"If the cops saw a busker playing music on the street they would make us go away or even beat us. Busking used to be seen as just a kind of begging. It was a low-class, haram thing to do. If you played music on the street people would assume you were very poor, maybe homeless..."
I began to play music at my new cafe, and I noticed that the local kids here were really interested. We spent weeks hunting around in junk shops and markets for traditional musical instruments. We called our band 'Kome Anak Pahang.' It means; the son’s of the forest. That is a significant name, because so much of what the traditional Malay people need comes from the jungle...