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By Gilianne Kathryn L. Gantuangco
Special to The Manila Times
We are currently in the midst of
a Cebuano musical invasion. Urban Dub, Jr. Kilat, Sheila and the
Insects, Faspitch, Ambassadors and Cueshe are just some of the band
that have continued to dominate the nations’ airwaves or earn the
accolades of critics the past few years.
And the prodigious overflow of
talent from the island in the South shows no signs of abating.
Renowned for world-class artistry, Cebuano bands are also
responsible for many local English songs indistinguishable from
foreign ones—understandable since Tagalog is not their lingua
franca. But now, there’s an album that gathers some of Cebu’s
most promising bands that is proudly in Visayan and is adamantly
nationalistic. It’s bisrock (Visayan rock) that’s maayo kaayo.
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