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Worth a Listen: Pinoy music artists that push boundaries in July 2024

The Pinoy music scene is undergoing a remarkable transformation, marked by a wave of innovation and artistic exploration. Recent developments showcase how Filipino artists are redefining their craft and pushing musical boundaries. From experimental sounds to fresh collaborations, these highlights reflect the dynamic evolution of Pinoy music and its rich creative landscape. SB19’s Groundbreaking…

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MOVIES I WATCHED THIS WEEK (#192):

TRANCES (1981) is an infectious documentary about the influential Moroccan avant-pop band 'Nass El Ghiwane'. It's like 'The last Waltz' but in Casablanca. A must for fans of traditional Arabic music.

This was the first film that Martin Scorsese restored when he launched his "World Cinema Foundation" in 2007. My 4th Moroccan film. A transcendental experience [with one caveat: They gave amazing concerts to large, ecstatic crowds - and not a single woman in the audience!] This is the 9th film from the Scorsese's list that I've seen. I must remember to come back to it very soon.

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(Another concert, but of a completely different kind: Andrea Bochelli's LOVE IN PORTOFINO. This is for the folks who like to sit in the square by the water when the evening falls, dressed in white cottons, sip white wine while eating fried clams or seafood pizza, while listening to Bochelli's frothy, sentimental baritone.)

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POOL OF LONDON (1951), my 5th drama-Noir from mostly-forgotten master Basil Dearden. Sailors on leave and a jewel heist, as well as a sensitive interracial romance, the first white and Jamaican relationship in British cinema. Crisp on-location scenes and good character development.

Next: His 'The League of Gentlemen'.

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I've developed an interest in the emerging sub-genre of 'Domestic Workers’, mostly movies from South America and Southeast Asia. Many of these are fantastic; 'Àma Gloria', 'The second mother', 'Lina from Lima', 'Roma', 'The maid', 'Ilo Ilo', 'The chambermaid', Etc.

But I did not expect for the documentary YAYA (2018) to emerge as the most touching of this week's movies. A young filmmaker in Hong Kong, Justin Cheung, turned the camera on his own family, to explore their relationship with the woman who took care of him the first 22 years of his life.

Philippine Au-pairs in Hong Kong are some of the most exploited and abused workers in the world. And while his helper-maid was not mistreated, she gave up her own life to take care of somebody else's kids. Recommended! 8/10.

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FELLINI X 2:

🍿 (I have no idea why I never seen this masterpiece.) LA STRADA (1954), is the sad and poignant story of simple-minded Giulietta Masina, who was sold to 'brutish strongman' Anthony Quinn for 10,000 lire. She's a mythic, Chaplinesque 'Fool' who's being abused and mistreated as she joins him traveling round the countryside in their little freak-show. Until she dies of a heartbreak. Its tragedy is accented by Nino Rosi's sentimental score. 8/10.

🍿 THE MAGIC HOUR (2008), my second screwball comedy [After 'Welcome back, Mr. McDonald'] by Kōki Mitani, "The Best Japanese Filmmaker You've Never Heard Of". A failed bit actor gets a job to play a mysterious hit man, not realizing that the movie he's starring in is going to be 'real'. It's a lighthearted meta-film about making a movie, not unlike 'Day for night', but set in some seaport gangster-land. It's like 'Casablanca' but with a Nino Rosi like score. Includes a cameo of director Kon Ichikawa, the last before his death.

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3 MORE BY KEN LOACH:

🍿 THE OLD OAK, the latest (and probably his very last film) from the 88-year-old socialist Brit. A warm and 'humane' story full of small and heartfelt emotions, it kept me in tears from opening to the end. Ordinary people who suffer in so many ways. The inhabitants of a decaying ex-mining town can barely manage to hang on, and now they have to deal with a group of Syrian refugees - "Foreigners!" - who had lost it all in the war, and are being repatriated to their midst. Loach's films are usually about working-class Brits who's been getting the shaft for generations, and sometimes retain their humanity. And so is this one. 9/10.

🍿 “First they called you a terrorist, they they called you a hero”.

11′09″01 SEPTEMBER 11 is an anthology film from 2002. Eleven filmmakers contributed each a segment of 11 minutes and 9 seconds with different perspectives on the World Trade Center attacks. Some of the productions were better than others. Ken Loach had a Chilean exile in London write a letter to the families of the victims with the story of the Chilean September 11 attack of democracy (1973/CIA/Kissinger/Pinochet). In the Iranian segment, a teacher in a refugee camp was trying unsuccessfully to tell her young pupils about the attack. A poor boy in Burkina Faso imagined that he saw Osama bin Ladin in the market, and that he can use the $25M reward money to help his dying mom. Claude Lelouch told of a deaf French woman who sits next to the TV, but misses the news because she can't hear it. A Bosnian woman goes to the scheduled demonstration about the Srebrenica massacre. Etc. A mixed bag.

🍿 TIME TO GO is his 1989 documentary, pushing for British withdrawal from Northern Ireland. I actually don't know more than the average laymen about Irish history, so I need to take a reading course about the "Troubles" and what brought it.

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Another first watch: TRAINSPOTTING (1996). There were half a dozen films which I avoided until now, because I felt, rightly or wrongly, that they are too distressing: 'Requiem for a dream', Lars von Trier's 'Melancholia' (actually, all his movies), 'Salò', 'Funny Games' (both versions), 'A Serbian film', 'Kids', Etc. But now that I crossed 'Come and see' off this list, I also took a stab at this disgusting Scottish Heroin-chic shite-storm. Now I can say that I saw it too.

Well, I like Kelly Macdonald, and didn't expect her debut in an under-aged sex scene... Another plus, an appropriate use for Lou Reed's 'A perfect day'.

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TIME PIECE, a terrific experimental 9-minute short by Jim Hanson which was nominated for an Oscar in 1965. A rhythmic masterpiece: "Help!" 8/10.

Extra: ROBOT (1963), another prophetic Hanson short, precursor to 'HAL9000'. I'm sure that both these films will be mentioned in his new bio-pic.

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2 EARLY FILMS BY LINDSAY ANDERSON:

🍿 THE WHITE BUS (1967) told of a a taciturn young woman without a name who takes a double-Decker bus tour in a city without a future to experience some bizarre scenes without any rhyme or reason. It includes some surrealistic flourishes (A sudden tableaux of 'Le Dejeuner sur l'Herbe', a fantasy about suicide, a long tour in the library where the pompous major keeps complaining about filthy books...). But what is the point of it all?

It was edited by Kevin Brownlow, and filmed by Miroslav Ondříček, But it will mostly be remembered as the film debut of one 30-year-old Anthony Hopkins, as a German Thespian reciting Brecht. 2/10.

🍿 O DREAMLAND (1953) is a macabre documentary short about a loud amusement park in Margate, Kent, and the multitudes of middle class patrons (and their many children) who visit it without much amusement in their eyes. It's melancholy and miserable and dour. 7/10. A fun Fair without the fun. (Screenshot Above).

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"This guy is a one-man crime wave!"

FOR HEAVEN’S SAKE (1926), one of Harold Lloyd's most successful films. Including some great chase and slapstick gags.

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The first time I saw DEREK DELGAUDIO's IN & OF ITSELF, I was blown away. The next 2 or 3 times I thought it was great. There's something that compelled me to return to this Magician-"Mentlist" installation piece again and again. But after 4 or 5 times, i realize what he's doing, and his shtick is not as polished as f. ex. Derren Brown's. Yes, he has a few numbers that looks fantastic (A random audience member picks a random letter from a pile, and opens it to read a personal letter from her dying father... The final sketch where he "knows" what secret cards did each and every member of the audience had picked), but for the rest, he's mostly manipulates us with shaggy anecdotes and tall tales of personal pains. And really, they are not as profound as he wants us to believe they are.

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Hiroshi Teshigahara's HOKUSAI is a 1953 documentary about the woodblock artist, but a bit too old fashioned. I recently saw his 'The face of another', and should have watched 'Woman in the dunes' instead.

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THE SUITCASE was episode 7 of 4th season of 'Mad Men', the exact middle of the series (46/92). I've seen it numerous times, and it's still one of the most emotionally gripping. Jon Hamm will never be as perfect as he was as Don Draper. And it's pretty amazing that he and Peggy Olsen never even kissed, let alone sleep together. 10/10. Re-watch ♻️. [*Female Director*]

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"If there's one thing about me, it's repetition"...

My first by British comedian Steward Lee, his latest LIVE AT THE LOWRY came recommended by Hoots maguire, so here I am. Lee is a different kind of a stand-up: Dry, self-referential, erudite, and circular. His improvisations are jazzy. Recommended.

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2 ALTERNATIVE-QUEER ANIMATIONS:

🍿 THE FINAL EXIT OF THE DISCIPLES OF ASCENSIA (2019) is a strange - and weird - story made by one young Jonni Peppers. It is done very much in the aesthetics, and spirit, of Don Hertzfeldt's 'World of Tomorrow', although it's far from being that coherent. A confused young woman joins an all-women UFO-cult, which, like the Heaven's Gate dudes, eventually "ascends". It doesn't really have a clear message, but it has quiet a few moments of beauty. Peppers is working with Victoria Vincent, whose film 'A dog that smokes weed' I've admired. The two songs she plays are very pretty. [*Female Director*]

🍿 HOW TO FIND LOVE IN AN UNBECOMING AGE, a first film by a young lesbian about hot dating today. Could become a series. 7/10. [*Female Director*]

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3 MORE SHORTS BY FEMALE DIRECTORS:

🍿 3 MINUTOS (1999), a short Brazilian masterpiece. The phone rings in a kitchen, and the answering machine picks it up. A woman's voice is telling him that she decided to leave. Recommended. 9/10.

[This is actually the second film by Ana Luíza Azevedo I've seen. She co-directed 'Barbosa' with Jorge Furtado.]

🍿 LIKE TWENTY IMPOSSIBLES, my first by Palestinian Annemarie Jacir. A small Palestinian film crew is trying to cross a border checkpoint, and is subject to humiliating abuse by the Israeli soldiers. There were other films about the exact topic, the grinding brutality, the hopeless struggle just to stay human - "The cruelty is the point". And this was made in 2003, before the whole occupied territories turned into the big concentration camp it is today.

I promised myself that I will stop watching these traumatic films, and I will. But surprise! When the credits rolled, it appeared that this horrible true-to-life documentary was actually "Fiction"! The ugly film was so realistic, that it was a huge relief to discover it was "Only Art". 8/10.

🍿 THE INCREDIBLE THEFT OF CELINE'S BELOVED (2020), a cute French love letter to Wes Anderson. A 14 year old girl receives a surprise package in the mail. It's as if girl herself directed this story. 6/10. [*3 Female Directors*]

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2 EARLY SHORTS BY RIAN JOHNSON:

🍿 I started watching his heist story 'The Brothers Bloom', but couldn't finish it. Maybe I'll do it next week. Meanwhile I tried -

In BEN BOYER AND THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF AUTOMOBILE MARKETING, the voice of Carl Jung approaches a guy taking a shit with an archetypal explanation through the air-filter vent. The topic? The subconscious meaning of car brand logos. Made for $99 in 2001. With Pink Floyd 'Atom Heart Mother' score.

🍿 In THE PSYCHOLOGY OF DREAM ANALYSIS (2003) a young woman dreams somebody else's dreams. A student film that feels like one. 2/10.

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(ALL MY FILM REVIEWS - HERE).

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Your Enchantix designs are so pretty! What were their inspirations design-wise?

Thank you! Most of them I had laying around for almost a year, so I can't be as exact with my inspirations as I usually am, sorry.

Layla's is entirely based on info I got from a fashion analysis video dissecting the costuming in Moana (I think it was Mina Le's), that got me thinking about plant based fabrics and dyes. I also had an earlier version that was my interpretation of the canon design, that I was heavily leaning on. I knew I wanted to keep the circlet/crown and amp up the vibrancy of the colours in her outfit. The fish-fin skirt-tail was a last minute addition, but I think it works well as a form of coherence between her Enchantix and Charmix. The style of her hair near her scalp in the original reminded me of twists, so I gave her full length gorgeous twists.

With Flora I tried to conserve the silhouette of her OG dress with the halter-top and frilly bottom. Her headdress and front panel&pattern on it are inspired by Balinese national dress and fabrics. Her wings on the other hand were inspired by the roo structure and decoration of temples in Thailand and the Philippines. Overall very ornate and gold heavy.

Bloom's Enchantix was the one longest in work. I knew I wanted the red and the puffy sleeves. Everything else was trial by fire and doesn't have any clear cultural influence other than "dragon in as many instances as possible" and channeling both warrior and princess vibes. The most difficult thing for me was to find pleasing shades of red and blue and get them to harmonise.

Tecna is another difficult one. I suppose "it just came to me" isn't a very good explanation. I wanted something avant-garde, techwear inspired and androgynous. For the mullet I was inspired by another winx artist whose name escapes me atm, who did those pastel-y Enchantix and Believix looks. They used a soft pink for Tecna's hair and made it super fluffy, which just got my gears grinding. The pink overjacket was added for extra pizzazz and to harmonise with their hair.

Musa's design combines Hanfu elements (the top) with armour elements (the hip guards) and athleisure (the purple top is a sports bra). I was also pushing for little note and music elements in the accessories. Her shoes are inspired by one's from a designer piece by Balmain if I remember correctly. (If I ever post the speedart, you'll see the direct ref pop up 😅) The wing is basically her OG Enchantix one.

And finally Stella is mainly medieval orrery inspired. The little astrological map pattern was kind of the main piece there. I also immensely enjoyed the Heavenly Bodies Met Gala and surrounding art and styling boom that featured a lot of those spiky crowns. Her shoes are rave/festival wear inspired.

I started really managing my inspo boards, so hopefully in the future I can be more precise answering these kinds of asks

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Ceaseman Seizing the Hip hop Scene

The time I spent going to places and meeting people is now the time I devote to binge eating, watching TV series, attending free webinars, and listening to music. I’ve been learning a lot more about our homeland and its people these days. Our rich history shows how much potential Filipinos have, but it’s such a waste that we’re taking that for granted.

We’re a melting pot of talents, and I can’t help but feel disappointed sometimes. Did you know that the first few countries in South East Asia to produce feature films include the Philippines? Oh, and we were the bomb in the industry! Did you know that there was a time when Filipinos were thought to be the best dancers in South East Asia? That we’re considered to be great singers? Oh, and did you know that the Philippines had the first hip hop scene in Asia? 

You read that right, the Philippines is sort of a hip hop pioneer in Asia. Currently, we associate hip hop with streetwear, graffiti, MCing, flip top, break dancing, YOLO, swag, and of course, rap music. It’s not always easy to the ears, unlike pop music. It’s deemed to be childish or immature sometimes. But it’s unapologetic, and it continues to impregnate new subsections like trap, lo-fi, drill, and many others. The scene itself is ever-evolving, and so are its artists. Our rappers are collaborating with musicians from other genres and artists of different forms- they are making bigger ripples in the industry or at least in their respective communities. One of these evolving and striving hip hop artists is Ceaseman.

THE ARTIST

Ceaseman is a 26 y/o rapper with a lot of titles under his belt. He recently released an album with 31 tracks, and it doesn’t seem like he’s slowing down any time soon.

The subliminal rapper is a member of the hip hop group Kaustik Route. Apart from that, he’s also a film writer/director. Ceaseman is the founder of PFK Collective, the drummer of a surf rock band called The Chingks, and he also represents GSIDE Records, RESBAK, INGAY LIKHA, and The Toymaker Productions. 

Life wasn’t exactly kind to Ceaseman. He’s a first-born child in a very conservative family and was expected to carry the responsibility as the breadwinner. But his father went missing, he was detained and eventually had to drop out. He has gone through failures after severing ties with his band back then in hopes of forming a new one among the many other misfortunes that happened in his life. He has seen and experienced a kind of world, not many people his age would have seen, and it’s evident in his compositions.

The variety of life’s horrors, pleasures, and rewards in his music reflects his life as an artist, as a Filipino, and as a man trying to live his life to its fullest. His comrades, Filipino arts and music scene made him feel the need to give everything he’s got to his craft and dreams.

Ceaseman sees himself as a “revolutionary artist” hoping to send messages through film and his music. He also believes that “that ignorance is a choice in the age of information and technology, “ so it’s expected that most of his songs tackle certain social issues that are particular in the Philippines. His bars aren’t always black and white. The lyrics would seem like provoking you to see different perspectives, which would sometimes require you to listen to it a couple more times.

What’s really amusing is his versatility as a musician. Before he became a rapper, he was first a drummer for a post-hardcore band. He also plays melodica as well as other percussion instruments. Ceaseman definitely has the ears for the beats. His skill for weaving words together developed from being an emcee, which requires someone to be quick-witted, interactive, and creative. Bring his musical inclination, life experiences, critical thinking, collaborative mindset, passion for the arts together with his wordplay and you got a recipe for a good hip hop artist.

THE ALBUM

On the 30th of October this year, Ceaseman released an album entitled “Carpe Omnia” which is currently available on Spotify, Youtube, Amazon, Itunes, Medianet, Tiktok, and other major music stores.

The title means “seize it all” following the theme of its precedent, “Carpe Deym” (carpe diem), which is the Latin translation for “seize the day.” The recently released album has 30 songs with a hidden track only available on the physical copy. The bonus track is in collaboration with two distinct figures in the hip hop scene and was recorded in Tondo, Manila.

Carpe Omnia will definitely take you on a ride with its variety of hip hop subsections. The jazz and lo-fi flavors, as well as the forgotten Tagalog words like ruweda (wheel), galugad (scouring for something), and bagwis (feathers), made the album refreshing and interesting. 

Ceaseman said that he wanted to overwhelm the hip hop community and hype up his comrades by releasing this many songs. It’s like a compensation to his 3-year hiatus, which he spent playing as a drummer for Roots and flowers and The Chingks.

“So technically, Carpe Omnia is 3 albums in one for the three years that I should have released a single album per year.“ 

Among the many songs in the album, Ceaseman particularly likes Bon Vivant, Onis, Avant Garde Bagwis sa Hawla, and the hidden track. I personally loved Bagwis sa Hawla, which I think is the most personal. This sounded like a narration of his life when he was just deciding to pursue his passion, choose himself, and leave their home to take a chance- like the story of most artists who have a family member that doesn’t believe in their passion or dreams. The other songs I keep playing on repeat are Para-paraan, G, J. Crapola, and Ruweda.

THE FUTURE

Despite the pandemic, Ceaseman is planning to release yet another album early next year, which he will be entitling “Carpe Vitam” or “seize the life.” 

Ceaseman said that he still has 4 albums worth of content in his creative bank, so there are definitely many possibilities for this young artist. He’s hoping to collaborate more with other artists, especially those that have greatly influenced his music. 

It seems like Ceaseman is already claiming 2021 to be his year as he’s planning to do an album tour for Carpe Omnia, and release music videos and a new single along with his comrades from the PFK Collective. Supporters should also expect live hip hop sets with a band real soon.

Even if we don't want to admit it, the standard has always been the Western's in the music industry. With the scope of their influence and the history we've shared with them, we sometimes can't help but work on their shadows. As much as we want to be proud to be Filipinos, to be an independent nation with a culture and history of our own, we can't seem to detach ourselves from the colonial influence. But artists like Ceaseman, who seemed to want to desperately get out of the mold and share as much of himself in his craft, is what's making the Pinoy hip hop scene really ours. Artists like him who strive in their respective fields, though sometimes shunned by their kin or fellow Filipinos, are the very people that are saving the Filipino creative industry. They make it feel as if it's not hopeless at all.

Hip hop is unapologetic, is critical of itself, is flexible, and is resilient- much like us, Filipinos. Pinoy hip hop may not fit the masses' interest like how western hip hop does- it may not be as dominating as K-pop. Still, there are definitely many Filipinos who are passionate about it and have the talent to pursue it. We just got to acknowledge that potential, really see them, and support them. And guess what? We don't need to do much. 

We just have to listen and let the beat flow.

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i think it’s interesting how my music taste has evolved throughout the years.. when i first got into music as a teenager, i was into anime music cause i watched a lot of anime growing up. i even downloaded all anime music from gendou(dot)com!

then when i hit year 5, i got into Pop because it was big then and everyone was listening to Avril Lavigne, MCR, FOB, etc. i was also into Britney Spears then, so i was into Pop and pop rock. so I was into both anime or j-pop, j-rock music and pop music

then when i hit 2nd year high school, i listened to a little bit of k-pop casually but i was not a full fan. it was just because k-pop was played on the radio in the Philippines. but yeah from that point on to senior year, i became even more invested in Pop music like Katy Perry, Lady Gaga, Taylor Swift, Rihanna.. like that’s when i got into stan culture. i did get into Indie Pop towards graduation like Lana Del Rey, Florence & The Machine, etc. and this continued until I migrated to London UK.

then during studies in sixth form, i became a pop culture enthusiast.. it was insane cause I literally was into celebrity culture and met fave artists and got a selfie with them like Selena Gomez, One Direction, Taylor, etc. omg i was so obsessed it’s embarrassing! anyway glad we’re past that. but as I was about to finish sixth form, I started getting into experimental/avant garde genres of music like Björk then this continued until I migrated to Vancouver BC, where I am now

during my time in community college, i was into INDIE. literally i was an indie head but i still listened to pop music. but i was like a Pitchfork reader and listened to every Best New Music album. it’s how I also got into Sufjan Stevens, FKA Twigs, Bon Iver, Mitski, etc. i also got into Hip Hop cause Pitchfork respects Hip Hop. and i also got into anime music again after I went back to watching anime! i also got into Love Live! so i downloaded all their albums and was so into LLSIF and this continued until I finished my time there

and something unexpected happened! during the summer in between transferring from Community college to UBC, where i now study.. LOONA happened and i got into K-pop! but i was in denial then cause I thought it was only gonna be LOONA. *baby i’m fool* i got into more K-pop groups like NCT, EXO, TWICE (can you believe i was a hater of TWICE then and now fully stan them), SUNMI, etc. i still listen to the artists I love when they release something new but yeah i mostly was listening to K-pop

and now recently… i got into K-hip hop. i’ve been listening to GIRIBOY and DPR Live non-stop and i am planning to listen to more from the genre.

but yeah, interesting how my music interest has evolved and changed! i really just listen to music when I am in the mood to listen to it. i’ve never boxed myself into being a fan of one specific genre.

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“Correspondence with Erik Satie 5”

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All the arts aspire to the action of music,” wrote Walter Pater. “Over the aftermost 200 years, one can see a bit-by-bit about-face against the acclivity of color, bandage and anatomy over absolutely aesthetic elements, culminating in abounding abstraction. This is the aspiration of art toward  the action of music,” explained Roger Misson.

The backward Lee Aguinaldo, one remembers, was a applesauce enthusiast, as the American artists Jackson Pollock and Stuart Davis were—and alike some artists from the present bearing are committed vinyl or CD collectors of best and classical music. Amid these bandage of agreeable artists is abstractionist Edwin Wilwayco, who is  assuming his latest works, beneath the aggregate appellation of “Correspondence with Satie.”

The appearance at   Galerie Roberto, may alike be timely, admitting a belated altogether allowance for the composer, as his 150th bearing ceremony had aloof been acclaimed in 2016.

Satie, of course, is Eric Satie, the aberrant French artisan and pianist, (1866-1925), admired as a “torch-bearer of the avant garde,” counting amid his friends, Brancusi, Duchamp and Man Ray. In one avant-garde affected allotment blue-blooded “Parade,” Satie formed with Picasso (sets and costumes), biographer Jean Cocteau, and Serge Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes. He was hailed by adolescent composers Debussy, Ravel and Poulenc. Undeniably, Satie’s best acclaimed works are the three piano compositions, “Gymnopedies,” now a “pop classic.” The aberrant appellation is authentic as “a nude dance, accompanied by song, which active Spartan maidens danced on specific occasions.” By apprenticeship of Satie, they are to

be played “painfully” (douloureux), acutely (triste) and “gravely” (grave).

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Bold, bristling, brazen

Wilwayco’s works are annihilation but “atmospheric”—they are in actuality bold,  bristling and audacious as aesthetic creations, annihilation ambient about them, alike aggressive to absorb all the oxygen in the room. They are accordingly not to be taken as beheld equivalences, transliterations or interpretations of the music of Satie.

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Where Wilwayco is different is that he is the distinct Filipino abstractionist who has systematically approved his afflatus aural the music accommodation of Bach, Vivaldi and Shubert, as able-bodied as the symphonic halls of Brahms and Dvorak.

More impressively, Wilwayco has created a anatomy of works which was presented in consecutive exhibitions. The artisan has been analytical in the faculty that he immerses himself in the ineffable avidity and affection of a accurate composer’s agreeable oeuvre. This he has done with Satie, for which acumen Wilwayco’s  absorption continues to flourish. Music to this artisan is a stimulant, a delectation, a provocation, through which Wilwayco avoids painting himself into a corner, as it were, admitting what some anxious abode may abuse as an alarming prolificacy. If abundance is a curse, again it charge be a best acceptable one.

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Conversation

Holding a “conversation” or “correspondence” with addition artist—whether of visual, agreeable or choreographic persuasion—is not antithetical to advantageous tributes or admiration to the  artist.

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And with Satie: What has Wilwayco wrought? From this artist, whose assignment we accept accurate aback way aback in the ’80s, we accept consistently accepted the affluence and affluence of gestural painting, with its carnal aberration in the matiere of acrylic itself.

Wilwayco has gone from backbone to strength, his works charged, at times by a balance and adornment that dared to adventure into extravagance, in an accelerating acme of exhibitionist “arias.”

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But the beheld angle is consistently sustained, the astriction amid lyricism and turbulence alarmingly balanced, for such is Wilwayco’s allowance for alignment of bright and accessory passages, that assume antagonistic and in ataxia at aboriginal glance, ungovernable, but aloft added aseptic gazing at the works, acknowledge themselves to be independent and composed, in accordance with the artist, as admitting conducting, with a paintbrush as a baton. –CONTRIBUTED

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Hello! I am here eating all the banh mi that i can eat and I am performing this friday at the Den for HA!noise experimental music event. My very first time in Hanoi performing with: -Darsombra(USA) - Epic Dronescapes -Joee & I(Philippines) - Avant Pop Electronica -Luke Morse - Music from Brainwaves -Madelash(Hanoi) -Unknown Modulating Numbers of Wonders -Diaphragmatic(USA)- Workers Harsh Noise -Numbf• • •t & Dao Anh Khanh (Hanoi)- Unstructured Music and Kung-Fu Dance 8pm DeN 49 Làng Yên Phụ, Yên Phụ, Tây Hồ, Hà Nội 100k (includes FREE drink!) https://www.instagram.com/p/BnnkGjSghcR/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=hkulpaa8ys59

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BuwanBuwan Collective is providing a playground for Filipino producers

Appropriately named after a traditional Filipino kids game, BuwanBuwan Collective aims to be the playground for all those bedroom producers that don’t fit into the commercial standards of electronic music in Manila. Comprised of nearly twenty young producers and DJs, thanks to their perseverance they have built a self-sustained musical scene where they produce their own events and release their own music while encouraging others to do the same. MusicMap contacted co-founder similarobjects, who will participate in this year’s Red Bull Music Academy, to find out a bit more about the difficulties faced by musicians in the Philippines and top tips for music lovers visiting the area.

Anino by U-pistol x similarobjects

Your collective is named after a traditional Filipino game enacting the lunar eclipse and you match your releases with the lunar calendar. Are moon cycles an important feature of popular culture in Philippines or is it just a personal fascination?

To be honest I think more than anything it’s my personal fondness with Astrology, Esotericism, Occult, Shamanism and all things New Age that bleeds into the various facets of the collective. Not a lot of people around here really pay attention to these things but I like inserting bits and pieces of myself in my projects.

Describe where you live in ten words or less.

A cultural melting pot that pushes its inhabitants towards boiling point.

How did the idea of forming BuwanBuwan come up?

BuwanBuwan Collective was born out of the need to create context for our own content. We were always an odd-fit for Manila’s EDM top-40 DJs / club culture as well as the band-centric venues. So we got together to create both a platform and a playground for all the bedroom musicians and beatmakers to feel at home at, from then on we’ve been organising and putting together our own shows and it just made sense to naturally progress into releasing music as a label. We try to be free and play by our own rules whilst shining the spotlight on the whole community in the process.

When did you start making your own music and what was it like to begin with?

I started making my own music back when my ideas started to alienate my band mates. It was starting to build up a curiosity in me regarding what music I could be making if I was free from the expectations and the voices of other people. It was really tough having to wrestle with a lot of self-doubt and external criticism from so many people but I’m glad I never gave up on the vision. It was all worth it in the end.

What equipment do you use now?

I still use a laptop, Ableton Live, a bunch of samplers, drum machines and synths together with Ableton Push 2.

What sort of music were you exposed to when you were growing up?

I was exposed to a wide range of things from classical music to R&B, pop, hip-hop, electronic music, ambient and jazz.

Could you briefly introduce the BuwanBuwan family to MusicMap’s readers?

BuwanBuwan Collective is a group of electronic musicians and DJ’s from Manila in love with various styles of electronic music ranging from ambient, idm, avant-garde, glitch, abstract, hiphop, lo-fi, trap and various intersections of everything across the spectrum. There’s quite a lot of us to name but if you would like to know here’s a list: akisuda, LUSTBASS, THE BGNR, pillowtalk, ay_n, James Ussher, Ize!, Snow Fox Apprentice, thisbeing_, likeanimals, nights of rizal, nick payumo, Tisha, Bin5, JLVL, escuri, Justo, ahju$$i, lui., spaaawn and similarobjects.

What are the biggest challenges faced by musicians in the Philippines?

The market here is widely and mostly commercial so we struggle to find people that would naturally open up to the music we make since the majority of what we do isn’t the most accessible. Most of the time it feels like an uphill battle because there’s a lot trying and failing in the process but what we’ve learned is to just be patient and stick to our guns and focus on the few that actually resonate with what we do. We still generally find ourselves being an odd fit in certain cases but over the years we’ve managed to develop a niche crowd/market and we’ve just been trying to focus on the music we make and the platforms we’re building to allow more of this to exist and thrive.

What are the top things you’d suggest music fans visiting your region should go and see/do/eat/drink?

I believe Philippines has a very rich scene and there’s definitely a lot to explore and do here. I’d suggest checking out the beaches, the mountains and the mangoes!

Food recommendations: Adobo, Sisig, Sinigang, Bicol express, Bulalo.

Music venue recommendations: XX XX, 2020, Mow’s, Route 196, Dulo MNL, TodayxFuture and CATCH272.

Can you send us a photo of the view from your window?

Picture by Inez Moro

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MANILA, Philippines - “I honestly haven’t heard anything like this before,” Polaris Project’s Sam Gonzales said. She was talking about why a crowd of mismatched individuals had gathered at Mow’s Bar last April 15 to see a quirky band perform. The band she was referring to is called Dissonänce, and in their own way, they’ve created unity among different people, as seen through their steady rise in the local music scene.

For the third installation of Polaris Project’s Crowdfunding sessions, they placed the spotlight on a band that’s on the rise and has every right to be. “So far we’ve backed bands that are metal/hard rock (Imelda), post-rock (Sound Architects), and avant-garde (Dissonänce), which we know are harder sells as genres in the local industry, but we believe good music needs to be heard and sometimes there are gems in the lesser-known corners of the community,” Gonzales explained.

“Dissonänce is not afraid to go into the far corners of the universe sonically,” Gonzales said. “They describe themselves as producers of ‘ritual music,’ and you can’t really argue with that. They have music that goes from jazz to hard rock to metal to parseltongue, which sounds really weird on paper but it really is extraordinary in practice.”

The band itself didn’t disappoint. They even totally changed up the arrangements of their songs for the event. “I was hoping there would be a mosh pit,” enigmatic vocalist Dana Blaze explained, “but didn’t really expect some people to do a wall of death, which was fun.”

They left the crowd longing for more, as though the band hadn’t just murdered it onstage. It won’t be the last time the scene hears from them, though. When asked what to expect from the band, Blaze replied nonchalantly: “Oh, expect indie pop music.” Surfer music with a post-metal ukulele sound, perhaps? “Exactly,” she agreed, adding: “Beach vibes, you know?”

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031217 | … and the best dressed award goes to: dressing up in relation to impressing the male species, victim blaming and rape culture

The mere fact that what the victim was wearing is always taken as a causal factor to rape is problematic. The mere fact that women are taught not to wear “too provocative” clothes because men have “natural urges” is really absurd. The mere fact that women needs to constantly adjust themselves from their environment when the problem was the ones who couldn’t keep their hands to themselves is unjustified.

My favorite fashion designer, the late legend Oscar de la Renta once said that we should “Walk as if three men are walking behind you”. Whatever he means by that, I think the quote could be wildly misinterpreted into a hundred different connotations but will leave a single implication: that confidence and self-esteem is gained from the so-called spectators. I am short, round and the only average sized about me is my shoe size. Still, that didn’t stop me to dress however I wanted, buy pretty clothes that I know would flatter me at the same time never compromising style. I was complimented countless of times on how I carry myself, from my personal fashion sense to my postura walk. From the things I’ve said, I pretty much implied that I dress for my own novelty and interest, not because I intend to impress anyone. So yeah, I’m sorry Mr. de la Renta, I love you so much, but I beg to disagree.

“.... I dress for my own novelty and interest, not because I intend to impress anyone.”

Contrary to the title (and in Mr. de la Renta’s defense), the quote doesn’t really directly relate to victim blaming and rape culture, no, but what this quote meant for me is somehow a reminiscent of the realities a lot of women face everyday. Just last Thursday, I decided to wear one of my favorite skirts I own, an H&M bejeweled navy pencil skirt. To balance its fanciness, I matched it with my oversized white v-neck shirt and matching navy sneakers. Boy, do I look real good, knowing I’m all dressed up in such a pretty skirt. That alone made me feel good.

Now here’s the kind of tricky part: I ride a public jeepney to and fro and wearing skirts on such a cramped seating is basically the bane of my existence (re: round size. Ever heard of chub rubs? Ugh). So there, I sat, did my usual business of listening to music, forming my own K-Pop bubble around me when I noticed a flash going off in front of me. The culprit: a red phone that is weirdly, strategically faced across my legs. Now, I’m not the aggressive type or the kind of person who posts rage rants about experiences like this. Don’t get me wrong, a lot of posts like that are really creepy and I’m glad that people are getting extra vigilant but sometimes, it could get out of hand, like wrongly accusing someone of sexual harassment. Back to the damn flash, I immediately looked up and gave a dirty eye to the guy in front of me. Of course it’s intrusive, but whatever he just did, either the flash of his phone accidentally went off or, heaven forbid, he just took a photo of my legs (which is not even skinny or long, I mean, it’s still wrong, but, yeah, what the actual fuck), I gave him the benefit of a doubt even if he never acknowledged it nor excused himself for letting his phone’s flash go off and minded my own business again.

Hours later, when all that jeepney fiasco was long forgotten, me and my friends were going out of the library when we passed a table of college juniors (I knew because one of them is familiar) and one of them allegedly uttered “San Christmas Party?” (the jab means being tad overdressed on an occasion or place, often derogatory when used). Me and my friends laughed it off but we also got kind of pissed because we never really knew that guy personally and, to be brutally honest, in his ratty underclassman uniform, he is in no place to judge. Honey, don’t talk shit about my style, he’s lucky I’m not the one who heard that or I’ll look at him from head to toe and make him know I don’t like what I’m seeing.

These two scenarios are just a glimpse of much worse situations women could experience on a daily basis. See, we can never really get it right on the eyes of some men, not that we are trying to, but they make it know that we definitely should. People are so quick to judge, so quick to make criticisms that in the luxury of putting their self-righteous two cents on a situation, they forget that their opinions don’t actually matter. Bonus points if they get mad that their comments are ignored, oh how fickle minded ye irrelevant men then.

“... if the woman is comfortable in her own skin and she likes what she sees in front of the mirror, her perception of herself is the only thing that matters.”

Now here’s a better Oscar de la Renta quote to back me up with my point: "When I started, the woman went to the store to buy a dress. She saw it in pink and red, and then she remembered that the husband, who is probably going to pay for the dress, loves it in pink. So she buys the pink. Today, the same woman goes to the store and remembers the husband likes pink, and she buys the red." That’s what I’m trying to say, that over the years, women are finally putting themselves first. No more retro housewife vibes, despite how I adore the glam. For so long, a lot of us women ask for affirmation, there was a neurotic need for acceptance and keeping up with what’s “fitting” and “proper” and “lady-like”. Decades have past, women finally “got ideas” and broke down all the norm. Women can become feminine or edgy or androgynous or avant garde and no one should bat an eye because if the woman is comfortable in her own skin and she likes what she sees in front of the mirror, her perception of herself is the only thing that matters. So I’m sorry I’m not sorry, junior guy, but we never really asked for your opinion.

What’s good about that issue is that it’s getting resolved as time goes by but there are still problems we often face, and wherever women are, they experience a version of these horror stories every single day. Back to the jeepney ride story above, if I’d react hostilely, people would be too quick to notice the skirt I’m wearing, that I shouldn’t have worn it in the first place, that I should sit properly because I did and only then they would probably judge me for accusing a man of harassment without any proof. On the positive note though, the people might back me up but it can be too far fetched: the ugly truth here in the country is that the victim is often blamed and shunned, they are often accused of hogging attention and will be advised to keep their mouths shut and clothes not too provocative.

Now don’t tell me rape culture doesn’t exist here in the Philippines. Just take the recent news about death penalty. As much as I don’t want to be more political on an already political post, I think this is the timely example on how flawed the justice system is when dealing with an equally alarming social issue. Rape was eliminated from the criminal cases that would receive a death penalty when proven. First, what the fuck. Second, what the actual fuck? Seriously, if my opinion is relevant, honestly, the whole death penalty issue is still ambivalent for me (I’m pro-choice, mind you, but the fact that a lot of innocent people could be wrongly penalized scares me) but when rape charges became only secondary, if “not as grave”, to drug related crimes, that’s when I further realized how fucked up the whole bill is. As what I’m saying, it’s a sad fact that rape is taken too lightly, not only by the people, men and women alike, but also in the eyes of those who are in power. Filipinos are too quick to point their fingers on the victim. As if the victim wanted to be harassed, as if the victim was asking for it.

Now you were asking what the fuck am I blabbering about, how my assumed unconsented picture relates to rape culture? The mere fact that what the victim was wearing is always taken as a causal factor to rape is problematic. The mere fact that women are taught not to wear “too provocative” clothes because men have “natural urges” is really absurd. The mere fact that women needs to constantly adjust themselves from their environment when the problem was the ones who couldn’t keep their hands to themselves is unjustified. The mere fact that I was afraid to voice out my complaints because of judgments and blaming if I do so along with the doubts of being actually harassed under my nose are some of the indications of how awful the rape culture is in here: you resort to self-silencing because you don’t want the issue to get out of hand because, again, you were aware of the consequences, consequences that would only take you at the disadvantage than the other person instead of justifying and defending yourself as you should. And that’s fucked up. My situations could be deemed as minor and I don’t want to fuss all over it (writing a lengthy essay is enough haha) but to those who actually gets harassed, physically and verbally, voicing out what you feel might be really hard but to hell with close minded people: stand up for yourself, punch the guy if you have to and slay that fucker.

In conclusion, would these experiences hinder me to dress myself however I liked? Hell no. I already had the conviction that I dress up because for the simplest fact that I wanted to so I got it at bay. As for the potential harassment, I think next time, I will be geared with a better judgment formation. I think it’s … kind of good that I didn’t freak out that moment in the jeepney just because of a mere flash and I don’t have a concrete proof anyway (and, again, in the man’s defense, he never really looked at me creepily the whole ride, I don’t know, maybe, see I’m still doubtful). But push my buttons, I tell you, I’ll wreck havoc and whoever fucker will try to cross me will regret so, even if I’m in my Sunday’s best.