Khavn and the Kontra Kino Orchestra’s Ang Babaeng Nauulol is one of those albums that totally slips under the radar and delivers a beautiful listen. For fans of Filipino music, this should be a welcome addition in their record collection.
is one of those albums that totally slips under the radar and delivers a beautiful listen. For fans of Filipino music, this should be a welcome addition in their record collection.
“The concept is not to have a concept. But if push comes to shove… the concept/non-concept or strategy is to play and record live music that is fully improvised based on live instructions from me and based on a melody I have composed to an imaginary silent film that hasn’t been created,” Khavn explained.
Second, the fact that Khavn got some 33 renowned musicians — including Armi Millare, Cooky Chua, Ian Lofamia, Isha Abubakar, Isla Atinero, Paul Zialcita, Ronald Tomas, and Wendell Garcia among many others – top buy into this concept… ahem… or non-concept of scoring an imaginary film. “Brezel Goring recorded everyone on his four-track tape recorder and was hungry as it gobbled up as many TDK blank tapes as possible. This organic machine churned out more than a thousand new songs in four days of extremely serious goofing around in my home studio in Mondo Manila.”