Wednesday, April 26, 2006
Jon hamming it up with Bennii my drummer friend who insists that good guys wear black! He plays for a group called Barfly and is a session drummer as well. 
--MXRR at 2:30 AM
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Here's a pic of me with Chris Cayzer... If you saw the Sam Milby movie ... the one with Bea and John Lloyd, Chris was one of Sam's bandmates... he is being introduced as the newest talent of Star Records... i did a rearrangement of a " Hold on " a neocolours song for him coming out in a compilation album if i'm not mistaken.
--MXRR at 2:23 AM
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Tuesday, April 25, 2006
SIDECRASH
That's the name of this new band from Davao that i'm helping out right now. A group of young guys who just want to play on and improve their music whilst making an album as well. These guys are fresh grads... so now that they're out of school they want to try their luck in Manila.
The vocalist reminds me of early Spongecola but their music is pop rock ... closer to what the guys of Cueshe plays.
I seldom do live recordings for a whole band because of the tedious process that it involves.
The setting up of the drums and band instruments seem to take forever till you get it right, Plugging the guitars and bass and keyboards with mic for vocal tracks while mic'ing the drums and getting the right mix and balance in the monitors so that the band can record properly does take time. Not to mention the fact that you have to play the music loud enough to inspire a rock band to perform better... Aw my poor monitor speakers.
We are doing 8 more songs out of a 12 song lineup and just doing drums for the next two days before we move on to bass and guitars then keys and finally vocals.
I did finish one song for Chris Cayzer... at least i think that's the correct spelling of his name.
He's a fil-aussie dude who likes Jon Mayer. He even sounds like him at times.
Civ the producer from Star asked me to do a rearangement of a Neocolours song called " Hold On" but as an acoustic band type of arrangement.
I think it's coming out as a soundtrack album for their new soap, if i'm not mistaken.
This one is one of my better arrangements since it's mostly guitar based.
I'm particularly proud of the fact that i played everything on this song.
The song actually sounds like a whole band playing live and not done on my PC
and mixed on a Mac.... hmm not bad if i may say so.
:-)
I'll put pics of the band probably next post
I'm tired time for bed
--MXRR at 1:45 AM
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Monday, April 03, 2006
and it goes on and on and...
I did get to finish my arrangements on schedule... The Toni and Sam song has been recorded and mixed at the ABS studios. I've submitted my thirty song arrangement to MXN, and i did an arrangement for the Silver Swan jingle currently airing... sung by Sheryn Regis. I'm currently doing a rearrangement of the Kyla song "Buti na Lang" by Jonathan Manalo... to be sung by Jonathan on his upcoming album. I haven't started on the other arrangements yet. This new arrangement of "Buti na Lang" will still be metered at 6/8 but it will sound more like a triplet four time signature. The chords has been transposed down to a C and will start with a minor key then after intro the song will go into a major key... quite unusual but Jon likes it that way so... I kinda like this arrangement coz it will allow me to put a blues guitar on the song. Maybe i was in a good mood tonight so i decided to put an organ solo as well.
I'd also like to blog about this great eating place we found... It was Jaymsterbeans birthday last March 30 so we decided to meet up in Megamall and decide where to eat later. Since Jamie didn't want to eat at the mall, and i didn't want to stray away from the Ortigas area we decided to try out this "palengke paluto" thingy in Julia Vargas.
Suffice it to say... we were all happy we decided to go to this place instead.
First off, we got to buy fresh tuna and salmon for sashimi... and they tasted way better than the ones you get from a japanese resto... perhaps due to being really fresh and not refrigerated?
Then jamie bought prawns since she likes them butterred and we also got grouper fish or commonly known as LapuLapu... we had them steamed and with sweet and sour sauce, of course two separate dishes. There was also inihaw na liempo, since i'm being carefull with eating seafoods after this thing with my leg.
I'm now looking for an excuse to actually go back there again. :-)
Note to self... GO BACK TO THE GYM!!! i'm getting huge again waaaaaaaaaaa
--MXRR at 1:03 AM
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Since it was Raspberry night ... naturally the color of the night was red... taken without a flash at the Absolut launch with jon and marlone.
--MXRR at 1:01 AM
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Jaymsterbean and Alexie during the launch... holding plastic cups of vodka...hey they're free :-)
--MXRR at 12:56 AM
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Taken during the launch of Absolut Vodka Raspberry held at the Fort. I was musical director for this show where the prod number involved an Electronica group, Makiling ensemble and the Dawn, in a rearragnement of their Enveloped Ideas song.
--MXRR at 12:53 AM
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