By: Gelo Gonzales
Novel and inspired, Noel Cabangon’s new album Byahe is packaged in a way that we don’t see every day. Taking the place of the usual CD album inlay are six postcards, chronicling the revered musician’s travels in and around of Denmark. The postcards appear to have been taken candidly, showing Mr. Cabangon in various states of walking, relaxing, or contemplating, sometimes with his instrument, and sometimes just by his lonesome self. The scenes are similar to the inlay of his older records, really, except here—as stated in one of the postcards’ back—the musician is in Denmark.
In the section where artists write off their greetings and thanks to families, friends, and to the One Up Above, Mr. Cabangon muses: “Ang mga awitin dito ay bahagi ng aking byahe.”
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