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Friday Night Pier Party is set with Joey |
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A New York-based Muslim-Filipino ethnomusicologist once said that if Joey Ayala didn't exist, we'd have to invent him. |
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The landscape of Philippine pop culture would indeed be very different without this unusual entertainer - a composer-lyricist-performer, a multi-instrumentalist and arranger, a storyteller and stand-up comic, a poet-philosopher and occasional magazine columnist. |
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Ever since he released a makeshift-studio album in 1982 his underground following has grown from cult to mainstream proportions. His latest album Lupa't Langit (Heaven and Earth) is the fifth of his commercial over-the-counter productions since and he is currently making a mark in the MTV and website communities. |
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Known primarily for his contemporary use of indigenous instruments, his concerts actually contain a broad range of elements: electric guitar and brass gongs, bass guitar and two-stringed hegalong, drum kit and 8-piece kulintang, roots-inflected rock & roll, reggae, plaintive kundiman and trance chant, all strung together with a sometimes-comic, sometimes-philosophical, always-ecological flair for continuity. |
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He has over the years been able to touch base with audiences in Japan, India, Canada and the USA. Although most of his songs are in Pilipino, Ayala is quite at home with non-Filipino audiences, interspersing pieces with clear introductions to song content and instrumentation - in English. |
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The diversity of his talents and cultural contributions have been recognized by an equally diverse field of institutions and entities - Ayala has received awards from the Philippine Association of the Recording Industry, the Philippine Jaycees, the National Commission for the Philippine Language, the Concerned Women of the Philippines, the (literary) Palanca Memorial Awards Foundation, the Gerry Roxas (leadership) Foundation, the Ateneo University (of Manila and Davao City, both), and DZNU - a leading rock radio station, among others. |
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Album titles: Panganay ng Umaga (Firstborn of the Morning), Magkabilaan (Dichotomies), Mga awit ng Tanod-lupa (Songs of the Earth-Guardian), Lumad sa S�yudad (Urban Native), Lupa�t Langit (Heaven and Earth). |
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Organik - It's Joey Ayala's latest and most inviting yet exclusive recording, especially for you (kababayan, kalahi, kasama, kapatid, ka-pusod, ka-likas-an) who are living outside the archipelago. |
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