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Chris Trinidad: Chris Trinidad y Canción Tagalog

by Chris M. Slawecki
April 24, 2021

The quiet beauty of Chris Trinidad y Cancion Tagalog illustrates the subtleties between volume, power and intensity. The musician credits on its inner jacket list instruments with quite curious names, including three types of bata drums (okonkolo, itotele and iya) plus bombo and guagua among the percussion instruments, and with bandurria and octavina among the stringed and strummed ones. But the strangely quiet, beautiful music these instruments render sounds so much more meaningful than the strange ...