The last week of June, up to the first few weeks of July, saw me busy with the album recordings of Mishka Adams. Mishka is a kindred spirit in music, as well as a distant cousin and a good friend of mine. She started singing jazz here in the Philippines, but moved to London and is now based there. Aside from jazz gigs, she is an active educator and voice teacher.

I felt very fortunate to be working on this project. I arranged three tunes for her album, and played piano for ten of the recordings. Since playing jazz piano is not my full-time job nowadays, I consider it as a blessed sideline, a glorified hobby. (And it keeps me up at night too, after a full day of arranging)

The album will be a UK release, although I heard it will be also released in the Philippines (probably next year).


Mishka and me






Simon Tan on bass







Edgar Avenir: guitarist and arranger





Mar Dizon on drums












Joey Quirino, guest pianist



Shinji Tanaka. Recording engineer, audio engineer and owner of Sound Creation Studios





Hope I get more gigs like these!!

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Here’s a station ID from ABS CBN, perfect for the rainy season. This was arranged by Mike Villegas. I wrote the string parts. Enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzoIX_CrjDs

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