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Aubrey Suwito is a Malaysian pianist, keyboardist, songwriter, arranger and producer. Aubrey Suwito started his musical journey at the age of 6 and has since written songs for various artists, most notably Gemilang for Jaclyn Victor which won multiple awards including the Asian Music Festival and Anugerah Juara Lagu. He was the musical director on Malaysian Idol. Aubrey also worked as musical director for the hit reality television talent search competition One in a Million. He is also the older brother of singer/songwriter Juwita Suwito. And he is a composer of Akademi Fantasia and Akademi Fantasi Indosiar theme song, namely Menuju Puncak.
While he was pursuing his business studies in an A-Level course in Methodist College Kuala Lumpur (MCKL), he was 'offered' an opportunity to work with a professional recording studio. He eventually got a job there and his career took off from then on. Aubrey has steadily worked towards perfecting his craft amidst his busy schedule.
Aubrey has had his share of taking on the more commercially viable paths in music and has had a hand in some arrangements for albums in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia. He is now co-director for Cranky Music Sdn Bhd.
Jazz has been a passion for Aubrey since 1992. As the keyboardist for a jazz outfit 'Face First', Aubrey has performed with the likes of vocalist Phil Perry and saxophone player Eric Marienthal during their performances in Kuala Lumpur.
One Busy Street features the likes of Gary Gideon, Shawn Kelly and Zahid Ahmad on drums, Andy Peterson and David Yee on Bass, Greg Lyons on the Saxophone, Hillary Ang and Fauzi Marzuki on the Guitar, Steve Thornton on Percussions, Mohar on the Malay Flute and Aubrey Suwito on the Piano.
The musicians who worked with him on the Christmas album were Nan Alias (guitar), Mohd Rafi (guitar), Andy Peterson (bass), Steve Thornton (percussion), John Thomas (drums), Eddie Wen (trumpet), Kevin Choo (saxophone) and Chow Ming (trombone). The recording also includes the musical vocal talents of Jaclyn Victor, Juwita Suwito and Russell Curtis.
There were no sponsors for the concert but Aubrey did receive support from Dream Centre for the venue of the concert and personnel, and 8TV, for staging and lighting. 'Christmas With Friends' was recorded live at Dream Centre in August 2010 and a CD was released on 20 Nov the same year.
Although it was a free concert, a freewill collection was taken at the end of the concert and to-date a total of RM39,000 has been disbursed to nine musicians who needed medical help.
Home was recorded and engineered by Sunil Kumar in Cranky Studio and mastered in Sterling Sound, New York.
According to Aubrey:
“In a country where ‘local’ and ‘foreign’ music have two distinct connotations, Home blurs the lines and redefines music as the universal language it has always set out to be"
“I believe my 'sound' is modern jazz with a twist of Malaysia. For example, on Kampong Boy, the melody is Malaysian-ish but the chords are based on the blues"
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