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Buwan-Buwan is a traditional Filipino game that enacts the lunar eclipse. Players draw a circle on the ground representing the moon, and must stay inside this circle. Meanwhile, one player acts as the Bakunawa, the mythical giant sea serpent who would eat the moon: he may not enter the circle, but must touch another player who is inside it in order to switch places.

Buwan-Buwan has been all but forgotten by a generation of young, Filipino urbanites weaned on gadgets and mass media, but BuwanBuwan, a Pinoy beatmakers and electronic musicians collective, appropriate the concept of a game they in fact never played as children, transforming it into a framework for their perpetual creative exchanges, a take-off point for defining their indentity as Filipino artists, and above all, a common ground where they can all play.

Hey there. We're JacksGap. JacksGap is a video project that was born from a love of travelling and telling stories. We recently launched a series on Youtube called Shed Sessions where we invite musicians to perform an acoustic set in our back garden shed. We'll be using this space to share the recordings as well as curating music we're listening to. If you'd like to see the videos head over to youtube.com/jacksgap. If you'd like to stay up to date on our recordings follow us on Sound Cloud. Enjoy!

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