BLACK PIPE -- araw at ulap poster designs

DONE!

L-R Joey Pamiloza (drums), August Gamo (vocals / bass), Casie Villarosa (record producer & engineer) and Kenneth Ryan Tutor (guitars) before completion of the final album line up at the Sunset Studios

black pipe
araw at ulap (demo album)

august gamo bass/vocals
kenneth tutor guitars
joey pamiloza drums

all songs written by

august gamo & kenneth ryan tutor
except nandito lng ako by casie villarosa

recorded at the
sunset recording studio
amazing records

center for philippine arts and cultural association entertainment, inc
manila film center, ccp complex, pasay city

produced by
casie villarosa

engineered by
casie villarosa

photography by
santos soriano

cover / album design by
casie villarosa

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the feeling is absolutely great! Now the longer march to find a label begins...

Araw Gabi

words by August Gamo
music by Ryan Kenneth Tutor
produced, engineered and video by Casie Villarosa

It's not a music video, it's a simple documentation of August laying down the vocal track for the cut.

BLACK PIPE from my perspective

so we are half way into laying down the vocal tracks for the cuts in BLACK PIPE's debut demo album. This video is just to present the band from my perspective as to my involvement with them as producer, mentor and recording engineer. good luck guys!

coming soon

BLACK PIPE's debut album is coming soon...



recorded at AMAZING RECORDING STUDIOS
produced & engineered by Casie Villarosa

BLACK PIPE turns 3-piece

Like in the most usual of cases... Black Pipe has re-arranged themselves and decides to stick it our for now as a three-piece band. I am not exactly that comfortable with the idea that there is no real front man leading the band on stage but I respect their decision and hopefully time will allow them to better judge their situation or totally cope and adapt withe the new set up.

Which ever way, I am here to support them.

At the moment, they are done recording about more than half their material for their demo debut and we've done some live tests on some of their songs which hopefully will attract attention from their regular crowd.

Black Pipe - Nandito Lang Ako

Black Pipe finally visits me in my office and make good on their word that they'll record a song I wrote for them a couple of years back, "nandito lang ako" and it would hopefully be the start of the long overdue album I've been wanting them to have.

I didn't mind that I had to cancel a dental appointment, it was fun engineering for them and seeing the song come together. This is still a work in progress as you can see and I am hoping that the more they play original music, the sooner the band chemistry would come out and figure out the image and genre that's for them.

So below is the actual recording session in my office last Sunday. We patched the three instruments direct to the Fostex X-18 mixer straight to my sound card. For convenience, we decided to use my Yamaha DD65 drum kit. This recording also baptized my new (my wife's birthday gift)Greg Bennett Royale.

Additional tracks were later dubbed, the ad lib part and the other rhythm guitar for a fatter sound. With the Black Pipe down to three, August sings the song and Joey's girlfriend did the backing tracks.

I repeat... it is a work in progress.



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