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A yearning for home


A yearning for home
Alena and her trusty sape. - Picture courtesy of Kenny Loh
Alena performing at the Colours of Ostrava Festival in 2019. - Picture courtesy of Tomas Parkan
NOTHING makes the heart yearn for home more than travel. When Alena Murang took the songs of the Dayak Kelabit and Kenyah to foreign lands around the world, her heart longed for the dense jungle, the rushing rapids, the longhouses, and the people of her ancestral home along the Baram River in Sarawak.
Alena usually performs alongside her bandmates – co-writer Joshua Maran who plays the guitar, Jonathan Wong who is also on guitar, bassist Herman Ramanado, and drummer Jimmy Chong. ....

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#Showbiz: A Bornean tapestry


#Showbiz: A Bornean tapestry
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Sape maestro Alena Murang, whose music video recently won a global award, dreams of bringing Borneo’s ethnic sounds to the world. – Pic courtesy of Alena Murang
DUBBED Malaysia s Sape Queen, Sarawakian Alena Murang did us proud by winning the Best Styling Award at the Buenos Aires Music Video Festival in Argentina last Dec 3.
The award, her biggest international win to date, was for the surreal music video of her song
Midang Midang. Its picturesque scenes were filmed in Sarawak s Bario highlands as well as Tusan beach in Miri. ....

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