Talahib People's Music

 

Talahib Live at SM MOA, Pasay City

 

Spidey leads everyday heroes in Earth Hour campaign. Philippine Star. Sun, 30 Mar 2014 08:56:15 -0700. Performers included Talahib band, Rocksteady, LED man, fire dancers and the Marching Band of SM MOA in light suits...

 

 

TALAHIB at Denmark  (Click here to view link)

 

Talahib. Noun. A wild but soft grass leaving wounds to one’s skin when exposed and scratched to it.Talahib plays world music with added influences of folk, reggae, blues, jazz, alternative, kundiman, and other local and tribal languages. Its soft spoken personality and their socially and environmentally relevant songs visualize the true colors of Filipinos specially that of the indigenous people. World music here in the Philippines has grown to become a worldwide cultural expression. Talahib has vowed to continue its legacy and their message in using music as a vehicle to teach, uplift, and inspire. Thus, they crafted a 10-track album entitled “Talahib: Mga Awit ng Pag-Ibig at Digmaan”(Songs of Love and war), inspired by their indigenous roots and influenced with dance, rock, reggae, and blues music. This album is the heartbeat of the people. It is filled with social commentary, reflections on life, musings on systematic corruption, a call to love, unity and hope, raising of positivism and Filipino consciousness, repatriation, teaching self-reliance, and of course - rejoicing the blessings of life.

 

MUSIC REVIEW: (Click here to view link)

‘Talahib’, grass that grows on you

By AYA YUSON

July 14, 2012 2:24pm

 

Truth be told, we were given this “Talahib album: Mga Awit ng Pag-ibig at Digmaan” to review more than a month ago, but upon realizing that it's of an ethnic rock flavor, we've been shying away from writing about it, for fear that our jazz snob sensibilities might come to the fore and hold sway, and as a result, bash this band unfairly.So we chose to marinate our ears in this music for around a month, live with the album, so to speak, and give the music a chance to grow on us and win us over.Talahib album cover: Art Direction by Max S. Baluyot; additional artworks by AG Saño "Dolphins Love Freedom"; Iggy Rodriguez "Forsaken Dreams"; Ianne Borillo "Bagyo"; and Ronald Castillo Malate "Worldmusic".“Pag-ibig ang Pag-asa” is a cute little ditty with a shopworn but no less valuable a message. Given just a dash more gravitas, it might evolve from being a cute little ditty into being a pretty little ditty.In our spectrum of musical values, "cute" is the most trivial, most frivolous of accolades. Having said that, however, we hasten to add that Talahib's performance on this tune is competent and professional, with the rhythm section playing with good time and a solid groove, the vocals in tune and infectiously fun.“Bugaw” seems, on the surface, to be a throwback to both 70's era “Lolita Carbon” and Spanish-era kundiman. The guitar work on this tune is laudable— with banshee-like wails and pithy wah wah flourishes— as is the drumming, with its precocious percussive rim-shot punctuations.Repeated listening reveals a song with deceptive depth and more angles than are apparent at first listen....

 

 

Baybayin, Buhayin: Talahib People's Music Lingayen GIG (Click here to view link)

by: Jec Chua-Roberto

 

Ali bata. Oh, come on. I just can't believe how reality can destroy all the things you believed in all your life. I agree with the speaker in the First Baybayin Summit when he said that we need to throw all our primary school text books into fire since it teaches us the wrong stuff about our roots.

How cool can it be to have our very own writing characters? It's like turning this country into a mystery land and have all the outsiders confused in a beautiful way. Maybe, it could have been a better icon of our identity. Maybe, the way I write my name won't be as typical/common as it sounds. Maybe, we can delete those maybes I just said. 

I know and I believe. Our very own Baybayin still have a chance.
 

Talahib (n) serenaded the Baybayin enthusiasts on the 2nd night of the said event. They are the reason why I was able to join this cause and got my eyes opened. I was lurking at the back of the stage lights as I try to capture the best moments of their set when I saw people dancing and feeling every beat of the music the band makes. They grow wild to a tune the mainstream radio doesn't even recognize. I heard one woman intoxicated by the music say she found her self in Talahib's melody. I was in awe hearing this in a place where you least expect it. Like the Baybayin, the original flavor of our own music also got lost in time. But, I am happy. They are not gone forever. We can still find them. Scarce. Limited. And like a rare gem -priceless. And I belong to the very few who have them.