Adventures in Music Part 2

A few days after watching the Ateneo Sesquicentennial Festival of Music, I was lucky enoough to watch Bukas Palad's album launch. Granted they're no Sarah Geronimo in terms of popularity, BP should not be stranger to many of us since they basically sung and wrote half of the songs we sing in mass.

Basically I watched the concert with the same people. And yes, I'm an idiot when it comes to having my picture taken.

Gesu is all dressed up for Christmas.

BP has been known for songs that leaned towards being more upbeat and pop than your regular church music. Proof: they have videos where they dance around Luneta in colorful clothing to match their music.

This time around To Love and to Serve is an album of chants. As in the songs have a stanza or two of lyrics which is repeated throughout the whole song. This concept threatened to alienate BPs solid fanbase who had gotten used to their kind of music.

But lo and behold, BP pulled it off once more. True that the songs had lyrics repeated over 20 times throughout the whole song, but the melody and beat were catchy enough not to induce comma. In fact the repetition of lines added a different flavor to their music, somehow making them more inspiring and hearfelt. Ang kulit kasi. And with lyrics like these, who wouldn't be inspired?

In omnibus amare. (In everything, love.)
In omnibus servire. (In everything, serve.)
In ominibus amare et servire Domino.
In everything, love and serve the Lord!

BP also sang their more popular songs with matching choreography and costume changes.


And here's ma'am Rica!