PRESS RELEASE
After having their recently successful album tour last month at Lim Ket Kai Mall, Thoughts And Notions returns once again to Lim Ket Kai Mall this saturday, july 8, 4pm at the Mall's rotunda. While they rocked the crowd last month, this time they'll be performing with an acoustic set showing their slow and intimate side. Witness their acoustic renditions of My Love Song, Earthbound Angel, and other songs from their debut album Thoughts And Notions: In Awe of His Amazing Love, as well as various well loved covers of the decade. This Kagayanon band is slowly contributing their part in making CDO local bands be heard in the country and for the promotion of the local music scene. After all, CDO is not scarce on musical talents. As what Thoughts And Notions and other CDO bands have proven. Their album is now available nationwide under Praise Music with House of Praise branches here at Lim Ket Kai Mall, Gaisano Mall, SM CDO, and at Musicvision and Maan Video and Sounds. You can request their song Earthbound Angel thru Sandy101.5, 89.3 Killerbee, 96.9 Love Radio, 94.3 Wild FM, and 103.3 the New J. Or Visit their site at www.purevolume.com/thoughtsandnotions to hear their songs and for contacts and bookings.
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The band rarely plays in acoustic sets back then. Because the main focus was to perform the songs live exactly as how it sounds like in the album. Now, 15 years later, it would seem that as we got older, the musical tastes of our peers also had gotten old with us. In the past two months, I've been aggressively promoting the old album in my social media accounts. Reaching out to old and new friends, sharing this 2006 recording. The most common reactions I get is that they are surprised that the music sounds loud and upbeat. Contrary to what they were expecting that as a Christian Band, our songs would be more mellow and solemn. Instead of lulling them to sleep, it raises their spirits to rock out with the songs. Older people also tend to prefer to listen to more mellow songs. Another common reactions we get is that our vocalist, Thrina, sounds so young and that her voice has not matured to adulthood yet. I think most of the listeners overlook the fact that Thrina was only 15 years old when we did this recording. Far from being a woman. Just on the cusp of adolescence. I think I just wasn't able to highlight to the listeners the fact that this was already a very old recording. So my fault there. But I remember back then, these were not an issue as the band played live on stage in various gigs and concerts. The band basically played to the college crowd. Our audience was younger. So yeah, the band blended in with them just fine. And a 15 year old Thrina as a recording artist with an album released nationwide under her belt was a prestige not every 15 year old could easily have. But times have changed. And we've decided to change with it.
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| John on Vocals with Thrina |
The band was never really a part of the recordings. As the story was told in the previous entries. So I thought maybe now that we are planning to re-record the songs, I could regroup the band and do a new recording of the first album. Maybe it is time to update the 2006 album, in such a way that our grown up listeners would be able to appreciate the songs now as some of them have before. And I thought, we'll do an acoustic recording instead. Repurpose some lyrics to make the songs more worshipful and less vague as the original recording was. Make it more solemn. Give Thrina a chance to update the songs with her more mature voice. And most importantly, give John Fernandez an opportunity to showcase his talent in arranging the songs that suits the current times. The plan is to get the band involved in the new recordings. But geographical issues will be a huge challenge. So I don't know who's in yet. But I installed John as the project manager for the new recordings. In fact, he was already able to finish one song, A Brand New Day, which was supposed to be released this New Year. But time constraints prevented us to finish the song on time. An initial edit was already done, but John is still perfecting it. So the release of the song and the acoustic album would be pushed back to maybe second quarter of next year. I'm actually excited for it. Not only will Thrina and John be involved, we also got Doris Bangot (our second bassist after Alvin Carreon) to record as a guest vocalist in one of the songs. So that's probably something to look forward to. And I'm glad to share this to you, our loyal readers. But for the meantime, while waiting for the new recordings to be released, let me share to you again the first album that started everything for us. The journey of a 15 year old kid (Thrina). Two long time friends and music fans (Wilbert and Me) who are opposite in some way but bonded on the common love for Music and the desire to serve God. And the unity of the three of us that started this little band from Cagayan de Oro called Thoughts And Notions. Check out our debut album in the Spotify Player below (you'll have to go to the Spotify App on Desktop or download the IOS or Android app to access the full album.)
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