MP3 Ric Manrique Jr. - Ric Manrique Jr. sings Ilocano Songs

A Collection of of folk songs from the Ilocos region in the Philippines recorded by the kundiman master Ric Manrique Jr. under the direction of Leopoldo Silos Jr.

12 MP3 Songs in this album (31:56) !
Related styles: WORLD: Asian, WORLD: Island



Details:
Between sea and a sierra of mountains, between the blue belt of the China sea and the green undulations of the Cordillera mountain series, between this sea-coast with one of the countryâs magnificent white-foamed beaches clustered with giant ancient boulders and this range of mountains lush with legends,flora and fauna â is this land. A hard land of farmers and warriors as history accounts it for us.
The land is Ilocandia â a region of about 8 provincial divisions unified by a single language. The Ilocano, one of the 7 principal Philippine dialects.

Ric Manrique Jr. takes on the notes and nuances of the Ilocano rhythm . Indeed, a reason to sing the songs of a hardy people in a rugged realm of land caught between the beauty of a sea and the bounty of mountain chain.
For even if the now kundiman master Ric Manrique Jr. is all but Ilocano, as long as it is music, folk music, created with whole sincerity and sentiments by generations in the Ilocano land, it is then a beauty and majesty of sound that can be interpreted by a singer who can sing with his whole sincerity and sentiments. Let Ric take you to the memories of this North land where music too is an industry as tobacco, pottery, jewelry and basi wines.