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Vigo: Manilanimal

by Khavn

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Shoot The Pianist 03:19
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shoot the pianist / dont have to worry no one will catch you / in time shoot the pianist / what’s the matter? where’s the water / in the sand? shoot the pianist / help the sick & the poor kill your neighbor / if you can shoot the pianist / and everyone else but everyone’s left / you’re right bang bang / bullets on the loose bang bang / who’s gonna lose? bang bang / the piano’s on fire bang bang bang / i’m going home shoot the pianist / catch the culprit down the stairs / stuck in your arm shoot the pianist / cast the mongoose who’s gonna help you / in dire dire dire need? bang bang / waste bullets in the air bang bang / ballet soon be over bang bang / before i change my aim bang bang / if you only had 2 brains bang bang / bullets on the loose bang bang / who’s gonna lose choose ooze? bang bang / the piano’s on fire bang bang bang bang bang bang / i’m going home so shoot em up / so shoot me now / so shoot
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The Last Commandment 04:23
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VERSE 1: There is something about you I don’t know where to start Dumb as an ox, waiting for the rain That never comes, never goes away VERSE 2 There is something about you Where have you been all my life? Seems I’m late, but I’ve got nowhere to go I’m crippled you see, blind as a bat CHORUS 1: Thou shalt not fall in love. Thou shalt not fall in love. VERSE 3: There is something about you Your eyes that speak in the dark Told me everything there is to know It’s no one’s fault, it’s just the way it is CHORUS 2: Thou shalt not fall in love. Thou shalt not fall in love. BRIDGE: It’s the last commandment Of the broken heart It’s the most useless commandment No one heeds it No one hears it CHORUS 3: Thou shalt not fall in love. Thou shalt not fall in love.
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Where Are You, My River? 09:41
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REFRAIN 1: Where are you, my river? (4x) VERSE 1: Why did your love quickly die? Didn’t you swear You’ll always be there / to cherish me? Cherish only me / Until death Forever / But where is that pledge? REFRAIN 2: Where are you, my river? (4x) VERSE 2: How can you suffer / that I suffer? How can you bear / that I’m all alone? I look for you / in my memory Everywhere / I look for you Where are your words: / “I am your happiness”? I am now lonely / Coz I can’t see you. CHORUS: My river / remember Even though you’ve drowned / All your promises My life won’t disappear / not completely: My love for you / will always remain. Remember / my river My river / remember My life won’t disappear / not completely My love for you / will always remain CODA: Where are you my river? (4x)

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"Manilanimal" is not Jean Vigo's fifth film.

Vigo is a six member chamber-jazz avant-rock collective from Manila who take their name from Jean Vigo, the French filmmaker who died from tuberculosis in 1934 at age 29 leaving behind a slim filmography that despite comprising a mere two films—L’Atalante and Zero For Conduct—blazed a trail through cinematic history. 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. Love and lunacy. And a little of that fierce romanticism that a life that ends before its time and as its cresting.

The musical base matter of Vigo are the songs of bandleader and pianist and vocalist Khavn. Part inversions of kundiman, the Filipino equivalent of chanson, and part modern day pop balladry, it is the sticky melancholia of these songs that become the primordial muck for Vigo’s new adventures in hi-fi. But it is the dynamic created by the coming together of these six disparate musicians and disciplines that make it come to flesh. Bassist Simon Tan and drummer Paolo Manuel bring a freeform, playful looseness to the rhythm section. Guitarist Kakoy Legaspi subverts the role of the guitar as flourish and backbone teasing new forms from familiar structures. And the wild cards of soundscaper Caliph8 and female vocalist Tao Aves, thicken the atmosphere with an otherworldly presence. As a collective, Vigo filter Khavn’s old-fashioned broken-heart-on-sleeve pop sentiment through a sieve of jazz sextet smoke, chamber pop noir and glitchpop trickery into a mode of hurt and desire that catches fire as the brief life of the man they stole their name from.

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released May 4, 2020

Khavn on piano and vox
Tao Aves on vox
Kakoy Legaspi on guitars
Francis de Veyra & Simon Tan on bass
Caliph8 on sampler, turntables, drum machine
Paolo Manuel on drums

All songs composed, written, & produced by Khavn

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Khavn Manila, Philippines

Awards: Best Music - Urian;
Best Original Song - Famas

Since his introduction to the music of long-dead white men at age 6, Khavn has done many things to pianos: set them ablaze, cut them with axes, played them for 13 hours straight. In his hands, pianos become versatile mediums of violence and tenderness that produce label-defying compositions — not exactly avant or pop; not quite jazz or punk. ... more

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