Bisdak Rock has come of age
July 24, 2006 | 12:00am
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Music binds souls and cultures.
As music talents abound in Cebu, I used such thought to start working on stories that feature the struggles, the shares of rejections, and most of all the achievements of both established and uprising Bisdak bands.
Before Sinulog, I chronicled the sprays and the bratatatats of top Bisaya nga reggae band "Junior Kilat". This was shortly followed by "The Journey" of rap/hip-hop act from the South - Dice and K9 Mobbstarr - as Dice Rosaroso of "Itsumo" fame espoused on the jagged terrains of that tricky uphill climb to stardom - from the injuries created by initial rejection and detraction to the summits conquered afterwards and the view from up there.
That same week, I moved on to promote Talisay City-based hip-hop trio Konigs (pronounced Koi-nigs) in the launch of their "Nganong Ni-Enter" album at Handuraw Events Café, a musical project that bears of the sarcastic Bisdak punchline that lambasts specifically a person indulged in substance abuse and thus couldn't quite make much of life.
And because I have so much admiration for world music, I worked on a story about "Kadangyan" and the tribal wisdom propagated by the so-called godfather of local ethno-tribal music. Kadangyan is now in Manila backed by a major label and handled by the manager of alternative Pinoy rock bands Eraserheads and The Dawn, this based on a text message of one of its members, John Govinda.
After a meeting with co-editors of this paper, I learned of the favor they have extended to the cause I am propagating and so maintained the Thursday space for Bisdak band features at the Entertainment Section handled by editor Nathalie Tomada. So that in the next months, the move was intensified with stories on "Phylum: Classified Alternative Music" (March 2), "The Oxymoron that is Santing Scalawags" (March 6), and "Blood of Stone: Poetry in Motion" (March 10).
On March 23, a vibrant Indephums band presented a potpourri of subjects from matters of the heart written by incurable romantics, to plain silly-goofiness, down to the subliminal look at socio-political issues woven by beautiful minds of four men passionate about their music and whose diverse methods of upbringing and musical influences collide to produce songs that have already jolted and bolted, audio-wise, even the desensitized critics of Bisdak music. This paper took notice of that.
The cause went on with "Get Ossified, Glass of Dirt: Bisrock metalheads, Mantequilla flavors Bolinao and Gangrene" till the last two bands had their album launching at Handuraw.
The following months saw stories of "Scrambled Eggs (Kada Uli Hilot), Missing Filemon (Sine-sine), and Aggressive Audio (Senior Citizen)" splashed on pages of the Entertainment section, which also served as barometer of the sustenance we put up to keep the cause burning.
On June 8, "Makadawa" expressed the goal of creating songs that, amid a face of "flimflam-iness" on the surface, would go farther in reach, deeper in range, and would leave a lasting impact on listeners as these themes don the spirit of pro-activism and progressive values as in the league of Pinoy music pillar-icons "Asin" and "Yano". This paper shared in the band's advocacy.
In the following week, the yearning of struggling "Assembly Language" on the completion of their materials for an Extended Play album was featured. Through their track "Tabang", the band decodes the message of bliss amid poverty. Tabang is the amplification of Assembly's experience when they had to munch on stale bread worth a peso each, and wash the baked stuff down with iced water worth another peso after a practice session at a studio in the Lahug area to deal with budget constraints. Though this paper didn't provide assistance in monetary terms, support flowed by providing a venue for the group's clean blend to be underscored.
At about this time, I was already translating some parts of my feature articles in English to the vernacular for Banat News for the "Banda, Musika, and Campus Kalandrakas" themes of Hugyaw section. Other Bisdak bands Levimaboram, Yield, Puppy-Eyed Kirtmen, Agipo, Medias and Raskafarian, among a list of over forty bands, already had their time to shine.
Now, I have a twice-a-week writing assignment for both TF Entertainment page and Banat News, the latter handled by editor Ryan Mark Borinaga, with Bisrock (Bisaya rock) bands list provided by Ramil Dizon of 93.1 Smash FM who is another point person when it comes to the nurturing of Bisrock talents along with Segundo Bre Abrea, Jr of the program "YourVoice, YourChoice Tingog Kabataan" Tuesdays and Thursdays, 9:30-11:30 am over dyWF Smash FM.
Soon to take centerstage are "Tingkagul, Kabobo, Page One, Birth Control, Ire, New Anthem, Avlish, Timeslot, Flirt, Spañul, Castle Freak, Domestic Grass, and Zymergy" to complete the first batch of a roster of Bisrock-ing talents.
In the hope of helping more Bisdak talents, I would like to advise them to start professionalizing their attitudes toward music and learn from the brouhaha at the recent Minglanilla concert.
"To know thy music" should be a rule of thumb. It is important to know the direction of one's music, and to be passionate about it. This requires making sensible songs that are sure to leave behind indelible marks in the music scene. Next is to put agreements on gigs in writing most especially nowadays that predators are out of their lairs to exploit Bisdak talents, sans the respect and the recognition that are due them how ever these talents may be tagged "ismoltym".
Bisrock has come of age. It has led to the creation of clans of supporters from every nook and cranny in the metropolis and towns. It opened online chat channels and websites such as the Bisrock Café. It has also given our youngsters inspiration to get united in one theme - that is the love for Sugbuanong Binisaya and to get cohesive in their communal involvement as well as to be decisive in pushing for the cause on "non-remix of musical creations, and anti-piracy."
The support has tested too their participation in the upholding of the culture of reading as they grab copies after copies of TF and Banat to check on the features. And so they learned that gone is the age of excesses in the trappings of being rockers, a subculture that worshipped drugs, promiscuity and fleeting fame.
The message of upholding Bisdak music, counting in what YooMaxx (Yoyoy Villame and Max Surban) propagated, is for the youth to feel the real high that comes from great music that adores a rich culture of poetry as in the works of "Ossified" and "Agipo", of the legacy of indigenous cultures and of interracial influences that allow us to discern who we really are as a people and as musicians.
Interact through [email protected] or text 0921-5323616.
www.picturetrail.com/lovemeloveu
Music binds souls and cultures.
As music talents abound in Cebu, I used such thought to start working on stories that feature the struggles, the shares of rejections, and most of all the achievements of both established and uprising Bisdak bands.
Before Sinulog, I chronicled the sprays and the bratatatats of top Bisaya nga reggae band "Junior Kilat". This was shortly followed by "The Journey" of rap/hip-hop act from the South - Dice and K9 Mobbstarr - as Dice Rosaroso of "Itsumo" fame espoused on the jagged terrains of that tricky uphill climb to stardom - from the injuries created by initial rejection and detraction to the summits conquered afterwards and the view from up there.
That same week, I moved on to promote Talisay City-based hip-hop trio Konigs (pronounced Koi-nigs) in the launch of their "Nganong Ni-Enter" album at Handuraw Events Café, a musical project that bears of the sarcastic Bisdak punchline that lambasts specifically a person indulged in substance abuse and thus couldn't quite make much of life.
And because I have so much admiration for world music, I worked on a story about "Kadangyan" and the tribal wisdom propagated by the so-called godfather of local ethno-tribal music. Kadangyan is now in Manila backed by a major label and handled by the manager of alternative Pinoy rock bands Eraserheads and The Dawn, this based on a text message of one of its members, John Govinda.
After a meeting with co-editors of this paper, I learned of the favor they have extended to the cause I am propagating and so maintained the Thursday space for Bisdak band features at the Entertainment Section handled by editor Nathalie Tomada. So that in the next months, the move was intensified with stories on "Phylum: Classified Alternative Music" (March 2), "The Oxymoron that is Santing Scalawags" (March 6), and "Blood of Stone: Poetry in Motion" (March 10).
On March 23, a vibrant Indephums band presented a potpourri of subjects from matters of the heart written by incurable romantics, to plain silly-goofiness, down to the subliminal look at socio-political issues woven by beautiful minds of four men passionate about their music and whose diverse methods of upbringing and musical influences collide to produce songs that have already jolted and bolted, audio-wise, even the desensitized critics of Bisdak music. This paper took notice of that.
The cause went on with "Get Ossified, Glass of Dirt: Bisrock metalheads, Mantequilla flavors Bolinao and Gangrene" till the last two bands had their album launching at Handuraw.
The following months saw stories of "Scrambled Eggs (Kada Uli Hilot), Missing Filemon (Sine-sine), and Aggressive Audio (Senior Citizen)" splashed on pages of the Entertainment section, which also served as barometer of the sustenance we put up to keep the cause burning.
On June 8, "Makadawa" expressed the goal of creating songs that, amid a face of "flimflam-iness" on the surface, would go farther in reach, deeper in range, and would leave a lasting impact on listeners as these themes don the spirit of pro-activism and progressive values as in the league of Pinoy music pillar-icons "Asin" and "Yano". This paper shared in the band's advocacy.
In the following week, the yearning of struggling "Assembly Language" on the completion of their materials for an Extended Play album was featured. Through their track "Tabang", the band decodes the message of bliss amid poverty. Tabang is the amplification of Assembly's experience when they had to munch on stale bread worth a peso each, and wash the baked stuff down with iced water worth another peso after a practice session at a studio in the Lahug area to deal with budget constraints. Though this paper didn't provide assistance in monetary terms, support flowed by providing a venue for the group's clean blend to be underscored.
At about this time, I was already translating some parts of my feature articles in English to the vernacular for Banat News for the "Banda, Musika, and Campus Kalandrakas" themes of Hugyaw section. Other Bisdak bands Levimaboram, Yield, Puppy-Eyed Kirtmen, Agipo, Medias and Raskafarian, among a list of over forty bands, already had their time to shine.
Now, I have a twice-a-week writing assignment for both TF Entertainment page and Banat News, the latter handled by editor Ryan Mark Borinaga, with Bisrock (Bisaya rock) bands list provided by Ramil Dizon of 93.1 Smash FM who is another point person when it comes to the nurturing of Bisrock talents along with Segundo Bre Abrea, Jr of the program "YourVoice, YourChoice Tingog Kabataan" Tuesdays and Thursdays, 9:30-11:30 am over dyWF Smash FM.
Soon to take centerstage are "Tingkagul, Kabobo, Page One, Birth Control, Ire, New Anthem, Avlish, Timeslot, Flirt, Spañul, Castle Freak, Domestic Grass, and Zymergy" to complete the first batch of a roster of Bisrock-ing talents.
In the hope of helping more Bisdak talents, I would like to advise them to start professionalizing their attitudes toward music and learn from the brouhaha at the recent Minglanilla concert.
"To know thy music" should be a rule of thumb. It is important to know the direction of one's music, and to be passionate about it. This requires making sensible songs that are sure to leave behind indelible marks in the music scene. Next is to put agreements on gigs in writing most especially nowadays that predators are out of their lairs to exploit Bisdak talents, sans the respect and the recognition that are due them how ever these talents may be tagged "ismoltym".
Bisrock has come of age. It has led to the creation of clans of supporters from every nook and cranny in the metropolis and towns. It opened online chat channels and websites such as the Bisrock Café. It has also given our youngsters inspiration to get united in one theme - that is the love for Sugbuanong Binisaya and to get cohesive in their communal involvement as well as to be decisive in pushing for the cause on "non-remix of musical creations, and anti-piracy."
The support has tested too their participation in the upholding of the culture of reading as they grab copies after copies of TF and Banat to check on the features. And so they learned that gone is the age of excesses in the trappings of being rockers, a subculture that worshipped drugs, promiscuity and fleeting fame.
The message of upholding Bisdak music, counting in what YooMaxx (Yoyoy Villame and Max Surban) propagated, is for the youth to feel the real high that comes from great music that adores a rich culture of poetry as in the works of "Ossified" and "Agipo", of the legacy of indigenous cultures and of interracial influences that allow us to discern who we really are as a people and as musicians.
Interact through [email protected] or text 0921-5323616.
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