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If you found this link, thank you for listening! To potential collaborators, thank you for being a part of this project and sharing your voice / critical view on these pieces.
These are still evolving demos and notes (clearly quite disorganized, but it is organized by track!) So I will be updating the embedded links as I work on new versions.
The project was started initially as a collection of demos I made last year while picking up guitar for the first time. After having gone through some of these demos late 2025, it started to dawn that there was a shared foundation that was connecting the demos: feelings of nostalgia, and also something haunting. It was also a lot more embodied (and as a friend called it ,“muscular”) than my other works.
The project eventually evolved into something for a new artist project, Santol 33 — named after a Santol tree that was in the front yard of my childhood home in the Philippines. The project evolved into a journey of revisiting ancestry, Filipino spirituality, fairy tale and folklore, animism, and my attempt at recalling hazy memories growing up in the Philippines before emigrating to the US in 2007.
Thank you for listening!
cherry blossoms (or balayong?) in ridgewood, april 2024
assembled from nature origin (santol tree)
cycles of death and rebirth, each rebirth gets further from the root, but the resonance and lifeforce are there (needs nourishment to survive and get re-attuned)
dream note vignettes
pollution and corruption of the tree (or was it already infected?)
dirt and dust as the purest form
rebirth of a coalesced tree or twined roots
araw/gabi
lushness and tumult
animism from the baseline consciousness, animism as a quality of the roots that comprise the tree
modern day animist
haunted moments