The Jarasum International Jazz Festival is returning this October and guess what? Ocean of Fire + Dasha Logan has been invited to perform at the 7th edition of the event! According to news reports on the net, the festival draws about 100,000 people each year to the area of Jaraseom, which translates to “Turtle Island”, [...]

Posted on July 13th, 2010 by Jon
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Of late, I’ve become interested in the subject of astronomy, thanks to my meeting with Dr Chong of Universiti Sains Malaysia’s School of Physics. Dr Chong is an iconic figure in the field of astronomy in Penang, no less the whole of Malaysia. Talk to the man and I’m pretty sure you’ll be interested in [...]

Posted on January 20th, 2010 by Jon
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Posted on December 16th, 2009 by Jon
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Day 2 of  PIJF = totally wicked. I’ll let the pictures do the talking: Pix from day 1  will come later, cos I was using my buddy Wilson’s rig that day – and he brought his gear home to KL before I could get the pix, hahaha…

Posted on December 10th, 2009 by Jon
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To all jazz and music lovers/enthusiasts/ etc etc: keep Dec 3, 4, 5, and 6 free. As mentioned earlier, it’s that time of the year again for the Penang Island Jazz Festival. This is the 6th year it’s running, thanks to all the support the festival has received and of course to Paul Augustine, the [...]

Posted on November 30th, 2009 by Jon
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There’s gonna be a little jazz concert next week as a run up to this year’s Penang Island Jazz Festival. Yup, it’s that time of the year again where all music lovers come down to enjoy some jazz by the beach on the first weekend of December. This year’s event is going to be huge, [...]

Posted on November 13th, 2009 by Jon
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I got a call late yesterday about some Swiss band that was going to take over the 3rd set at the G-Spot. Well, why not right? So I headed down to the place and then… I came across this bass,  which from a distance, it looks like a normal Fender P-bass Special with the usual [...]

Posted on October 6th, 2009 by Jon
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Hi folks, I know it’s been awhile since I last updated, but things have been getting pretty crazy around here BUT my band Ocean of Fire is going to be rockin’ for 5 nights starting TONIGHT over this weekend and the next at various locations in Penang. Yes, I know you know that we all [...]

Posted on February 27th, 2009 by Jon
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY DASHA!!! Dasha is one of the most promising up-and-coming singers in town today. I’ve had the pleasure of working with her on numerous occasion, the latest being at the recent PIJF’s Fringe Experimental Stage. She still remains as at the top of my vocal list whenever I get a gig which requires a [...]

Posted on December 17th, 2008 by Jon
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Thanks Paul of the Capricorn Connection for giving us two days of wicked music. Also thanks to Wilson aka chubby bunny for letting me use his kick ass camera!

Posted on December 17th, 2008 by Jon
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