Vic Omila, baritone, singing a setting of “Psalm 23”, also known as “The Lord is My Shepherd” composed by Nhick Ramiro Pacis. We recorded this in our old apartment, turning the closet into a recording booth. Why not: all the clothes in the closet acted as sound proofing and the result came out good!
Albert Hay Mallotte’s “The Lord’s Prayer” for piano and voice as recorded by Vic Omila, baritone and me on the piano. This is probably Mallotte’s most popular composition and the most popular version of all musical settings of this prayer.
Vic Omila sings “Ave Maria” by Johann Sebastian Bach and Charles Gounod with Nhick on the piano. No one knows how many times we had to do this number for church weddings! Written by in 1859, Gounod wrote the “Ave Maria” melody over Bach’s “Prelude No. 1 in C Major” from the Well-Tempered Klavier written over a century earlier.
Vic Omila sings “Aba Ginoong Maria” by Manuel V. Francisco, SJ with Nhick accompanying on the piano. This Tagalog version of the “Ave Maria” is probably one of the most haunting of the “Ave Maria” melodies I have ever heard!
“Kyrie Eleison, Christe Eleison” text experiment with Eastwest Quantum Leap Voices of the Apocalypse with other samples. This song turned out to be the credits track of the short film “A2B” by Chad Costen.
“Remembering Home” is a short, sentimental piano solo played on the old PMI Bosendorfer. I composed this tune one time I was feeling really home-sick and I wanted to go home.
Piano-violin arrangement of a Filipino folk tune of the same title using the Black Grand and a violin solo patch from Garritan Personal Orchestra. “Si Nanay Si Tatay” is a very popular folk song from Southern Luzon (Bicol), Philippines.
“My Loft” is an improvisation on the piano and recorded live. Another sentimental moment at my apartment back when I had my own.
“After We Said Goodnight” is a piano improvisation straight to recording. This was one of my sentimental moments where I wanted to make a music diary which proved too time-consuming.