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Wednesday, October 25, 2017

2017 THE VOYAGE RETURNS

(A story by Stiff – Proprietor at Loudhouse Music Enterprise, lead vocalist of the Rockoustic Blues Experiment, gatekeeper of The Rizal Underground and a musical voyager to some of the most beautiful destinations of the World)

At press time, I checked to see that my last writing was March, 2015, some two & half lifetime’s ago it seems. I don’t have any excuses. Fast forward 2017. So far so good, went much farther in terms of accomplishments & destinations for sure – new band, new record, new destinations & some old and a brand new lease in life.


So let’s go back to 2015.  That started out quite nicely personally but musically insignificant -except for my very short stint doing lead vocals for TROPICAL DEPRESSION plus a few boring solo stints. Then 2016 kicked off really slow but started picking up in the summer time with stints in TUGUEGARAO, GENERAL SANTOS, BACOLOD, DAVAO & CORON, which provided the much needed inspiration to move on.


And so about a year ago today, I finally amassed the energy to form a band and christened it ROCKOUSTIC BLUES EXPERIMENT. Quite some time in the making actually, had been using the name since my early days in Boracay (Part 3 soon), 2009. This time, I fancied a 5-piece group with a keyboard-based playlist. We did gigs in and around metro manila until we hit a wall when one of the more prominent venues demanded recorded material from their performers and hence an album was conceived.


So at the start of 2017, I set out to produce this album and called it “IN-FLIGHT”, inspired in great part by the continuing journeys of this writer. After the release of the album, now available for streaming over Spotify and downloads on iTunes & Amazon, the band went on a rampage and staged a successful album promotional concert tour to the Visayas & North Luzon and to date, I’ve added BALER (a cool surfing destination) plus repeat gigs in SIARGAO, BORACAY & CORON to my HIT LIST!




Also this year, LOUDHOUSE MUSIC re-released “ALERT LEVEL”, that seminal 90’s compilation album featuring TROPICAL DEPRESSION COLOR IT RED, THE BREED & my favorite THE RIZAL UNDERGROUND, to celebrate my birthday to boot, with a really cool gig to celebrate the release at THE ROADHOUSE MANILA BAY. As of writing, the RIZAL UNDERGROUND has picked up a few gigs this year with a nice get together to celebrate the birthday of the twins plus a stint at the recently concluded 2017 DUTDUTAN TATTOO CONVENTION. I will be writing about these in separate blogs at a later time. I just wanted to catch up with my writing just to keep track of what has transpired since my last.




And some really exciting stuff coming soon, with the digital release of the music of the RUNAWAY BOYS on the LOUDHOUSE MUSIC ENTERPRISE Records pages & a brand new music video from the ROCKOUSTIC BLUES EXPERIMENT. Please stay tuned to this channel for the links to these pages and some upcoming blogs about the misadventures since 2015. 





In the meantime, you can follow, subscribe or like the following pages for more information:

ROCKOUSTIC BLUES EXPERIMENT     www.facebook.com/rockousticbluesexperiment
SPOTIFY (Rockoustic Blues)               https://open.spotify.com/artist/5mbwa7FDicMOyBi4nbWZPN
RIZAL UNDERGROUND                        www.facebook.com/therizalunderground/
SPOTIFY (Rizal Underground)            https://open.spotify.com/artist/3mFZCPFWmwWvAMdDLm8Y1G
TROPICAL DEPRESSION                      www.facebook.com/Tropical-Depression-157207667721/
LOUDHOUSE MUSIC                            www.facebook.com/Loudhouse
RUNAWAY BOYS                                   www.facebook.com/Runaway-Boys-745614888821131/?fref=ts
LOUDHOUSE MUSIC BLOGS                 http://bit.ly/1OKnJwU
YOUTUBE                                              http://bit.ly/2gSwsUq

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