More Filipino compositions

24 February 2013

            Two posts ago, I wrote about the Filipino performer Borromeo Lou and included some links to my rough recordings of a few of his compositions.

 

“Jazz Electrico”

            This is a fox-trot composed by Francisco Buencamino probably published in Manila around 1922.

“Moro Nights”

            This is a slow fox trot composed by S. S. Suarez in Manila in 1919.

“Tristezas”

            This is a piece by Amelia Hilado from Manila, 1920, labeled a “Filipino Fox-Trot.”

“Ylonga Mia”

            This is a habanera by Borromeo Lou probably from some time in the late 1920s. Like foxtrots, tangos/habaneras were very common during this decade.