Sunday 8th May 2022 Song List (8pm Brisbane time video broadcast- 6pm Philippine time)
Audio replay of last Sunday's broadcast (1pm Sydney Time - 11am Philippine Time)
This 58 minute program will be presenting Original Filipino Music from Australia and the rest of the world in Philippine languages in English, Tagalog and Bisaya. All comments and opinions in this program are not necessarily held by the station.
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8.00pm Say More To Life by Butch Monserrat of Monserrat Musikworx in Newnham, Tasmania
This is Say More Radio SWR 99.9 FM's signature track. We believe that musicians colour our world and also gives us a way to feel and express our emotions.
8.09pm Lone Wolf by riddo (Sydney)
riddo. is an unsigned independent artist whose passion for music grew since he started creating and producing in 2012. Although his enthusiasm for music has remained since he started playing piano at the age of 5, he decided to take his passion in songwriting and composition into a career path after the breakout song Ghost in collaboration with Liana with over 100,000+ streams on Spotify in 2017.
His focus is to create catchy melodies and phrases along with a message in each song. His sound surrounds the idea of vocal
distortion, percussive instrumentals, and 808 basses.
This is another example of Bisdak-Aussie music. Riddo's parents are both from Cebu. He went to uni in the Philippines and was set to be a professional basketball player. Turns out his passion for music got the better of him. When we had parties with his parents Roger and Cleo, I remember him as a tot running around with his cousins, and also being there when his Mum Cleo, was in gigs around Sydney and interstate, singing. When I interviewed Riddo a few years back in Sydney, guess who was there to support? Proud Mum, Cleo, of course.
8.15pm HBD Akong Pinangga (Happy Birthday My Love) Jyel Tagbo (Guagua, Pampanga) & Mitchell Badelles (Hillcrest, Brisbane)
Mitch actually wrote this back in 2017 when his The One, Jenny, turned 50. Being a Bisayan even with his whitey face, Mitch thought a traditional Balak (oratory speech) would be nice to express his love. This year, Mitch asked Jyel to put music with the words. Mitch threw so many ideas at Jyel as to how the music should be. To the average man, it would have been noise and confusion, and that's how life is - lots of noise and confusion. It took a master to create music out of the many thoughts sent to Jyel.
Here are Jyel's thoughts about what I asked him to do:
"I can honestly say that this latest creation is the hardest I’ve done among all our collaborations. I could line this new song po to one of the most complicated songs I’ve done in my whole career.
The song sounds simple, but is also complicated. It is soft, yet it’s also aggressive, its old yet it’s also new. The arrangement has been a tough challenge, plus the fact that it’s also in a language that is not my mother tongue. (Keep in mind that Jyel is from Pampanga)
I kept in mind all of your inputs, po, the feeling you had for every verse, and the concoction of genres you have unknowingly gave me. At first, you’ve directed me po to an the old folk elvis type genre, then you said, then visayan balak, then the sea shanty-type.
What do thoughts sound like? Thoughts are jumbled! Mixed! Unplanned! Unorthodox! Complicated! Thoughts are imaginative and fantasized yet thoughts are also real. Thoughts are life puzzles to complete. Then it hit me po, your thoughts my kind sir is a BEAUTIFUL CACOPHONY!
This song is like having multiple songs in one song. It’s an inception of songs. Using your words, delivering them in a hundred of ways on a flowing track of “Nature-Earth-Sounding-Instruments”. I also experimented using a Water Container for kick bass, also a “pot cover” for additive snare. I even used my body for
