Nice! Featured in a set of electronic kulintang on my radio show Global Odyssey KYRS.org

By Kat Estacio and Dale Bazar as part of Nusasonic Radio #5: Banana Ketchup, produced by HERESY and WSK. Listen to full episode here https://www.mixcloud.com/Nusasonic/nusasonic-radio-5-banana-ketchup/ 

Lingap n. (tagalog): compassionate care

One of the ways I'm learning to tend to and receive care from community during the pandemic is through food. I look at the work being done by community pantries that have popped-up across the Philippines like the Maginhawa Community Pantry in Quezon City and Community Fridges in Toronto; these local and decentralized initiatives address food security in ways that governments (and it's partnered community agencies) cannot.

For this track, I collaborated with Dale Bazar, a kulintang musician who studied Ethnomusicology in Manila under the guidance of kulintang master Aga Mayo Butocan. Dale is also a fellow community organizer and culture producer.

I started building the track with a bell/chime synth sound to spell out "kumain k n b" (have you eaten) in morse code. This message is usually how me and my beloveds show their care, by asking if we have eaten. I took inspiration from the time when Banana Ketchup was invented (wartime era) and used the rhythm of the morse code as a foundation to build the track. The notes I used are based on the tuning of my kulintang, which are accompanied by some pads and drums. Dale then added badass kulintang rhythms, flute and some fat beats. Our guiding principle is 8+5: using the 8 gongs of Maguindanaon kulintang from Mindanao and 5 for the pentatonic scale of Kalinga music from Northern Luzon. Together it is 13, the number of the divine feminine, an invitation to turn towards our caring nature and to nourish ourselves and our community. A reminder that to care for each other is revolutionary, that there is strength in togetherness, and what is fed and cared for is what flourishes.

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from OLAibi 3rd album "new rain"
i played keybords and voice, effects.
thank you ai san∞

【itunes】
https://itunes.apple.com/jp/album/new-rain/id567742493


OLAibi / Niufive Featuring Kahimi Karie

FADER Mix: LAL

Silla and Rise’s debut album is a sonic experiment blending Inuit throat-singing and futuristic dancefloor beats.  Silla are Cynthia Pitsiulak (Kimmirut, NU) and Charlotte Qamaniq (Iglulik, NU) their name comes from the word “Sila” in their Inuktitut dialect meaning weather.  Sila is what surrounds us; it is what connects us to our land, to the moon, sun and stars, the ocean and the air we breathe. In respecting and honoring  the need to preserve Inuit culture and paying homage to our land and the strong connection to its  spirituality, they experience and perform the sounds of traditional and contemporary throat songs.  Rise is Ottawa’s Rise Ashen, a Juno Award nominated global grooves producer, DJ and dancer who has spent his life pursuing the intersection of traditional and futuristic music.  Free DL, please share far and wide!

Bad - Unnuaq ft Melody McKiver

"Happy" from 'Puberty 2' by Mitski, out on Dead Oceans on June 17th, 2016

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Puberty 2

Mitski - Happy

www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1499L4GMsg

all your favorite birds are flying chirping  
all your favorite rivers flowing 
making up the colors of your forest 
making up the creatures all from nothing

all your favorite flowers are all blooming 
all your favorite trees are growing 
making up a grassland as you’re walking
 making up a world where we have everything

floatin out on the floor
foldin lines on the walls
watching crayons breath forth & back & back & forth
where the ground was before
now there's water and more
now there's fire bigger brighter rising from your heart
inside your chest there's a house
it's where your ego gets doused
makin love makin war makin universes out of the void
open all of the doors
pick your goddess of choice
pick your god
but wake up

F.F.F (favoriteflowerfetish)

yeah im EMB



originally a letter for the motherland, peep

I LOVE U BUWANBUWAN
I LOVE U K
I LOVE U N
OK FUCK I LOVE U TOO L

【 mariposa 】

https://open.spotify.com/track/5irMjX5Vwpod35QD0t5NXU
Follow tiffi @iamtiffi <3
Lyrics
[verse 1]
i take it back coz I’m bad at talking
you can try but i know i’m awkward
what to do with my hands when i’m walking
i’m falling, i’m falling
and even though you break the ice, i
can’t even look you in the eyes, my
my confidence is lacking
i’m falling, i’m falling

[chorus]
i’m awkward and shy and i try and i try
but it never comes out right
my sentences suck so i pull out a joke
but it's wrong place wrong wrong time
i’m awkward and shy and i try and i try
but it never comes out right
my sentences suck so i pull out a joke
but it's wrong place wrong wrong time

[verse 2]
i’m trying my best with the words but i can’t get the syllables out at all
every noun every verb and my tongue is just tripping
i can’t seem to take the fall
and i know that you're patient with all the time that i’m wasting
i can’t recall
what you were saying, the topic is hazy my brain is gone

[prechorus]
i take it back coz i’m bad at talking
you can try but i know i’m awkward
what to do with my hands when i’m walking
i'm falling, i’m falling
and even though you break the ice, i
can’t even look you in the eyes, my
my confidence is lacking
i'm falling, i’m falling

[chorus 2]
i’m awkward and shy and i try and i try
but it never comes out right
my sentences suck so i pull out a joke
but it's wrong place wrong wrong time
i’m awkward and shy and i try and i try
but it never comes out right
my sentences suck so i pull out a joke
but it's wrong place wrong wrong time

i’m awkward and shy and the thoughts in my mind
weigh me down but i laugh and smile
my sentences suck so i pull out a joke
but it's wrong place wrong wrong time
i’m awkward and shy and i try and i try
but it never comes out right
my sentences suck so i pull out a joke
but it's wrong place wrong wrong time

you know that i try and i try and i try

[chorus 3]
im awkward and shy
i try and i try and i try and i try
i pull out a joke
but it's wrong place wrong wrong time
im awkward and shy
i try and i try and i try and i try
i pull out a joke
but it's wrong place wrong wrong time

i’m awkward and shy and the thoughts in my mind
weigh me down but i laugh and smile
my sentences suck so i pull out a joke
but it's wrong place wrong wrong time
i’m awkward and shy and i try and i try
but it never comes out right
my sentences suck so i pull out a joke
but it's wrong place wrong wrong time

you know that i try and i try and i try

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Kat Estacio

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