The general term of the word ‘Music’ has define as an art of sound arrangements which exists within the sequences to produce various compositions with the used of the melody, harmony, rhythm, and timbre (Houghton Mifflin Company, 2003). On another hand, the terms of determining the genre of music are limitless. This is because it depends on the exposure of one towards various style of music through out his or her years and also the music background of a person. Hence, different people would have different thoughts and definition to determine the genre of music.

        As for my concert review, I have attended a local band performance for ‘the AXN challenge’ at One Utama, high street on 4th of April, 2009. There were two local bands that performed in this particular event and it was Estranged and Pop Shuvit. However, my main focus would be on Estranged and the genre that I would be examining is ‘Rock’. The word ‘Rock’ was originated from the word ‘Rock ‘n’ Roll’ back in the year of 1954. ‘Rock ‘n’ Roll’ was actually an obvious reference to sex. Thus at the year of 1964, it was entitle again as the ‘Rock Music’ (infoplease.com, 2006). As for being a musician, the genre ‘Rock’ is the category and direction of music that I have been associated and familiarize with. Therefore, this concert review would be based on my experience, my knowledge upon ‘Rock’ and also certain readings that could define the further meaning ‘Rock’ and it’s characteristics.

        The band was formed during the year of 2005 and is quite well known around Malaysia as the band has won several titles for best Rock category. The band members were Rich as vocalist, Din Hormatov as rhythm guitarist, Nor Hanafi as lead guitarist, Azwin Andy as the drummer and Chow Ken Chung as bassist. Unfortunately Chow Ken Chung has left the band after the published of the newest album “Remain Unknown” (http://www.estranged.info/). The band started performing at proximally around 3:00p.m.

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Due to the reason that the stage and the area indoor were limited with addition that they were only guest band invited to perform for the event, the form of crowd gathering was not really much. A total of 5 songs were perform by the band, which is ‘Dances of the Spirits’, ‘The Slave in Us’, ‘In No Time’, ‘Yang Pernah’ and ‘Itu Kamu’ (according to the sequence during the performances). The interpretation that the band brings was beyond phenomenal.

        This band has established well on defining the Rock bands nowadays, as its electronics used were all generic band ...

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