Tempus fugit Ten years ago, a shy young man from Bulacan penned songs that won his band a major record deal and launched his recording career. Today, the young man has evolved into an internationally respected award-winning songwriter known as Clementine. Celebrating his ten-year anniversary as a recording artist, Clementine is finally stepping out from [...]
Tag: Jonathan Ong
As Long As The Song Goes On, Sea Horses by The Gentle Isolation
The Gentle Isolation (TGI) appears to have turned a corner with their latest single, a cover of “Sea Horses” by Blueboy. Despite their deceptively laissez-faire attitude towards gigging - hey, it's hard to commit when your lead guitar-man has gone AWOL - the band has been quietly making music, sight unseen. And if you listen [...]
Rainmakers: The Camerawalls Releases Wanderlust To Fund Disaster Relief
Indie pop band The Camerawalls is releasing its latest digital single -- "Wanderlust" -- today, August 8, in anticipation of their very first regional tour, dubbed "Wanderlust: The Camerawalls South-East Asian Backpack Tour," later this month. In an unprecedented move, the band will be donating seventy-five percent (75%) of the digital sales of the single for the months of August and September (roughly the duration of their tour) to aid victims of the recent floods in the Philippines, most especially the waterlogged capital of Metro Manila and its outlying areas.
Loud Concert, Quiet Anniversary
I'm still hungover over Club 8's visit to the Philippines even after weeks since the conclusion of the shows we co-produced plus the fact that Lilystars has already turned two years old last May. I cannot recall including concert production on a large scale as part of our plan of activities. Lilystars as I heard [...]
Single, Shmingles
(From the review section of PULP Magazine's November Issue #101 by music editor Jason Caballa) These days, when people speaks of singles, one would mean a song or track from a musical act's full length album that was chosen either by that particular act (or in most cases, their record label) to be played on [...]
The Idea Of Singles
I have yet to see or buy an actual CD Single. And for two reasons: One, I don't think the trend of releasing CD Singles ever became a solid format in the Philippines since it was introduced during the mid 1980's in western countries. I recall buying a number of cassette albums back in high [...]
