Showing posts with label Musical Consumption. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Musical Consumption. Show all posts

December 28, 2014

Prepare to be mesmerized with Love Supreme by MilesExperience

I discovered this track on Soundcloud through Maude (MilesExperience vocalist Miles Bondoc plays guitar for Maude). I didn't expect to get hooked. I think I listened to this song 5 times the first night I heard it.




If sex was transformed into a song, this song would be it. The overall sound alternates between tenderness and roughness all while being dreamy but always hauntingly sexy. In contrast, the lyrics betray a certain romantic naivete, uncertainty and vulnerability - emotions that come across through Miles Bondoc's smooth vocals and makes you fall even harder for this song.



The Boys of MilesExperience: Justin Teano, Timothy Dadivas, Miles Bondoc, Ian Diaz and Guido Hizon
photo from MilesExperience facebook page
The band members are:

Miles Bondoc - Vocals, Guitar 
Justin Teano - Guitar 
Ian Diaz - Bass 
Guido Hizon - Keyboard
Timothy Dadivas - Drums

Check the guys out on facebook: http://www.facebook.com/milesexperience
They also mentioned an album release in 2015.

November 20, 2014

A Spur of the Moment Project Presents: Ambedo featuring Tide/Edit, Earthmover, Pulso, Soju, Tom's Story at Route 196

Tide/Edit, Earthmover and Pulso in one event at Route 196. On the one Friday that I have to go home early. :(

photo taken from Tide/Edit's FB Page. Poster design by Clarence Garcia

October 10, 2014

My Love Affair with Tide/Edit

It all started with a break-up.

 Everyone said the first thing you should do is to go back to who you were before the relationship happened. It was so hard to remember who I was after being with someone for six years that the only thing that stood out for me was this - I was someone who loved music. It's rare for me to find music I can have a love affair with, but when I do, I fall hard. I'd play one album for months on end that my siblings would start to hate me. I'd buy CD's of bands I liked and go to their concerts/gigs. I even went as far as pursuing radio for a while to feed my musical inclinations. But that was then and I felt I was so far removed from who I used to be that I couldn't appreciate music the same way I used to. 

 In an effort to keep me busy, a friend invited me to go to Fête de la Musique at her friend's bar which will feature an Indie line up for the night. I'm more of a rock/alternative/pop kind of girl so I went not knowing what to expect. When we got there, the place was packed with people. Good music filled up all the empty spaces left in between. It was love at first listen and I thought to myself that, for a long time, I have never heard anything that made me feel this alive. A spark was lit within me and I was left wanting more. When the band's set ended, I wasn't able to catch their name.
Tide/Edit at the Fete. Photo by Therese Sanico taken from Tide/Edit's FB page 
When I got home, I googled all the band names in the line up just so I can find them until I finally had a name to match the music I heard - Tide/Edit. That one liner description in their website "We play happy music" sealed the deal for me. I was musically in love even though I had no idea what post-rock or math rock was. 

 Their album is called Foreign Languages, which is a very fitting title because Tide/Edit is so fluent when it comes to the language of sound that while their music speaks to me in a way I cannot translate - I can understand by way of emotions and feelings.

September 21, 2014

My new OPM Obsession: Maude Manila

After years of OPM abstinence, I decided one night to go to 12 Monkeys in Century City Mall to see Up Dharma Down. I've been a fan since my student DJ days at 97.1 (Back when it was still campus radio). They threw a welcome party for our batch and UDD played for us that night and we all left that place so captivated with their music and Armi's soulful eargasmic voice.

It was already 10pm and my friend was getting bored waiting for Up Dharma Down when a band came on stage and announced, "Hi we are Maude." They started playing and suddenly, the crowd was paying attention. Their music was so easy to listen to. I love that the lyrics are relatable and at times vividly poetic. The rhythms are catchy but never generic. And the vocals, real smooth and slick. It had just the right flavor.


Maude is Glenn Calingasan, Dane Policarpio and Luis Azcona

Luis Azcona, Glenn Calingasan, Mong Rodriguez, Dane Policarpio
photos from the terno recordings website


The guys are signed under Terno Recordings and their debut single Ride Your Car is so catchy, perfect for roadtrips or just car rides in general.


I've been listening to them non-stop on spotify, the entire album is worth listening to.

July 09, 2013

New Mikky Ekko Video!!!

So I was waiting for the new Mikky Ekko Video to come out and here it is!!!



Someone please explain this to me.
I love Mikky Ekko, his music, his voice and his talent.
But for the life of me, I really don't understand what to make of this video.

May 21, 2013

Those lovely wedding videos

When I get married, this song is definitely on the list for the video or the first dance or the wedding March.
I just melt!

"I love you I always have by Mikky Ekko"



 The strangest things
The mocking bird sings of loveYet stranger still the songs that he trills were born by a doveWell, I'll say what I mean even if I look foolish
I love you,I love you, oh, I doOh, I love you
Oohhh, ohhh, oohh, ohhhh, oohhhOohhh, ohhh, oohh, ohhhh, oohhh
Well the soul that I swingAnd the heart I'd bring are humbleIts you I want
I love you,I love you, oh, I doOh, I love you
I love you, I always have 

May 17, 2013

Mikky Ekko Obsession (Yes, he's that guy from Rihanna's Stay)

This guy is seriously HOT!!! Look at that face, listen to that voice and tell me, how could you not fall in love with him? 

One listen to Pull Me Down and I was hooked. The instrumentals, the pacing of the song, the vocals, the lyrics - it all just comes together to give you a sensory overload. 

Pull Me Down (Mikky Ekko)

You may have also heard him as the guy in Rihanna's stay (which he also wrote and produced) or from that song from Teen Wolf.

I can't even type one coherent sentence.. Because MIKKY EKKO!
So just listen to him and enjoy. 
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