“The beauty of every place in the world is its own culture” – Kadangyan
The Ifugao term Kadangyan means Rich in Culture. This particular group specializes in ethno-tribal rock music, likewise plays in an acoustic set-up, provides natural ambient music and performs different kinds of Filipino native rituals on different venues and special occasions.
The band is composed of visual and performing artists who shared the same passion and advocacy. After a few performances and positive feedbacks from the audiences, they have received several invitations from different event organizers and then on they started entering the mainstream.
The band was officially formed on the month of October way back year 2000 in Cebu City, with members coming from Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao. The group is composed of Bhava Mitra (vocals), Agit (bass), Saryo (drums), Bhakta Raja (high percussions) and Govinda (main percussions).
A fusion of different Filipino traditional beats with an element of today’s modern music using indigenous instruments which were mostly hand made and adding up the modern drums and bass guitar thus producing a distinctive Kadangyan sound and music. Ever since, the group wants to implement this kind of music to the society. They want to promote the appreciation of the Filipinos to the Philippine ethnic music and revive the vanishing Philippine culture. With their passion in this craft, they also wanted to show their concern to the environment and humanism.
In 2002, the band released their first independent album. Included in the ten tracks CD is the song “Kaluluwa” which is a universal soul chant and a call for rain. Aside from the Ms. Earth competition, the group has performed in events such as “Sarap to sundown”, “Octoberfest 2004” in Mindanao and Fete dela Musique 04-07 in Manila. Currently, they are working on their next album.
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