Posted in Behind the Music on 18 November 2007
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This is part 7 of an 11-part series. Guile takes a whimsical journey down memory lane, retracing the bumpy pseudo-pathways that led to the final version of Hastang’s current tracks.
The song that features the Mystery Chord. It’s right in the second pre-chorus, barely audible. We don’t really know what chord it is. Gaw, Galen and […]
Posted in Behind the Music on 13 November 2007
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This is part 6 of an 11-part series. Guile takes a whimsical journey down memory lane, retracing the bumpy pseudo-pathways that led to the final version of Hastang’s current tracks.
This song went through two rejected incarnations before its final version. First rejected incarnation: an up-tempo rendition that was too new wave for its own good, […]
Posted in Behind the Music on 13 November 2007
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This is part 5 of an 11-part series. Guile takes a whimsical journey down memory lane, retracing the bumpy pseudo-pathways that led to the final version of Hastang’s current tracks.
Gaw actually did some blues licks on the verse parts but ultimately, we decided to take them out to give more focus to the vocals.
Originally, […]
Posted in Behind the Music on 28 October 2007
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This is part 4 of an 11-part series. Guile takes a whimsical journey down memory lane, retracing the bumpy pseudo-pathways that led to the final version of Hastang’s current tracks.
Another song from the Squirrel Talk days with haunting lyrics written by Yan. Mark came up with a vocal melody using an E minor and D […]
Posted in Behind the Music on 28 October 2007
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This is part 3 of an 11-part series. Guile takes a whimsical journey down memory lane, retracing the bumpy pseudo-pathways that led to the final version of Hastang’s current tracks.
Among the songs in the album, this was the first we recorded in Galen’s Phoenix Glide Studio. We found ourselves very, very happy with the end […]
Posted in Behind the Music on 26 October 2007
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This is part 2 of an 11-part series. Guile takes a whimsical journey down memory lane, retracing the bumpy pseudo-pathways that led to the final version of Hastang’s current tracks.
We had done our homework — we were content with the arrangements for the verse and chorus parts — but somehow, the transition between second chorus […]
Posted in Behind the Music on 25 October 2007
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This is part 1 of an 11-part series. Guile takes a whimsical journey down memory lane, retracing the bumpy pseudo-pathways that led to the final version of Hastang’s current tracks.
The version you’re hearing today isn’t the first one. Back in the Squirrel Talk days, Murray Suson took master lyricist Yan’s lyrics (based on a poem […]
Posted in Hastang News on 24 September 2007
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It’s been a long time since we posted anything here in our blog and in our mailing list. But we want to let you know that Hastang is still very much active (although admittedly busy with other things these days).
Yes, mga bai, our plans for releasing the debut album are still a go. Yeah, […]
