Payaso's Laugh

A song I recorded way back 2003, Brod Mitchel is a Fraternity Brod of mine from Cagayan De Oro who survived the fraternity initiation rights at University of San Carlos in Cebu. He is one of the organizer of Triskelion De Mindanao.

Buhayko - Brod Mitchel Flores

My own version of Triskelion Song, which I recorded way back 2003

Triskelion song - Jay Dilan

Wicked - Jay Dilan

Just a teaser for our new song called "Learn" we still need to get back at the studio to finish the guitar parts...

Soul Brothers New Track Teaser "Learn"

A song written by Jov Kalinga and was performed by Washday. 

Jov Kalinga 1984-2009

What is Jov Kalinga Project?
When it comes to the dream of a now-gone son, expect the father to make it come true.

“Every time I sing his songs, it eases my depression”.

This is what Ding Kalinga of Jov Kalinga Project says about his late son Jov’s music. Ding did not dream to be a vocalist for a rock ‘n’ roll band. He’s an engineer and entrepreneur, making a living, taking care of his family. Music was a hobby of his; he loved jamming with Jov when he was still alive, but to be the leader of a band? That was far from his mind.

But Ding knew that he had to get back to music. He felt he needed to make his son Jov’s dream – to be a full-fledged musician – come true. So Ding thought of the best way to go about it: Form a rock’n’roll band. With him fronting it and Jov’s best friend Omni Saroca (formerly of band Hale) on drums, and joined by Reggie Concepcion and Carlo Ordonez on guitars and Jules Ortanez on bass, they became the Jov Kalinga Project.

In a way, Jov was pivotal in the band’s inception. One day, Jov’s family started tinkering with his Mac computer and in its hard drive are 50-plus songs, from raw files, demos, to finished compositions – that’s when Ding and the rest of the Kalinga family realized they can make an album off Jov’s handiwork. They decided to make it themselves, Jov’s mother Corazon as executive producer, and his sisters Janine and Kay lending their musical talents as well. In fact, Janine sang one of her Kuya Jov’s songs, “Worried Mind”. “I had to understand the emotion he put to writing and singing the song. It made me realize how deep he really is”, Janine explains as she took the daunting task of interpreting one of his brother’s creations.

These days, the Jov Kalinga Project is busy performing gigs in bars and restos all over the metro. Besides honoring the memory of Jov, Ding and company are also introducing his son’s brand of music. With influences such as Sting, Jimi Hendrix, Francis Magalona, and Eraserheads, and music genres reggae, world music, and blues, mixed with Jov’s sweet and gentle voice in harmony with his upbeat, ambient, rich music, exceptional guitar-playing, and strikingly well-versed and melancholic-yet-hopeful lyrics – you’ll be taken on a musical trip worth the ride!

“We try to connect with him every time we perform his songs”, Ding says. Although with a tinge of sadness, this is easily counteracted with the memory of a son who had a passion for music and a lust for life. Jov’s best friend Omni has nothing but high praises for him. “Manlililok siya ng mga kanta” (He sculpted songs).

The Jov Kalinga Project wants you to give “Man On A Bicycle” a listen, it’s one out of 14 tracks in the first compilation. The track is Jov’s dreamy, beach-vibe ditty on wanting to be taken far away – all the way to Mars even – just to get a break from it all. It is laidback, meaningful, and worth a listen – a preview for what to expect from Jov’s sublime repertoire.

Ding promises that they won’t stop on the first album. “Hindi kami titigil hanggang matapos (ang mga kanta niya)” (We won’t stop until we’re done producing his songs), Ding says. So expect more of Jov’s music infiltrating the airwaves. And the band’s future? Omni says, “Walang U-turn – tuloy lang” (We won’t take a U-turn – we’ll keep on going.)

Ding, Omni, and the rest are lucky to know Jov. Somehow it seems Jov was luckier to have known them.




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January 14, 2007, Soul Brothers songs particularly "Virtuality" and "Me and My Brain" was heard in Manila, Cebu, Davao and Ilo-Ilo through NU107 FM. this was the first time we released our songs in a radio station. We recorded 2 songs and gave it to my elder brother Amboy Dilan, he passed it at the NU107 station in Manila and gave it to their security guard, it was played at the segment "In The Raw" and on October of 2007we were invited at NU107 in the raw in the flesh at Club Dredd, it took us a year to pass another song called "Radio On" which gave way for us to be nominated at the NU 107 Rock Awards "In The Raw" Category...



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