Humanfolk
Sign in to saveHUMANFOLK began as a concept album of guitarist-composer Johnny Alegre with the multi-instrumentalist Cynthia Alexander and the electronica exponent Malek Lopez, along with visiting New York City–based participating artists; namely drummer Roberto Juan Rodriguez and percussionist Susie Ibarra. The pioneering effort marked the convergence in a contemporary Philippine setting of multiple musical idioms (jazz, rock, electronic music, kulintang, agung and indigenous percussion, with Iberian and folk music influences). The group's name is a deliberate conjoining of the words "human" and "folk", aki
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12 sectionsContents
- History
- Personnel
- Eponymous 1st album
- Mark II
- Mark III
- Mark IV
- Mark V
- Discography
- Videography
- Awards
- References
- External links
HUMANFOLK began as a concept album of guitarist-composer Johnny Alegre with the multi-instrumentalist Cynthia Alexander and the electronica exponent Malek Lopez, along with visiting New York City–based participating artists; namely drummer Roberto Juan Rodriguez and percussionist Susie Ibarra. The pioneering effort marked the convergence in a contemporary Philippine setting of multiple musical idioms (jazz, rock, electronic music, kulintang, agung and indigenous percussion, with Iberian and folk music influences). The group's name is a deliberate conjoining of the words "human" and "folk", akin to "menfolk" and "womenfolk", without prejudice to gender and frequently set in all caps to distinguish it from a dictionary term, that evolved afterwards into a concept band.
==History==
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