The musical base matter of Vigo are the songs of bandleader and pianist and vocalist Khavn De La Cruz.
And a little of that fierce romanticism that a life that ends before its time and as it’s cresting. The associations between the band and the man have to do with how both are proprietors of certain modes of ardor and certain modes of insanity. Vigo, the six member chamber jazz avant pop collective from Manila, take their name from Jean Vigo, the French filmmaker who died from tuberculosis in 1934 at age 29 leaving behind a mere two films. This is Khavn at his best, becoming a voice for the underdogs - the armless, legless, eyeless, toothless masses of Manila.ĭownload the entire album as a single ZIP FILE: (51.49 MB)ĭownload the individual files after the jump.
The remaining 28 minutes brings you on a documentary trip through the ugly underbelly of urban life by pitting lovelorn lyrics against stream-of-consciousness ramblings, slice-of-life vignettes of ugly characters against idyllic visions of a dream city, and syrupy love versus inexplicable anger. The album opener explains the schizophrenia of the entire project (and exposes the inconsistency of Manila as a city, in general) by juxtaposing tranquil bossanova with punk screamo. This is the 13-song soundtrack to the independent film “MONDOMANILA Or: How I Fixed My Hair After A Rather Long Journey,” featuring songs composed, performed and produced by the director Khavn De La Cruz with the help of electronica producer Malek Lopez and a handful of guest artists and co-writers: Rey Miyano (aka Ogo X) who wrote DROGA, Norman Wilwayco, Lourd De Veyra, Pennie Azarcon Dela Cruz, Junji Lerma (of Radioactive Sago Project) and Erwin Romulo and Mumuy-san played a bunch of guitar tracks Caliph8 helped out in the hippity-hop beats for DROGA.
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