rakenrol

I miss the Philippine rock scene. It has been a long time since I posted something about OPM rock. And it was even an entry about farewell of one of the rock foundations of the industry. Come to think of it, I haven't seen a gig for almost 4 months already and I am super missing it.

Time to rekindle the passion.

What prompted this post is the the on-going promotion of an indie film entitled Rakenrol. It's a movie directed by Sir Diego Castillo and Quark Henares that revolves around the journey of Irene (Glaiza de Castro) and Odie (Jason Abalos) in putting up a band to initially share their music.

See above embedded trailer for a glimpse of the movie. It's quite an interesting piece with a little touch of love story on the side. I read somewhere that this has been in works for years so it's not surprising that I found the theme to be fitting an earlier point in the industry's timeline. But I'm glad the issue is being documented in this platform.

Currently, the landscape is being challenged by the left and right disbanding and rock stations reformatting. 2011 is really a hard time. Though rock music have moved online (i.e. DIG radio=), I admittedly haven't tuned in a single segment given the annoying sound lags and buffering. I hope they'll make a good fight in 2012.