Here's an original song I've written years ago. It's way too different before, thought a remake would be nice.

DEMO Recorded using:
Garageband iOS (iPhone 4s)
Smart/Touch Instruments (Midi)
Earpods for Vocals

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Don't tell me you will run away coz i have so much more to say to you
I know you'll be faraway, someday I'll have you

I don't know, you turn my life and make it grow into something

I need you

Turn the lights on so that we can see what has we become to be
I never thought that you're the one for me, that someday I'll have you

I don't know, you turn my life and make it grow into something

I need you (i need you here)
I want you to be beside me and listen

You are everything I am
You are everything I stand for
You are everything I'd be
You are everything, everything to me
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Music and Lyrics by Zel Bautista

Listen - Modern Lullabies (Demo Version Only)

Sakali

Verse 1:
Ang bawat ngiti mo’y tila ba ganti
Sa mga pasakit na dulot ng mga taong nagdaan
Hindi na nanaisin pang mawalay sa ‘yong tabi
Sasabayan kita sa bawat sandali
 
Chorus: 
Kung sakali mang isipan ay makalimot
Sa isang halik, lahat ay magbabalik
 
Verse 2:
Sabay sa ihip ng hangin
Pag-ibig mong walang hanggan
Sa ating paghimlay       
Di tayo mawawalay
 
Pre Chorus:
Ikaw, ako, ano ito?
Di mapaliwanag ang damdaming sa’yong sayo
Ikaw, ako, iba ito   
Di mapaliwanag ang damdaming sa’yong sayo


Sakali

Can't help falling in love

i woke to find your ghost
folded amongst my drawers
on notes tucked in my books
are we still keeping score?

upon the brown brick walls
under the mango tree
we wrote our names in chalk
forgetting rain would bleed

you'd burrow into bed
you’d bury me in sheets
you’d dig my secrets up
and then uproot my grief

i drowned my love in waves
of honey chardonnay
i set my throat aflame
to never say your name

now I know I'm gliding down a tight rope
this train of thought is never gonna lead me home
when your breath blew over like a credo
it still echoes in my head when i'm alone

who would i be if i didn't know you
where would you be if i didn't leave you there
how did i pretend i didn't need you
how could you pretend you didn't see it

all the mile long walks
over blocks and blocks
what you're dreaming of
is what keeps me up

and when i close my eyes
i feel the void inside
i feel the great divide
wishing you were beside me

the great divide

Edge Of Desire (a John Mayer cover)

My 2nd composition about "the one who got away". Special thanks to Lara Maigue for sharing her talent and her time :)

Keyboard and male vocals are me.
On the trumpet is Neo Manosca. 

Muntikan Na

A song based on Psalm 51.

Have mercy on me, O God, according to your unfailing love (v1)
I was a sinner since birth (v5)
You taught me the wisdom that comes from above (v6)

Don't cast me out I have nowhere to go (v12)
Cleanse me and I will be whiter than snow (v7)

You ask for my life so I'll give it, though this grief has torn me apart (my own words)
Take my broken spirit, take my broken heart (v17)

You ask for my praise so I'll give it (v15)
I'm coming back to the start (my own words)
Take my broken spirit, take my broken heart (v17)

Broken (Psalm 51)

Performed LIVE on Fresh Filter Studio Sessions on July 7, 2016

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recorded & mixed by Allan Confiado

Apartel - "Better Off"

Take a chance
When life begins to pull you closer to the edge, into the edge
Make a plan
And learn to realize that things will find its way

And as your eyes can see the colour of the light that shines on me 
I am awakened by the beauty of this love that poisoned me
And as you whisper to my ears we're both in awe

Why dont you drive and take me to a place that we dont know
So i can hold you still and notice that your love for me is real
Why dont you drive and take control of all the best in me
We leave our worries behind every road 
And let our story unfold

Take my hand
We'll drive along with the horizon til the end, til the end
We're making plans
Chasing city lights
And holding up this way, holding up this way

as you look into my eyes 
I see the other side of me 
I'm surrounded by the beauty of your love that captured me
As you breathe into my ears 
We're both in awe

Could you take me away in a different space and time
As long as you're here, as long as you're here

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Music recorded and mixed only on iPhone 7+ Garageband.
Words and Music written by Zel Bautista

Zel Bautista's Album

Drive - Modern Lullabies (Demo Version Only)

Michael Heraldo - Guitar x Vox
Joe Daza Puyat - Recording x Mixing

I’ll take you in
And you’ll knock me out
I’ll say it again
I’m giving up
On you
You’re no good for me
We’re too
Different it’s plain to see

Vices, in the city of daydreams
If we get high tonight, oh what would it mean?
Vices, in the city where it seems
That even if we say goodnight
Oh no one would sleep
(Gotta give it to the weed)

I had my doubts
On whether I should take this
Soon I found out
I wont be laughing when the day ends
Cuz you
You bring out the worst in me
It’s just cruel
You took back the ecstasy

Vices, in the city of daydreams
If we get high tonight, oh what would it mean?
Vices, in the city where it seems
That even if we say goodnight
Oh no one would sleep
(Gotta give it to the weed)

Wont you give yourself to me
Wont you give me something real

Vices, in the city of daydreams
If we get high tonight, oh what would it mean?
Vices, in the city where it seems
That even if we say goodnight
Oh no one would sleep
(Gotta give it to the weed)

Vices (Acoustic Demo)

Here's a personal project we did while on isolation. A cover by Kim Trinidad (Loop), KC Salazar (KRNA), and Debb Acebu (Honeydrop) during the quarantine.

Mix and mastered by Emmanuel Aguila of Eelectric Studio.

Guitar tracks by KC and Kim with special participation of Karl Lucente (Hey! It's Your Birthday)for the ambient guitars. Everything was recorded in our own homes. 

Listen to the original song here: https://open.spotify.com/track/1JPRgRUK044O15wgv8uZO1.

Souvenir (boygenius Cover) by Kim Trinidad, KC Salazar, & Debb Acebu

Debb

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