Benson the Python

my pet snake, benson the python after having shed his skin gets really hungry and gobbles up 4 mice one after the other. This is actually the first time we've ever seen him eat as he is usually shy eating out in public. i even think that he was still hungry but i can't give him anymore since i only asked my security officer to buy 5 mice and we gave out one to benson's brother out back.

under your shade...

there is a cloud-covered moon that I see tonight...
sort of reminds me of my life...

In 1996, I started work on a 4th album called under your shade. I finished the album two years later. The title cut, is a song that never seem to die in my mind... I've done a lot of versions of it and I'm still contemplating on more.

Here's the studio version... with a jazz feel into it.

http://www.garageband.com/mp3player?|pe1|S8LTM0LdsaSjYle-a2s

Here's part of a live set I did with Jun San Pedro and Jun Domingo in Pasig City

http://www.garageband.com/mp3player?|pe1|S8LTM0LdsaSjYle_YmA

This was alone day in the office and as I picked up the guitar, it was the song i strummed....

mica villarosa - sober

My daughter's cover of the P!nk song "Sober".

Alamat - Panaginip

words and music by Ivan Scott Mariano

this is the 6th cut that we've recorded so far....

A Fraction of Each

Here's a fraction of each of the songs including the track numbers and all of the just-finished BLACK PIPE album. A better teaser than the last one... the video is from their pictorial. Enjoy!

BLACK PIPE -- araw at ulap

L-R Joey Pamiloza (drums), August Gamo (vocals / bass), Casie Villarosa (record producer & engineer) and Kenneth Ryan Tutor (guitars) before completion of the final album line up at the Sunset Studios

black pipe
araw at ulap (demo album)

august gamo bass/vocals
kenneth tutor guitars
joey pamiloza drums

all songs written by

august gamo & kenneth ryan tutor
except nandito lng ako by casie villarosa

recorded at the
sunset recording studio
amazing records

center for philippine arts and cultural association entertainment, inc
manila film center, ccp complex, pasay city

produced by
casie villarosa

engineered by
casie villarosa

photography by
santos soriano

cover / album design by
casie villarosa

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the feeling is absolutely great! Now the longer march to find a label begins...

mica villarosa - that's just the way we roll (cover)

my daughter bugged me yesterday to go to the office since she had no plans for the weekend so after much pleading I gave in. after doing the usual hoola-baloos routine, we recorded this song late in the evening and inserted a few animation experiments in the music video.

in all honesty, a father should cherish days when their children wants to hang around with them because that might not be the case a couple of years down the road.