theme songs track 6

"sasamahan ka pa rin"

the song opens with a very hetfield-ian RATATAHH, harkening back to that saguijo METALLICA tribute gig, where shirley did a weird set, haha playing our originals, back to back with a sick cover of FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS, sung by jing, and since joe and ean were both absent, i was playing guitar, and manix of gorgoro was subbing for the extra Em droning noises haha (we weren't able to practice with him, but it was still awesome) that was a great gig. and if memory serves me right, that was one of the last few gigs of HOPSCOTCH, where most of the loa engineers are from. hehe. anyway, back to the hetfield shouts, which i think provide that contrast between track 5 + track 6, cause they sort of flow into each other, and both sort of tackle the same idea, but you know how they're different too. Ean's song on the album (not counting our co-write on bato) is this amazing track, especially after the rhythm section did their thing, putting a very dark beatle shuffle into the thing. then the horns!!!

that was a very eye opening recording session, being at loa with the sago horns, finding out how brass really really really makes a difference to a song. sasamahan is probably just the beginning, expect more horny tracks from shirley haha. the supposed "fadeout" outro where everybody still played to an "ending" also worked, since it allowed the horns to pull off that great jam at the end, and letting jing do his talking head-y guitar riff. and the drawbar synth heidi has also shines on this track, and haha i dunno there's a lot to say and it's all circumstantial really, if you like this kind of stuff that i'm typing then it's great, but if you watch debut you'll see video of ean and me and kathy and joey and marc and wacky and that very controversial yeag-vah section of this song and that's all you need i think, haha.

track 7-11 writeups coming this week, tapos na yung album notes before the launch haha

-owel