Amid fear and uncertainty, it’s a musical meditation of sorts on spiritual yearning.
Jun Lopito’s guitar playing is the stuff of legend.But you’ll have to take my word for it, because his best, most transcendent moments have always occurred live. They happen when you least expect them, in a nondescript club date or some private gig: The band goes into a song and for a while nothing much happens.
It’s been 25 years since his first solo album, 1995’s “Bodhisattvas” . Since then, there’s only been “Buddha Blues You,” a self-produced, limited release “bootleg” album that came out 10 years ago. It’s also the first evidence of a new album, rumored to be in the works ever since Ely Buendia’s Offshore Music label put Lopito in its roster of artists in 2018.In a Facebook Live interview with Jamie Wilson, theater artist and erstwhile vocalist for Lopito’s band the Bodhisattvas, the guitarist confirmed the imminent release of his second official album, which will bear the title “Bodhi3NMRK.”
“I’m chanting it for all the front-liners, that they survive this crisis,” said Lopito. “I’m also chanting for the World Health Organization that they finally get the right [vaccine] formula for this disease.” A “B-side” bearing the title “Sagala Girl” is scheduled for release on May 21. The rest of the 10-song album, equally divided between straight-ahead rockers, blues and mellower acoustic numbers, should follow in due course, with a digital release preceding its eventual appearance on vinyl sometime after the quarantine is lifted.Born Wolfrando Xavier Lavalan in 1958, the guitarist took his stage name from his father, 1960s TV variety show host Lopito.
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