23-04-2025
Alena Murang's latest single ‘Borneo Rain' out in time for Mother Earth Day
Alena says through her latest single, she aims to bring listeners back to the rainforest, showing that rain is not something to avoid but something that gives life to everything around us.
KUCHING (April 23): Singer-songwriter and sape player Alena Murang has released her latest single, 'Borneo Rain' just in time for International Mother Earth Day.
The song, now streaming on all major listening platforms, is sung in the Kelabit language, an endangered language spoken by fewer than 6,000 people from the highlands of Sarawak.
Alongside it, Alena has also released the Malay and instrumental versions of 'Borneo Rain'.
'I aim to bring listeners back to the rainforest, showing that rain is not something to avoid but something that gives life to everything around us.
'Borneo Rain is a song that celebrates rain as a blessing – for the land, and in turn, for all of us.
'Growing up, I have learned through songs and stories from my elders that the rain isn't troublesome weather, but it's necessary for life.
'When the rain falls, it nourishes the earth, and that's something to be grateful for,' she said in a promotional release.
According to Alena, Borneo is one of the wettest places on Earth, and home to some of the oldest tropical rainforests in the world.
'With this song, I hope listeners would feel both joy and a quiet sense of peace – the kind of calm we often find when we're truly immersed in nature.'
The music video visualiser, released on Monday, features Alena wearing a 'Samit' — a traditional raincoat worn in the Kelabit Highlands, made from palm leaves and stitched by hand with bark cloth or pineapple fibre.
The music video can be watched on YouTube. Alena Murang entertainment lead music rainforest
