The advocacy to use our country’s native form of writing has indeed gathered a broad following. This time from a band that advocates socially relevant Filipino music: the band Pordalab.
Written and sung by Karl Ramirez and Boogs Villareal and performed with musicians Burn Belacho and Yohan “Yohi” Palis, the song Baybayin Buhayin is one fun and beautiful tune encouraging people to study and use native Filipino scripts such as Baybayin.
The song was recorded at the CStudio, produced by the Pordalab Creative Collective in cooperation with Musika Publiko and Baybayin Buhayin.
In the past years, the band Pordalab has been in collaboration with Baybayin advocates and designers and has in fact incorporated the use of the script into their band logo and some music videos.
Just in time for the Baybayin Buhayin 2.0 conference in May 2019, the song is this music collective’s contribution for the broadening of support to advocates of Baybayin and many other native form of writing in the country, and of course for the blooming of Philippine arts, culture, literature.
The song is free to use and downloaded for educational and non-commercial use. The song will also be on online music platforms and various digital distribution sites soon.
