Sunday, January 15, 2023

Chlara

 In A Different Light




Side A
True Colors
Hotel California
Stuck On You
Stay With Me
Hello

Side B
Jealous
Stay
Songbird
Truly Madly Deeply
Come Away With Me
Like I'm Gonna Lose You



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Acoustic Now



Side A
Say You Wont Let Go
Perfect
Marry Me
Everybody Wants To Rule The World
Love Yourself
The Nights

Side B
Come On Get Higher
ILYSB
Amazed
Slow Dancing In A Burning Room
Fresh Eyes
Goodbye



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Evo Sessions



Side A
This Love
Ocean Deep
Stay With Me
True Colours
Follow Me
Bliss

Side B
Love Me Tender
Wonderwall/Sorry
Wild World
When I Dream
Hotel California






Chlara Isobel Banawa Magtultol is a Filipina recording artist. She is best known for her song "You Complete Me". She was featured in evosound’s album Voices of Love together with the finest female vocals featuring Susan Wong, Olivia Ong, Julienne Taylor, Emi Fujita, Stacey Kent, Katie Melua, Chantal Chamberland with her version of Lionel Richie’s Stuck on You. She used to make covers of songs on Soundcloud and YouTube. Her first debut album is called "Unstoppable" featuring "Me Without You", "Take Care", and "Come Find Me".

British born Filipina singer-songwriter Chlara (born Chlara Isobel Magtultol) labeled as Philippines. Chlara grew up in England with her parents before moving to the Philippines at the age of nine. Her father Cesar died when Chlara was 2 years old and passed his love for music onto Chlara. Chlara began singing at the age of three and was influenced by the music at home played by her family. Her musical influences are Michael Jackson, Stevie Wonder, Air Supply, The Carpenters, Christina Aguilera, Whitney Houston and Celine Dion. After moving back to the Philippines, Chlara regularly joined the school singing programs and began playing the guitar at the age 11. Chlara writing her own songs before starting college.











Saturday, January 14, 2023

Ethnic Faces

New Wave 1986 - 1987 Recordings



Side A
Within Tribes
Back Home
Love
Golden Boy

Side B
Balikbayan
Clean Wholesome Fun
From Now On
Balikbayan



Ethnic Faces was a offshoot of two very bands - Ocean Zoo and Lost Boys- in the midst of the  punk scene of the early 80's. Playing new wave before anyone else ever did in concert right after frantic sets of punk bands Ethnic faces established its own set of followers. They were also the only foolish enough to play originals even when nobody ever heard of them before. Live lead singer Jack Sikat had been the perfect front man - painting his face, bringing a gong on stage , slamming with guitar player on stage and wearing his trademark salakot. the bands essence was a heavy mix of their new wave interest, Pinoy humor and political activism. their contemporaries include Ironic Trauma (founded by Teddy Diaz before he did the DAWN), College, led by Arnold Morales (who later formed Put3Ska), identity Crisis, Deans December ( led by Binky Lamapano) and other who got air play at XB 102.7 But there are people who only got who simply refuse to acknowledge

Ethnic Faces contribution to the music scene leaving them out of any historical accounts of Pinoy Music Still Ethnic Faces song are featured in various compilation album like Brave new world - live from 1984(love and within tribes )1986 subterrainia romance vol. 1 (with original version of Golden Boy ) 10 of another kind from 1989 ( balik bayan and another version of golden Boy) Dear Cory 1990 ( Brutal Scars) and LA Rock in 1995 (Parang Bowling)
Later the famed indie producer (and now LA 105 exec) Ed Formoso approached them to record a full length album for the first time in years. The result DEKADA in 1995. Manny Pagsuyuin also a formerly with Ironic Trauma and now a DJ (jimmy jam to DWLS-FM 97.1 listeners)
wrote in the album liners notes "The Faces were alternative long before it was called as such"
the Faces "comeback album of sorts showed the musicians side in their topmost form as there influences broadened with age leaning toward soul and acid jazz long before people started hailing the arrival of "retro fever" by silly covers bands. Philippine based American journalist David Gonzales praised the band musicianship in his review published at the Manila Times fascinated that a local band could be this adventurous ((suicidal I would say) He even noted the superb horn arrandgement mistaking it for the work of actual horn section ( he was shocked to find that the sound was coaxed out of the sound module as arranged by the band keyboardist)The problem was Jack heart wasn't in it any more. After years of playing and contributing to compilation for him the magic was gone and this was just one of the things that had to be done. It was unfortunate because these people are talented musicians who are in some way still respected by their peers even as younger musicians remain clueless.

Ethnic faces was gone as soon as they had come back they've paid for stubbornly refusing to give in to the pressures of mainstream appeal...and for always being way ahead of their time.
-pleasant things







Friday, January 13, 2023

Space-Ta with Tarsius

Space-Ta with Tarsius




Side A
You Look So Fuckin' Empty Without Me

Side B
You Look So Fuckin' Empty Without Me (acoustic ver)




Space-Ta is a time traveller-philanthropist-musician from 2032. From a world where the TIME COUNCIL have countlessly reformatted life as we know it, S-T moves back and forth in time to re-establish and reconnect erased music genres that were banned by the TC. 
Like graffiti rivals, S-T re-establishes the undone music by collaborating with past musicians to bring back what was lost.
The full story of ST will be told in a collection of comic strips sometime in the near future.
The single "You Look So F*ckin’ Empty Without Me" is a collaborative track between S-T and Tarsius @tarsiusmanila 
The 12” Vinyl format with its original iPhone freestyle “one take” recording on the B-side 
This is a project of S-T with Lockeddown Entertainment @lockeddownph






Dicta License

Pagbigkas





Side A

Bagong Bayani
Kasama
Salita
Sanayan Lang Ang Pagpatay
Inosenteng Bala
Posas

Side B
Elias
Diktador
Excerpt from "A Nation For Our Children"
HWFF
Pagpupugay
Kapangyarihan



Dicta License is a Filipino band formed December 1999, whose music is a fusion of rock, rap, and grunge. This band consists of Pochoy Labog on vocals, Bryan Makasiar on drums, Kelley Mangahas on bass, and Boogie Romero on guitars.

The band's name literally translates as "License to Speak," which can be aptly associated with the philosophical cum socio-political tone evident in their songs. The band's influences include Rage Against the Machine, Lauryn Hill, The Roots, Public Enemy, Incubus, and many others, with RATM being their strongest influence of all.

Their first big break happened in 2001 when Warner Music Philippines included their songs Duct Tape and Criminal in its compilation album, No Seat Affair, together with other than up-and-coming artists, Cog, DTS, Zooom, Six Digit and Euglito's Eye. In that same year, the band was invited to the Busan International Rock Festival in Korea, where they performed in front of a crowd of about 25,000.

In 2003, they released a 5-song EP which consisted of their original songs Burning Streets of Love and Hate, Criminal, Smoke Under the Table, Falling Earth and Undiscarded. Two years after, the band released their first album, Paghilom, under Warner Music Philippines released on September 21, 2005. It consisted of ten tracks with lyrics that explicitly address the Filipino youth with issues of socio-political concern. Their carrier single from this album, "Ang Ating Araw" was the most played song on NU 107 for the year 2005. On April 9, 2021, the band released their 2nd album "Pagbigkas" on digital release and a Limited Edition and numbered pressing Vinyl of the album was released on May 25, 2022.

Band recognitions include nominations from MTV Pilipinas Video Music Awards 2006 for Best Cinematography in a Video and Best Production Design in a Video for their song, "Complex." They've also had individual recognitions like in the NU 107 Rock Awards 2006, where Pochoy Labog was nominated for Vocalist of the Year and Best Male, and Boogie for Guitarist of the Year. The band was also nominated for the Rising Sun award.

Dicta License also collaborated with Urbandub to do the theme song for the 2006 MTV Music Summit for HIV/AIDS, which was held December 2006 at The Fort Open Grounds.

-wiki




Assembly Generals


Fatigue



Side A
Taro-san
Kulog
Anino
Ligaw
Nails
Roulette

Side B
Hands Off
Burn
Taya feat. BLKD
ABKD
Eve
Tilted Room





Assembly Generals
Based in: Metro Manila

Language(s): Tagalog, English

Style(s): Fusion, Conscious

Affiliation: Locked Down Entertainment

Members:

Switchtrik
Peaceful Gemini
Deng Garcia
Mon Punzalan
Jigger Davina
Ray Marasigan





Black Vomits, The

The Black Vomits





Side A
Screaming Popes
Love Song From Purgatory
Dead Verbs

Side B
Deranger
Psychonation
The Hunting Ground



The Black Vomits are Igan D’Bayan (bass), Bryan Escueta (guitar) Mark Contreras (vocals), and Julius Sanvictores (drums)

This vinyl record — their self-titled debut album — launched  May 20 2016 via the staging of a rock opera called The Gray Ground. At gigs, they would always stick out like an angry middle finger. One of them would like to think it’s because they’re always the best looking band on the lineup. To be honest, I think it’s the scowls on their faces and the music they make. Categorically, it’s post-punk rock. To a regular walk-in customer just looking to have two bottles or three on a Saturday night, it’s strange, moody and totally un-karaoke-able. The Black Vomits are permanent residents of the Gray Ground, that sliver of land where no boy band will ever set foot. And they’re putting that on record, rather literally, and staging an operetta to celebrate. Libations for everybody!
-Chonx Tibajia




Betrayed

Betrayed



Side A
Kids Will Unite
Caught In The Crossfire
Urban Assault
Hardcore Rules
Where Has Love Gone
Military Rule
Fught! Fight!
Betrayed By You
I Ain't Gonna Fight For You
Never Again

Side B
Never Meant To Be This Way
When I Met You
Roots Reggae
To Jamming
Punk Reigns
Urban Assault
Betrayed By You





The lead up to 1986 was tumultuous with the political upheaval that gripped the nation. 

The new year was barely a few days old when Filipino punk band Betrayed dropped their independently produced and self-titled album on cassette. Fans of the growing punk and underground scene already knew of Betrayed’s incendiary shows so there was some expectation.

“There were no venues for punk bands during those days,” recalled guitarist Buddy Trinidad, the band’s longest serving member. “All rock bands use to play at Shakey’s. We did our fair share of gigs at Shakey’s too. The only gigs we played were the ones organized by Tommy Tanchanco of Chaos.”


Word of Betrayed were spread by fans of the burgeoning underground punk scene or via Jingle magazine. As did the album’s cover that reprinted a racy cover of a tabloid that featured then sex kitten Vivian Velez.

“The album cover is an actual front page of the newspaper,” bared Trinidad “Manny (Pagsuyuin, the band’s drummer longest serving drummer who joined the band in 1984) came into practice one day and said 'Ito na 'yung album cover natin.'"

And that was that.

"Betrayed," the album, was more than a cosmetic attraction.

The cassette released under the band’s own DMZ Records featured on one side the old songs from the first local incarnation of Betrayed that featured vocalist Eddie Siojo, drummer David Reyes (who was replaced by Carl Avecilla in Christmas of 1983), bassist Chris Carire, and Trinidad.

The second side featured songs from its more well-known line-up of vocalist Dominic Gamboa (who went on to form Tropical Depression several years later), bassist Boyet Miguel from Ethnic Faces, Pagsuyuin, and Trinidad.


“I saw Domeng perform with his band Absolute Zero (with his former classmates from the Ateneo Grade School), and I thought they were pretty good,” said Trinidad. “When I met Eddie (at the University of the Philippines), he was totally into punk and introduced me to a lot of bands from New York City (where Eddie was from and where he formed an early version of Betrayed with American bandmates). “Domeng was more into punk bands from England. It didn’t matter where the bands were from. We were more interested in their sound that geographical location.” 

“I was always looking to play aggressive music I can sink myself into,” pointed out Eddie. “Betrayed, although rooted in punk rock, was a hardcore band from its inception.”

“In the summer of 1983, my classmate, David Reyes, and I started learning covers of the Clash, the Rolling Stones, the Romantics, the Rezillos, and the Sex Pistols to name a few,” shared Trinidad. “Then we met Eddie who told us that he could play bass for us. We started practicing and played our first gig as ‘Jump Boys.’ It was after that gig where we wanted to write our own music. Eddie presented us with the music of his band in New York that was called ’Betrayed.’ He said that if he wanted to play those songs, we should call ourselves, ‘Betrayed.’"

Trinidad and Reyes agreed and the band was formally born. 

After five months, Siojo decided to concentrate on singing so his fellow New Yorker Chris Carire came on board to play bass. Reyes moved to the United States in Christmas of 1983 and Avecilla stepped in to man the drum kit. 

The new punk band’s influences included the Sex Pistols, the Damned, the Clash, Stiff Little Fingers, the Jam, the Buzzcocks, Generation X, Minor Threat, Circle Jerks, Black Flag, Dead Boys, and the Ramones. 


Betrayed began plying the punk and hardcore circuit along with other bands who went on to released albums – Third World Chaos, Wuds, College, Sex Militants, and George Imbecile and the Idiots. 

“During the time we were recording the album, we were approached by the dad of Jack Sikat (of Ocean Zoo and Ethnic Faces) to be on his label (Insect Records),” elucidated Trinidad. “Tommy Tanchangco also approached us to be on Twisted Red Cross.”

Two songs from Betrayed -- “Urban Assault” and “Betrayed By You” -- appeared in the very first Twisted Red Cross release, "Rescue Ladders and Human Barricade," in 1985. But when the "Betrayed" album was done, the band chose to release it independently. 

“We were friends of both so as not to pick sides, we decided to put up our own label called it DMZ Records,” revealed Trinidad.

"Betrayed," the cassette, was sold in stores like Khumbmela, Apple Picker, and during the band’s live shows. The band also received their only radio airplay on DZRJ-FM (most notably during the show of the late disc jockey, Howlin’ Dave). 

The band put out its second album, "Betrayed Again," in 1996 on BMG Records with Siojo back for lead vocal duties (Trinidad took over the microphone in 2001). With their third album, "Why Must Everything Involve Politics?," the band returned to its independent roots.


“The music is from my ‘angry youth days,'” said businessman Arnie Sison who saw the band during the '80s. “The band and its music were very influential. And that cover kicks up a wave of nostalgia.”

Eric Guillermo, who published Jingle magazine back in the day and heavily championed the local music scene, said, “The Pinoy punk scene was extensively featured in Jingle. Betrayed, one of the forerunners of the genre, had loyal followers. Pinoy Rock groups had their glory decade of the 1970s so it was proper for a new breed of punk rockers to emerge in the languid local rock scene in the 1980s. Betrayed kept the rock and roll flames burning.”

-Rick Olivares