"Repeat While Fading" Book Launch 01.28.09
Pinoy rock history will be rewritten at the sunrise of 2009 as poet-musician Aldus Santos, one of the most respected and sought-after rock critics today, unleashes his second book, “Repeat While Fading: Pinoy Rock Biographs.” Santos’s volume-the first of its kind since 1996’s “Punks, Poets, Poseurs” by Eric Caruncho-collects his best pieces culled from the past half-decade. Among the artists covered in the book are the Eraserheads, Rivermaya, Parokya ni Edgar, Wolfgang, and Sandwich, as well as relative newcomers Pupil, Markus Highway, and Peryodiko. Landmark pieces on legendary figures such as Joey “Pepe” Smith, Joey Ayala, and The Wuds’ Bobby Balingit are also highlighted. The book will also feature a foreword by fellow poet-musician Lourd Ernest de Veyra-also the frontman for the Radioactive Sago Project-who believes that Santos, apart from displaying “a tremendous sense of passion,” also “informs his work with intelligence and with a prose styling that is equally, commandingly musical.”
“Repeat While Fading: Pinoy Rock Biographs” by Aldus Santos: The Book Launch
DATE & TIME: January 28, 2009, 9PM
VENUE: Café saGuijo
PERFORMERS:
Pupil
Markus Highway
Rivermaya
Truefaith
The Wuds
Peryodiko
The Purplechickens
GATE: PhP200 (admission, with a free drink)
PhP500 (admission, with a discounted copy of “Repeat While Fading,” and a free drink)
[Autographs from the author and the anthologized bands all night long.]
The “Repeat While Fading” launch is brought to you by PULSE.ph, with Revolver Productions and Poppy & Plume Publishing, in cooperation with RJ Underground Radio 105.9, NU 107, PULP, and YOU.
Advance praise for Aldus Santos’s “Repeat While Fading: Pinoy Rock Biographs”
“[Aldus Santos] is that rarity: a whip-smart rock critic with the knowledge and chops of a musician and the soul of a poet. […] If you like reading about music in general and the local music scene in particular, this one’s for you, whoever you are.”
- Luis Katigbak
music columnist (“Luis Listens”); former Editor-in-Chief, PULSE.ph; Co-Founder/Reviews Editor, BURN
“Aldus Santos finds, piece after piece, the way to be the perfect observer and become, in a single rhythm, an insider and an outsider.”
- Marc Escalona Gaba
Publishing Editor, SPACEPHILIPPINES.com; author, “How Sound Becomes a Name”
“I could only wish to be as eloquent as Aldus Santos is when he writes about the music he is most passionate about. […] Trust me, it fucking rocks. Read this book, goddamn it.”
- Joey Dizon
Editor-in-Chief, PULP; guitarist, Skychurch/Intolerant
“Aldus Santos is my fave writer.”
- Ely Buendia
musician and songwriter
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