The Lumang Baul
March 7, 2011Hi everyone!
I’m currently on break from TV work, which is a great opportunity for me to finish my unfinished stuff. I was so blessed this month to be visited by a colleague, singer-actress Lynn Sherman, who is also on break from work. We recorded a song - actually a mashup of existing songs- here in my home studio for a period of three days and we had an interesting process going. Hopefully my break will be long enough for me to mixdown everything I have and really hone my chops as a music producer.
Another colleague, the very talented singer-theater actor-multi-instrumentalist Nar Cabico, emailed me to ask about the AIDS-awareness rock musical we were both part of some years back. He’s joined a youth initiative on AIDS awareness and wants to use some of the songs we recorded for that. So I ended up making kalkal my lumang baul of songs and I rediscovered this gem of a song, still rough at the edges, but rather enjoyable to hear again. Lyrics were penned by a succession of writers that came and went during the troubled preproduction stage of this musical (rather aptly called “Palipat-lipat, Pasalin-salin”) so the producer, the inimitable Rochit Tanedo, finally came up with the final draft together with her daughter Amihan. The music is fairly simple, just E flat
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minor throughout (my favorite key actually, hehe), but Nar’s vocal talent really made this piece shine. We tracked the live parts at Shinji’s and mixed them down at my place, where I added a few more instruments.
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Isha Abubakar is a writer-musician. She has won awards and recognition for both her writing and music. And she is happy. Baliw ka na lang kung hindi ka pa masaya. 