Keunggulan Muzik Melayu

Petikan PESTA (1995 - tarikh tidak dapat dikenalpasti)

Muzik dan lagu Melayu dapat diterima oleh pelbagai kaum. Inilah yang dibuktikan oleh M.Nasir menerusi Konsert Akar yang berlangsung di PWTC pada bulan Oktober lalu yang dihadiri oleh penonton berbilang bangsa.

“Jika kena gaya dan memberi satu persembahan bermutu tinggi tidak ada sebab kita tidak boleh menarik minat bangsa lain menyaksikan konsert lagu lagu Melayu.”

Pada malam persembahan itu M Nasir telah mempersembahkan konsert yang berkualiti tinggi dan menghiburkan.

Konsert Akar Manifestasi Akustika telah menelan belanja RM250,000 membuktikan kepada para penganjur bahawa artis artis tempatan mampu membuat persembahan yang lebih baik dari artis luar sekiranya diberi peluang yang adil.

Persembahan M Nasir diiringi oleh 12 orang pemuzik bertali dari Filipina yang dipimpin oleh Eddie Marzuki dan para pemuzik tempatan iaitu Yan (Bass), Aznan (gitar), Rafi (gitar), Mohar (seruling), Zul Mahad (piano), S Atan (akordian), Tom (dram), Addie (saksofon), Mohd Rejab (trombon) dan Cony Soliano (trompet).

Dua batang pokok berakar mengisi bahagian kiri dah kanan pentas sementara dua buah lukisan besar direntangkan sebagai penghias dan mewarnai latar belakang. Sistem pencahayaan yang menarik memberi mood kepada lagu lagu yang dinyanyikan oleh M. Nasir.

Kumpulan Freshies sebagai penyanyi latar membuktikan kemampuan vokal mereka dan M Nasir sentiasa mengekalkan khidmat mereka dalam banyak pertunjukan.

Irama muzik M Nasir pada malam itu disulam dengan beberapa unsur-unsur simbolik seperti seorang bayi (anak bongsunya) yang dijulang menandakan permulaan konsert sebelum N Nasir berusaha keluar selubungan kain merah dan memulakan nyanyian dengan lagu Nusantara.

Dewan yang riuh dengan sorakan penonton senyap sunyi seketika bilamana seniman serba bole ini menyampaikan lagu Kau Yang Satu yang dihidupkan dengan pancaran bulatan lampu yang dihalakan ke arah penonton.

Setelah menyampaikan lima lagu antaranya Mustika, Kepadamu Kekasih, dan Lambaian Sukma, M Nasir telqh menjemput penyanyi yang diundang khas dari Indonesia, Ebiet G Ade. Mereka berduet menyampaikan sebuah lagu berjudul Khabar buat Kawan.

Ebiet meneruskan persembahan secara solo dengan menyanyikan dua buah lagu yang diminati di negara ini iaitu Titip Rindu Buat Ayah dqn Kamelia ll.

Kemudian tanpa berlengah M Nasir meneruskan persembahannya dengan lagu lagu lama dan baru antaranya Akar Kita, Panji Gelora, Nyanyian Jiwa, Keroncong Buat Ana, Mencurah Janji di Daun Keladi, Tanya Sama Itu Hud Hud, Mentera Semerah Padi, Bonda dan lain-lain.

Walaupun telah lebih dua jam menyaksikan persembahan, para penonton masih tidak berpuas hati dan meminta M Nasir meneruskan nyanyiannya. Untuk tidak menghampakan M. Nasir menyanyikan lagu Apokalips sebagai lagu perpisahan.

Kira-kira lebih tiga ribu penonton malam itu pulang dengan penuh rasa puas dan tidak merasa rugi mengeluarkan duit RM50-RM70 bagi menyaksikan persembahan yang bermutu ini. Malah ramai juga yang berbelanja lebih daitu bagi mendapatkan barangan cenderamata seperti kemeja T khas konsert yang dijual di ruang legar Dewan Merdeka.

M Nasir berharap para peminatnya yang tidak dapat menyaksikan persembahan pada malam itu akan turut sama terhibur melalui video, cakera padat atau kaset rakaman konsert ini yang akan dipasarkan oleh BMG tidak lama lagi.

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Tiket Konsert : Sumber osmantikus.tripod.com

M Nasir - Artis Paling Popular Anugerah Bintang Popular (ABP) pada 1994.

sumber Youtube  & Wikipedia 

Anugerah Bintang-Bintang Popular Berita Harian ke-8 adalah penganjuran majlis penganugerahan seniman tahunan kali kelapan anjuran Berita Harian (kini dikenali sebagai Anugerah Bintang Popular).

Artis Paling Popular: M. Nasir

Penyanyi Lelaki Popular: M. Nasir

Penyanyi Wanita Popular: Amy Mastura

Penyanyi Berkumpulan Popular: Spring

Pelakon Filem Lelaki Popular: Awie

Pelakon Filem Wanita Popular: Erra Fazira

Pelakon Filem Pembantu Lelaki Popular: Mustapha Kamal

Pelakon Filem Pembantu Wanita Popular: Ziana Zain

Penghibur TV Lelaki Popular: KRU

Penghibur TV Wanita Popular: Nora

Pelakon TV Lelaki Popular: Shukery Hashim

Pelakon TV Wanita Popular: Sofia Jane

Artis Komedi Lelaki Popular: Sabri Yunus

Artis Komedi Wanita Popular: Wan Maimunah

What some people do in a life time, M Nasir, does in five months

INTERVIEW BY STEVEN PATRICK
JANUARY 17-31, 1995 / GALAXIE 11

JULY, 1994: His album Canggung Mendonan is certified platinum, selling over 50,000 copies. He then defies the critics who call him "too ambitious" by staging a sold-out concert at Stadium Negara. In between, he produces Amy's debut solo album Magic.
AUGUST: EMI releases a double-album tribute to Nasir, titled Bunyi Yang Dilihat. It's a compilation of some of his greatest hits written for other singers, including Sudirman, Sharifah Aini, Seha, Ekamantra and Roy. Another sold-out concert at UKM follows.
SEPTEMBER: He participates in the ill-attended Malam Karyawan Malaysia, a charity concert in aid of Bosnia. He then criticises the music industry at a press conference, accusing songwriters of being lazy and composing standard fluff.
OCTOBER: He rests.
NOVEMBER: His July concert, Canggung, is aired on TV, he gives an interview to a Singaporean tabloid and Canggung Mendonan breaks the 80,000 mark.
DECEMBER: He wins TV3's annual Juara Lagu competition with Tanya Sama Itu Hud Hud. He also graduates with a diploma of fine arts and becomes a painter.

If all of M. Nasir's work and musical endeavours were to be documented, it would be some book. He is our very own pop and rock philosopher, writing, literally, hundreds of hits for himself and others. He has to this date been involved in 50 albums. "Writing songs is a spiritual thing," Nasir explains with his usual calm.

He started writing in the early 70s when he was paid a mere RM50 per song. The rate has since risen and he also commands royalties, but not an awful lot. This still isn't America, but it's not "just a living" with Nasir either. It seems to be more of a passion. He learned to play the guitar at the age of 10. "It was my brother's guitar. He also studied a bit of piano, bought all the records, that's how I got influenced. I was into folk and pop music. I was exposed to all kinds of music and I really like them all."

"I was not interested in playing music just as an instrumentalist," he points out. "I loved music in general and I wanted to write it." So he did. He wrote a couple of songs for the Alleycats but it was Sweet Charity who gave Nasir his first recorded song, Bertemu Dan Berpisah. "I wrote it in half an hour - music first, lyrics later." Elaborating on his relationship with Ramli Sarip, then the lead singer of Sweet Charity, Nasir seems to speak of him with respect. "Ramli and I lived in the same place. He made it in music first, I was trying to be a footballer. I even wanted to be a golfer because I was a caddie. Ramli's a rock n' roller. Always rock 'n' roll based."

Nasir's contribution to Sweet Charity's album is particularly important since the group recorded the first rock album. Of course, there were other rock acts like Black Dog Bone hanging around but "they did not how to push distortion," says Nasir. "We listened to rock in the 70s. It took more than 10 years to reach the country.'-'

M. Nasir is one of the most important figures in the history of Malaysian music: He was responsible for refining and texturing pop-rock music. "When we started, we never listened to combo bands, big bands. We hated all trumpet playing bands. Rock was considered underground then. The mainstream was Ahmad Nawab." What is ironic of Nasir and Ramli's involvement in confirming our musical roots is that they are both from Singapore. "Singapore was the entertainment centre of this region, the film industry and music. I once represented Malaysia when I was still Singaporean."

Of course, when the music industry was at its infant stage, no one spoke about royalties. Nasir initially accepted whatever he was given. "I was so enthusiastic about my first album that it didn't matter. I think I got some royalties - six percent divide by two minus 10 percent, or something like that. I was the earliest to get proper royalties." Writing original songs wasn't encouraged either. "The industry was not sure of our local talents. I have done producer jobs for RM400. I never felt it was too little. It was just the situation."

It's clear that money wasn't the motivating factor since Nasir continued to write regardless. Today he has a huge body of work to look back on, or maybe not. I don't really like reminiscing. There is no favourite song of mine. I always think the next one will be better. Maybe the next one will be a masterpiece." Maybe it's all in the method in which he composes. "I just let the tape go and I just write. A song takes me half an hour, two, three days max."

He claims he never gets "writer's block" because his interests vary. He terms alternative music today as a "subterranean thing" rather than a career. "I have a certain attitude," he admits. "I couldn't care less about a hit song. I think it's a job which sometimes I don't like and sometimes I like. When I don't enjoy it is when I know a song is not going to happen, spiritually or financially."

So what are the songs he wishes he had written? "Many. Most of the Beatles songs, even Procol Harum. Some classical, Middle Eastern, some P. Ramlee." If he has one thing about modern music to gripe about, Jackson is his target. "Michael's stuff is a rip-off. Just production." Music is music nonetheless. "Most writers have a sense of beauty and niceness although their lifestyles can be questionable," Nasir says. "It's a sense of simplicity._I started with a sense of poetry but I guess songwriting is a lesser poetry."

M. Nasir has always had strong folk appeal in his music and this is not without reason. "I believe all musicians must know the folk root. I feel it's the basis of music. I follow all the latest genres but I still love the blues and folk. Folk has become (he pauses)... not so ethnic. It's like (he pauses again)... James Last type music. What's the word for it?"

Hud Hud & Bonda Ubah Selera

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