politics up north take on a distinctively non-secular slant and those down south move on from a one party system of governance. 

* Pedra Branca is an outlying Singaporean island and also the eastern most point of Singapore that was a subject of a territorial dispute between Malaysia and Singapore that was finally settled by the International Court of Justice ruling in 2008.

Track Listing

Recorded, mixed and mastered at Stickylight, Malaysia.
Engineered by Ronnie Khoo.
Produced by Ronnie Khoo, Azmyl Yunor and Jeremy Lee (Hell Low).
Video by Gan Siong King. 
Design by Ken Tan.