SquareCircles - Immediately Seek Attention (Bassraptor's new album)

Folks, my band's debut CD is out, limited run, so grab one if your musical tastes run to folk, the blues and exotic stuff. Contact me if any difficulty getting a copy.



This is the band's press release:


SQUARECIRCLES

Geometrically challenged … defiantly out of synch with trends … perhaps even belonging to another time in musical history. When a band’s music can’t be summed up in a single word, then there is every reason to be ambiguous when groping for a description.

SquareCircles was formed in late 2008, when a wave of political change had scythed through Malaysia. This turn of events and the country’s unique social flavour influenced the band’s lyrical approach, which varies between contemplative and tongue-in-cheek.

The band gigged with its original songs at various Klang Valley venues, including No Black Tie, and even found itself performing on the fringe stages of the Penang Island Jazz Festival in late 2009, much to its surprise.

Events gradually coalesced into SquareCircle’s debut CD, Immediately Seek Attention, which took more than two years to finally find its way out of the pressing plant. So here it is, then … open to interpretation and unrepentant in its musical direction (or lack of, depending).

The album was entirely self-financed - well, actually, borrow funds - and recorded, mixed and mastered in the home studios of various band members.

Its cover was conceived and designed by Tapa, well known for his artwork on numerous Malaysian rock albums over the past three decades.

Immediately Seek Attention, which comprises eight tracks, is priced at RM24.90.

The band? Just a bunch of guys who’re crazy enough about music to want to play a gig at the end of a busy day at the office.

The SquareCircles collective:

Sujesh Pavithran (nylon-string acoustic guitar, vocals)

N. R. Lohan (electric and slide guitars)

Kevin Theseira (bass, backing vocals)

Krishna Kumar (cajon, tabla)

Wong Lip Kee (keys, percussions, harmonica)

parked at: www.facebook.com/SquareCirclesMalaysia

email: squarecirclesmalaysia@gmail.com

tel: +6012-3094001

SquareCircles - Immediately Seek Attention (Interglobal Music Malaysia) is available at these outlets:

- Victoria Music (Sungei Wang, Tropicana Mall, Bangsar Shopping Complex, Amcorp Mall and Parkson Malacca)

- Speedy (Midvalley, Bangsar Village and Pavillion)

- Movie Magic - 1 Utama, PJ

- CD Rama, Ikano, Mutiara Damansara, PJ

- Friendly Records, Ipoh

- Artist Gallery, Gurney Plaza, Penang

- Love Music, Ampang Park, KL

- Golden Light, Ampark Park, KL