pinikpikan

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A bit of our history:



It all started in 1989 at the first Baguio Arts Festival, Baguio City, home to many of the most renowned contemporary Filipino artists. After the Festival's opening, participating artists from Manila and the provinces had joined up with members of the Baguio Arts Guild for a dinner at the Cafe by the Ruins, Baguios homegrown cultural center. As they sat around the Caf's "dap-ay" (a circular rock installation found in the tribal villages of the Cordillera where elders hold their council and initiation rites), someone picked up a couple of pieces of pinewood meant for the fire raging at the centre. Another picked up some bamboo segments. Rum and beer bottles were used. So were covers of pots and pans. Rocks were pounded. Sticks flailed. A rhythm was born influenced by the traditional beats of the surrounding indigenous Igorots. The well known rock band The Blank joined in with lead and bass guitars. A keyboard was set up. Saxophones and flutes appeared. The indigenous Bisaya and Ilonggo contingents from the southern islands of the Philippines connected with their melodies. The music was called "Rock n Runo" (a reed found in the highlands similar to thin bamboo) as opposed to rock n roll. Visual artist and founding member of the Baguio arts Guild, Manong BenCab named it PINIKPIKAN.



From being a "jamming" group of visual and performance artists way back in 1989, Pinikpikan has now evolved into a formal music band that pioneers the world music scene in the Philippines. It is a multi-awarded band that fuses indigenous and modern music styles to create sounds and words that transcend categorization.



Pinikpikan has played in major venues and events all over the archipelago, and has also played outside the country, Singapore and Cambodia recently, to represent the best of world class Filipino world music.



The live performances are a treat to all the senses, awakening the good and wild spirits within you, and your surroundings. Intense, powerful, soulful, sensual.



Free the mind, feel the vibes, groove with the spirits. We invite you to experience Pinikpikan.



Our Music:

A very distinct musicality

that transcends the boundaries of SPIRITUALITY.

uplifts the SPIRIT and fuses TRIBAL lines all over the

ARCHIPELAGO to join forces.



The Philippines hits back at the western world of pop with Pinikpikan. Traditional rhythms and mountain sounds of the Philippine archipelago scream with raw chants, wild percussions and flaming rock grooves.



A rich brew of rhythmic and melodic patterns and vocal sounds musicality takes on a different level with intricate string and percussive instrumentations that defy boundaries and categorizations.



Pinikpikan experiments with ethnic and funk grooves. Melodies, chants and percussions diversify,sometimes in powerful unison, at other times in 'disharmonic' harmony.



Business Address:

Pinikpikan Band, Inc. 10th floor, GPL Building,

Gil Puyat Avenue, Makati City, Philippines



Telephones:

(63-2) 894-3811 Menchie Desipeda



(63)918-3025093

Carol Bello



Email:



pinikpikanband@yahoo.com



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