Meet the man on a mission to revive Malaysia’s indie music spirit

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Ahmad Faris was still a teenager when he began chasing the music that once defined Malaysia’s cultural heartbeat.Growing up in suburban Kuala Lumpur, he would listen in awe as his parents reminisced about the electric performances of local icons like the Alleycats and Sudirman Arshad. Those were the days, they told him, when music wasn’t just heard – it was lived.Few moments captured that spirit more vividly than Sudirman’s 1986 legendary Chow Kit Road concert, where more than 100,000 people...