“No
Water, No Moon,” the new album from Bamboo Mañalac
to
be released in the market on Sunday, November 20th under PolyEast Records
Here, according to a press release, is the abbreviated story of Bamboo Mañalac's fab comeback:
Good
music never ends and one great artist never stops. Just one spin of the most
anticipated album in OPM rock this year, “No Water, No Moon," Bamboo Mañalac's
first solo release under PolyEast Records, and it's clear there is life beyond
his career as frontman. “Nothing’s
changed. It’s the same pressure that I’ve always put on myself. Whether in a
band or going out on my own, or whatever I do. Just wanting to push, claw and
climb,” Mañalac said in an interview.
Manalac’s debut album will be released in the market on 20
November by Polyeast Records. Produced and compositions by Mañalac himself, the
album preceded by the lead single “Questions”
which debuted the radio stations nationwide last Sept. 22 accompanied by a
music video co-direction with Treb Monteras III.
“Questions” however gave
us a glimpse of the polished-pop direction Mañalac’s music is heading-- towards
on-trend synth chord progressions with cascading backup strings. “Questions”
according to Mañalac, “I felt this was a
good intro to the album because it has a lot of colors and instrumentation that
we have in the album in just one song. The song is personal but I thought it
spoke of human experience.”
Mañalac
continued sharing his thoughts about the album title, “It’s a Japanese Koan. Something I’ve read from time to time over the
years. I never thought of it as a album title but when it came down to choosing
one and basing it on the general tone and sound of the album and what the koan
meant for me. It just fit with the album’s concept”.
The release includes such
songs as “In Shadow”, “Please”, “Morning Rose”, “Back on my Feet”, “Spin”, “In
This Life”, “Down the Line”, “All Hail the Fool”, “The Only Way”, “Just
Go” and a bonus track and only Tagalog song in the album “Ikot ng Mundo.”
“The songs just draw from my own personal church of music. The stuff I
sit around listening to. So I see this album as homage to my favourites. The
idea was to still continue doing what I enjoyed when I was with a band. Some songs have an element of hearing
it again for the first time because of what the other players brought to the
pot”.
Paving
his own name from a band’s frontman to a solo act, is no easy feat. That did not stop Mañalac’s ambitious resolve to conjure up a new
and eclectic set. Teamed with some of the top musicians in the
music industry like Ria Osorio, Kakoy Legaspi, Jun Jun Regalado, Bong Gonzales
and Simon Tan, he presents his musical visions as he says, “I wanted to find a
chemistry between the players that made me feel like we’ve been playing
together as a band for years. So the process was longer than usual from my
experience and we hit a snag or two along the way.”
As Mañalac goes back to
what he’s known for, he’s also back with depth and personal nature of his
lyrics, coupled with his cool, smooth voice and brilliantly adept song writing
capabilities. Mañalac, who produced and wrote most of the songs, has been in
the US US like New York City
and California to Canada US
Mañalac’s infusion of
rock, pop, jazz and bluegrass melodies along with a 12-piece orchestra to create a collection of
hypnotic, genre-bending material shows renewed confidence from musician
unafraid to stride beyond industry expectations.
“It’s a restart. The whole process from start to finish was different
from all the years I’ve been doing this. It was just great to relearn a lot of
the stuff and get that joy back again, “Mañalac shared.
"No Water, No Moon" tracklisting:
1. " In Shadow"
2. "Please"
3. "Morning Rose"
4. "Back on my Feet"
5. Questions
6. "Spin"
7. "In This Life"
8. "Down the Line"
9. "All Hail the Fool"
10. "The Only Way"
11. "Just Go"
12. Ikot ng Mundo
(Bonus Track)
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