An arrangement of Robert Glasper Experiment's "Ah Yeah". I do not own any copyright to this song.

performed, produced, mixed by Jireh Calo

video on Youtube: https://youtu.be/3U7c73rdN70

Robert Glasper Experiment - "Ah Yeah" (cover)

An arrangement of Marcina Arnold's "Forefathers". Performed, recorded, mixed, edited on Easter weekend. I love this song and had so much fun creating this! Enjoy :)
#kwartosessions

Instruments used:
voice
acoustic guitar
cajon
shaker
vibraphone
kumbing (Philippine jaw harp)

Youtube video: https://youtu.be/wuOcg2WZQac
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DISCLAIMER: I do not own any copyrights to this song. Listen to the original here: https://marcinaarnold.bandcamp.com/track/forefathers

Marcina Arnold - Forefathers (cover)

One of the originals in my 6-track self-titled debut EP.  
Listen to the full EP @ http://jirehcalo.bandcamp.com/album/jireh

Jireh Calo - keyboard & vocals
Nikki Cabardo - second keys
Nicole Calo - back-up vocals
Paolo Cortez - guitar
Bergan Nuñez - electric upright bass
Chuck Menor - drums

Produced by Paolo Garcia @ Strategy & Magic Studio
Mastered through analog and digitally @ Womb Works
Official EP launch held on May 15, 2014 @ 121, Allegro Center, Pasong Tamo Extention.

Listen to the live performance @ https://youtu.be/S2z73K2V9hM

Jireh

Stay

to the water I go to retrieve what may have been forgotten.
the ocean and moon send their gifts.
received, I share as an offering 

music by the waves
vocal improv, poetry, production, video by Jireh Calo

Oshanna (an offering)

A short piece born out of the main theme of Don Ellis' "33 222 1 222" song, as performed by the Don Ellis Orchestra in 1966 at the Monterey Jazz Festival. The bass line had been stuck in my head for days, haha. I had intended to do it in the original 19/8 meter but the DAW I was using didn't seem to have the setting for that time signature so I did it in 10/8. 

If you haven't heard much of Don Ellis, you should definitely check him out. Amazing person and musician. <3 You can listen to the song that inspired this piece at https://youtu.be/QcIph0O_tnw
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Created using Reason (for the first time, yay!). 
03/13/15

Tribute To Don Ellis

Written and produced by Jireh Calo

Lyrics:
Truth? 
The truth is this:
As we drift alone on our separate clouds of ecstasy,
we hide from what lies within, 
What lies within the depths of our own humanity
Voiceless -- or so we deem -- 
the souls of those that lay before us, right in front of our eyes --
Oblivious, are we?
So into oblivion we shall fade. 

Truth is? 
The truth is this:
we believe in our own ignorance,
proudly, stubbornly so;
Faith and goodness and all we hold on to,
futile
till through the fires they go.
And if they remain 
shimmering, glimmering amidst the ashes of deep cold scars,
so shall they rise, rise from their heap 
and reap
and forever be with the immortal dust of stars.

Chorus:
Where do we begin?
There'll questions and questions, more questions to come.
Open up your mind,
We're all searching for answers,
We're all searching for answers

(Truth?)
What is truth? You tell me.
We search it yet we paint it, then we stretch it, then we twist it
but we shall only see what we want to see
while truth mourns in the corner, laughing at the loss of our sanity.

The cure? 
The pain is the cure.
The cure to our naivety, our self-destructive pride,
our self-destructive vanity that blinds us from the beings that we are,
beings that we could be (we could be)

Chorus:
Where do we begin?
There'll questions and questions, more questions to come.
Open up your mind,
We're all searching for answers,
We're all searching for answers

(vocal adlib w/ tagalog gibberish)
(repeat chorus)

Truth Is (?)

Vlade Guigni - drums
James Gionnoni - electric bass
Elvin Rodriguez - electric guitar
Jireh Calo - vocals, keys

Mixed by Jireh Calo
Performed live at the Berklee 160 CAF, Boston MA

Solos over "Butterfly"

An improvised performance at the 2017 PEER Servants Concert. 
Song now on my new album "Solid Ground" https://jirehcalo.bandcamp.com/album/solid-ground

Jireh Calo - voice & piano,
Elvin Rodriguez - electric guitar,
Vlade Guigni - drums

Recorded on iPhone

In The Silence (live improv)

An arrangement of Grace Nono's "Salidumay", a Tagalog adaptation of the Salidummay songs of the Igorot and Kalinga natives of the Cordillera Mountains in northern Philippines. 

Arranged, performed and produced by Jireh Calo

Jireh Calo - Salidumay (arrangement)

A collective arrangement of traditional songs from Ghana, West Africa, playing around with the rhythms of the "Agbekor" and "Gahu" of the Ewe people. 

Grzegorz Wlodarczyk - double bass
Jacob Jezioro - double bass
Jireh Calo - piano, vocals, ankle bells
Luke Norris - tenor sax
Nicko Guerrero - drums
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Final project for Jerry Leake's World Percussion class.(Fall 2018)#berkleeglobaljazz

Avu Matodzo / Sei Adzo Yi

An original composition, performed live  at the David Friend Recital Hall, Berklee College of Music. 

Connor Kent - drums
Alex Johnson - tenor saxophone
Rosanna Zacharias - double bass
Jacob Means - mandolin
Jireh Calo - piano, voice

Music & lyrics by Jireh Calo

Watch live video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bB28ABAW3QI

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