Before the month of April came to an end, I got a message from my cousin K-Jah informing me about the good news. He’ll be spitting on the mic to Afrika Bambaataa’s beat and he got extra passes to the Manila Music Festival. When I first read the text message, I was like “da fuuuuck!?” (yes in my mind I spelled it “da”). But yeah, I wasn’t dreaming or imagining things, it is happening. In this lifetime.
Manila Music Festival boasts an awesome
lineup of foreign and local artists including Kjwan, Wilabaliw, Razorback,
Similar Objects, June Marieezy, Sino Sikat? Ali Shaheed Muhammad of A Tribe
Called Quest, Cultural Icon Afrika Bambaataa, Shinichi Osawa and many others.
We got to hang out and meet new friends at the festival, which is one of the
reasons why we came. Shout outs to Protégé, Medmessiah and Clifford of Dos
Fuertes, Joel Ellorin, J-Hoon, Julie De Borja, Los Magno of Sari-Sarisounds! Reli De
Vera and Nikki Cabardo of Sino Sikat? Chaya Claver, Francis Magat of Wilabaliw,
our new friend from Paris Audrey Noeltner, Jorge (Similar objects), Roman
(Fuego), Wilderness boys, Luis Gutierrez and everyone we bumped into, peace!
This blogger and our drummer Jed were
a tad too lucky to have VIP wristbands courtesy of Andy Tonda. Thank you benevolent,
merciful being! We got to hang out where Solenn Heussaff hung out, blaze up near the sea with some of the most excellent musicians in the scene, and get our selves photographed with Hip Hop legends Afrika Bam and Ali Shaheed. Our aim that night was to catch most of the artists lined-up, which
was impossible because there were two stages. We tried though, and we got high
with the endless flow of music. Me and K-Jah were supposed to write a longer
blog but since we got quite a lot of photos, I decided to keep it short and
perhaps feature K-Jah sometime next month as guest blogger. Till next!
More mediocre quality photos to be uploaded in my fb account (hahaha mediocre, just being honest yo)
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