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Humanfolk

HUMANFOLK
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Background information
Origin United States, Philippines
Genres World music
Years active 2008-present
Labels MCA Music Inc. (Philippines)
Associated acts Johnny Alegre AFFINITY, Rubber Inc, Cambio, Eheads, Fuseboxx, Electric Kulintang
Members Founders:
Johnny Alegre, Susie Ibarra, Cynthia Alexander, Roberto Juan Rodriguez, Malek Lopez, Abby Clutario
Current members:
Johnny Alegre, Abby Clutario, Kris Gorra Dancel, Rodney Vidanes, Zach Lucero, Deej Rodriguez

HUMANFOLK is the musical collaboration and concept band of guitarist-composer Johnny Alegre with the New York–based Fil-Am percussionist Susie Ibarra and her husband, drummer Roberto Juan Rodriguez, together with the multi-instrumentalist Cynthia Alexander and the electronica exponent Malek Lopez. This collective is a pioneering effort marking the convergence in a contemporary Philippine setting of multiple musical idioms (jazz, rock, electronic music, kulintang, agung and indigenous percussion, with Iberian and folk music influences). The group's name is a deliberate conjoining of the words "human" and "folk", akin to "menfolk" and "womenfolk", without prejudice to gender and frequently set in all caps to distinguish it from a dictionary term.

The band started as a collaboration of musicians in the summer of 2008. The introduction of Alegre, Ibarra and Rodriguez at the United States Embassy in Manila spurred a series of musical and social interactions. The impetus culminated in the recording sessions for the "Humanfolk Suite", a world music cycle composed by Alegre, for which Alexander and Lopez completed the HUMANFOLK quintet. Towards October 2008, the threesome of Alegre, Alexander and Lopez performed a live semi-improvised score for a short, silent film by Sasha Palomares, entitled Une Femme Andalouse, which was awarded the KODAK Best 16 mm Experimental Film in that year by the Kodak Filmschool Competition. They were subsequently invited to perform at the 4th Philippine International Jazz & Arts Festival in February 2009, and a live collaborative performance with the Australian didgeridoo virtuoso William Barton in January 2010, that also introduced vocalist-keyboardist Abby Clutario as a new principal member of the group. These appearances and many others that followed led to the release by MCA Music (Universal Music Group) of Humanfolk's eponymous album in May 2011.


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