Thank you so much, Team Manila Lifestyle and Daily Grind Clothing, for supporting us! :)

GUYS GUYS GUYS the new music video for our song “ANO” is OUT!!!!!!!! Check it out!!!! Credits below, directed by genius Bagane!

ANO by Jad Montenegro
band JAD MONTENEGRO, DAVE IBAO , PJOE SABANPAN, KHUKO LUZADA
direction & videography BAGANE FIOLA
thanks JOHN AMOR, MANDY VELASCO, MAKI SERAPIO, WRAP METING, GLEB DE PIO, AILLYN DADULLA
thanks STUDIOBUGSY, TSUNAMIX, DURIAN BAR, SA’LESS DINER & MOOZIKA, LIONS REGGAE BAR & PLATE, AIDX PAREDES

studiobugsy.net
jadmontenegro.com

ANO by Jad Montenegro (teaser) from studiobugsy on Vimeo.

ANO by Jad Montenegro (teaser)

band
JAD MONTENEGRO
DAVE IBAO
PJOE SABANPAN
KHUKO LUZADA

direction & videography
BAGANE FIOLA

thanks
JOHN AMOR
MANDY VELASCO
MAKI SERAPIO
WRAP METING
GLEB DE PIO
AILLYN DADULLA

thanks
STUDIOBUGSY
TSUNAMIX
DURIAN BAR
SA’LESS DINER & MOOZIKA
LIONS REGGAE BAR & PLATE
AIDX PAREDES

studiobugsy.net
jadmontenegro.com

Hey guys! All tracks for our EP have been recorded. We’re releasing it very soon! Here’s the second song off our EP, called The Backyard!

Check out the first song we released called Ano, here: http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=2446098507909
It’s also on the site, just scroll down!

Many many thanks to everyone who helped us with our tracks. Our EP is living proof that musicians in Davao help each other out! ♥ Special mentions: Dave (of course, for being our master producer), Maki, JR, and Paulo Castillo and Paulo Claudio for all the encouragement and support!

P.S. Our tracks are still undergoing final processing, which is why this is a preview and not the final product. Hope you like it anyway!

Many many thanks to everyone who helped us with our tracks. Our EP is living proof that musicians in Davao help each other out! ♥

Special mentions: Dave (of course, for being our master producer), Maki, JR, and Paulo Castillo and Paulo Claudio for all the encouragement and support!

Thank you to everyone who listened to my band, liked my songs, and gave me the strength I needed to produce this album. You are all my inspiration and I love being a musician because of my amazing listeners! Thank you!

ANO – JAD MONTENEGRO – EP TEASER

AUGUST 16, 2011

We went to a mountain resort today, the band and I, to shoot videos for our upcoming EP launch. We are releasing it next month! :)

The resort belongs to our friend Karlo, who is the sound engineer and keyboardist of our other band, Polar Depth. So, we went, and we told the guard we were his friends, and with that power, being friends of Karlo, better than any authoritative I.D., we set off to find a suitable spot to shoot.

Pjoe and I arrived ahead of Dave, and while waiting for him we had the brilliant (but highly predictable) idea to camwhore.

After which Pjoe discovered an old, authentic airplane.

Dave finally arrived, and we set off for the resort cafe. The boys set upon performing some sort of mysterious sorcery upon the video camera, involving copious amounts of tape and incoherent mutterings.

After which they went out to discuss some very important matters involving a certain pretty girl who would be viewed in much better perspective from the railing.

I haven’t any more photos as we went to shoot videos after that.

Before we left my house, however, my husband was able to snap a shot of all three of us.

I’m very excited for the videos! I have a very good feeling about them. :)

AUGUST 17, 2011

I got some pretty cool shots today with my Canon Ixus 130. I tweaked the curves just a tiny bit in Photoshop, but otherwise nothing else was changed. The light was very bad that day, but I thought I’d take advantage of it and just focus on the scenery.

I managed to take a shot of Dave and Pjoe down a hill.

We also found a big old tree with enormous roots and branches and sat underneath it. We were very respectful.

We found some cool fir trees, but by then the light was leaving very fast, so we snapped some quick shots and got this:

(I took off my shoes and felt the earth underneath my feet.)

I think those shots were pretty cool.

Here are some dumb ones we took with a timer and a tripod, when the light was still decent.

I found this one outtake particularly funny – Dave had the brilliant idea to lie down… not realizing his head would be on the downward slope.

He spent the next 10 minutes complaining that his neck was killing him. Lol.

I always have fun hanging out with my bandmates. They’re not only my fellow musicians, they’re my good, great, spectacular friends!

I did the tracks with some noise/distort samples from Ableton, a few electronic piano ones from JamStudio, as well as cleaning up the reverb, adding distorts and delays, and the vocals in Cool Edit Pro. Lol, talk about software overload. I use all three and love them all!

Here is the video, which can also be found on Bagsy’s tumblr:

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T H E  D R E A M C H E Y S E R
model CHEYSER PEDREGOSA

music JAD MONTENEGRO-AMOR

production design BAGANE FIOLA, CHEYSER PEDREGOSA, ABI BELISARIO

photographer ANGEL GO

director/videographer/editor BAGANE FIOLA

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That aside, another video I did the musical scoring for is this short ad for Alchemy of Vision and Light, directed by my good friend Marky, starring… well, me!

I totally did the music for this on my phone. Haha! I love that it is almost impossible to find a way NOT to make music these days!

]]> http://jadmontenegro.com/2011/06/30/musical-scoring-dream-chaser-obsessions-and-more/feed/ 0 http://jadmontenegro.com/2011/06/01/recordin/ http://jadmontenegro.com/2011/06/01/recordin/#comments Tue, 31 May 2011 20:41:41 +0000 jadmontenegro http://jadmontenegro.com/?p=907 We’ve been spending the past few weeks holed up in my house, tuning out the regular world, zoning out while listening to the same notes over and over again, eating greasy takeout and making wonderful, wonderful music.

Making music is really hard and challenging sometimes, but in the end it’s all worth it, especially if you’re making it with good, talented friends and sharing it with awesome people.

Fighto!

Polar Depth from last night’s gig. Awesome shot by Isabelle Aniga.