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| Walk Down the Road | |
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| Live album by Cynthia Alexander | |
| Released | 2009 (Philippines) |
| Genre | Alternative, folk rock |
| Label | independent |
Walk Down the Road is the first live album by independent Filipino singer-songwriter Cynthia Alexander released in 2009. It features her longtime Joey Ayala at ang Bagong Lumad colleague Mlou Matute on piano, darbouka, backing vocals and kulintang; along with jazz bassist Simon Tan, young drummer Rickson Ruiz, and the Indian musician, Charanjit Wasu, on tabla and dhol.
Cynthia Alexander is a guitarist and singer-songwriter originally from the Philippines. She has performed on many international stages including the Rainforest World Music Festival in Malaysia, the Jack Daniel's World Music Tour in Singapore and the Southeast Asian Night Market Festival in New Zealand. She also played gongs and bass on world tours with Joey Ayala at ang Bagong Lumad.
Joey Ayala is a Filipino singer, songwriter and former chairman of the music committee of the National Commission for Culture and the Arts. He is well known for his style of music that combines the sounds of Filipino ethnic instruments with modern pop music.
Kulintang is a modern term for an ancient instrumental form of music composed on a row of small, horizontally laid gongs that function melodically, accompanied by larger, suspended gongs and drums. As part of the larger gong-chime culture of Southeast Asia, kulintang music ensembles have been playing for many centuries in regions of the Eastern Indonesia, the Southern Philippines, Eastern Malaysia, Brunei and Timor, Kulintang evolved from a simple native signaling tradition, and developed into its present form with the incorporation of knobbed gongs from Sunda. Its importance stems from its association with the indigenous cultures that inhabited these islands prior to the influences of Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, Christianity or the West, making Kulintang the most developed tradition of Southeast Asian archaic gong-chime ensembles.