personnel:

Elo Dinglasan - lead vocals, guitar
Jerome Exmundo - backing vocals, guitar
Mike Tee - bass, GIVE ME TIME
James Marco - drums
Kean Reformado - production, mixing

photo by Jill Chan ( jillxchan.tumblr.com )

written by Elo Dinglasan

Gather your bags
And look to the seas.
Scale the mountains
Of my fever dreams.
Look to the stars,
As you lay on the dirt;
Map the constellations
In search of your worth.

We'll find you on the shoreline,
Dippin' your feet in the water.
The salt licking your abrasions
As you find your fortunes in the sand.

Crippled man,
what dares you to move?
Cruel ambition
Makes you such a fool.
Slow now, as you check every grain
Vain attempts at, making yourself a name

Death will come like a whisper
And speak to you of the grave
For time conspires against you
And everything that you made

In The Sand

Track five of the eponymous EP, released January last year. 

Enjoy. 

Lyrics:

Emelye, I’ll wean these devices
to retain an echo of you
at the calling of your name.

Palemon will swoon you,
behind prison bars,
as these seas are my cage,
and these seas have torn us apart.

Emelye, I feel you
in every gale’s outcry.

What once was blithe
has become saturnine,
still my hands are cold:
they offer you nothing.

Yet your whispered coos
are impearled in my mind,
these saltless hands
still offer you nothing.
And Emelye, I feel you
in every gale’s outcry.
And Emelye, I hear you
in every gale’s outry.
And Emelye, your echo stays the same.
I can’t quiet the feeling
as it reverberates
in the spaces between us
wedged by this life.

And it cuts so slowly.
And it cuts so slowly.
And it cuts so slowly.
And it cuts so slowly.
Slowly yet sure.
Slowly yet sure.
Slowly yet sure,
Slowly yet—


Bass - Mike Tee
Drums - James Marco
Lead Guitar - Benj Ledesma
Rhythm Guitar and Vocals - Elo Dinglasan
Trumpet - Marco Azurin

Lyrics by Elo Dinglasan
Produced by Kean Reformado
Recorded at malabong lababo

The Mad Lilacs (EP)

Emelye

Track four of the eponymous EP, released January last year. 

Enjoy. 

Lyrics:

Fort-da. Fort-da. Fort-da: 
I’ll chant these refrains
To call you, back here, to my mind
from where you have gone.

Fort-da, cushion the weight
of your ocean crossing.

World can’t wait for you.
World won’t rest.

So promise me you won’t forget,
how the sun breaks through the leaves,
the birds in the trees,
the worms underneath;
and all your lucent dreams,
in this tropical scene—
such comforts were these
as we wait.

Bass - Mike Tee
Drums - James Marco
Lead Guitar - Benj Ledesma
Rhythm Guitar and Vocals - Elo Dinglasan

Lyrics by Elo Dinglasan
Produced by Kean Reformado
Recorded at malabong lababo

Water Year

Track one of the eponymous EP, released January last year. 

Enjoy. 

Lyrics:

Will I nil I
magnify the lenses
and lend credence to the lilt of flies
above the mud, on the rise.

Will ye nil ye
come eat my face too,
would you masticate it, grind it well,
with whittled teeth in your machines.

Will you spit it out.
Won’t you spit me out.

Your waste is my wastelessness.
Your waste is my wastelessness.

Willy nilly
will I nil I
willy nilly
will I nil I
Bass - Mike Tee
Drums - James Marco
Lead Guitar - Benj Ledesma
Rhythm Guitar and Vocals - Elo Dinglasan
Trumpet - Marco Azurin

Lyrics by Elo Dinglasan
Produced by Kean Reformado
Recorded at malabong lababo

Willy Nilly

Track two of the eponymous EP, released January last year. 

Enjoy. 

Lyrics:

If you tell me what I want,
if you tell me what I need,
I’d cash in all the days
that I spent counting

and if you could be something I could swear to,
I’d fill my mouth with silence, I’d fill all mouths with silence.
There would be nothing in the stars,
nothing to glean from leaves.
In our blanket hours,
there’d be no need to dream.

I won’t ask for much,
I wouldn’t know what to ask;
I’d keep you like a prized fur
for the shivers on my back,

And if you could be something I could swear to,
I’d fill my mouth with silence, I’d fill all mouths with silence.
There would be nothing in the stars,
nothing to glean from leaves.
In our blanket hours,
there’d be no need to dream.

And I won’t fight.
And I won’t fight.
And I won’t fight.
And I won’t fight.
And I won’t fight.
And I won’t fight.

Bass - Mike Tee
Drums - James Marco
Lead Guitar - Benj Ledesma
Rhythm Guitar and Vocals - Elo Dinglasan

Lyrics by Elo Dinglasan
Produced by Kean Reformado
Recorded at malabong lababo

Stranger

Track three of the eponymous EP, released January last year. 

Enjoy. 

Lyrics:

I would like to
pull you out of sleep
and out of dreams, for they keep you
swathed in blankets, laced in balms,
to save a semblance with gasoline aloft
your cold bed they kept soft

to hide your stillness
as we wait for the fire to witness
you lay over, leave alone.

And as you dream
your black dreams,
I watch your body surrendered,
faltered under the weight of your needs;
still I ask of these
shadows to release
you to me

‘Cause I am without you,
divided and without you—
not so collectible.

Please. Please, I’d take you anywhere.
Brother, please. Please, I’d take you anywhere.
Brother, brother.


Bass - Mike Tee
Drums - James Marco
Lead Guitar - Benj Ledesma
Rhythm Guitar and Vocals - Elo Dinglasan
Trumpet - Marco Azurin

Lyrics by Elo Dinglasan
Produced by Kean Reformado
Recorded at malabong lababo

Sleep

Members:
Elo Dinglasan – vocals / rhythm guitar
Benj Ledesma - lead guitar
James Marco – drums 
Mike Tee – bass / vocals
& Marco Azurin, with the occasional trumpet

Jerome Exmundo – guitar / vocals (2014-2017)

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