Handuraw: Turns a new lift, Zarah launches open 'unravelling'

Handuraw turns two!

Yes, the Handuraw Events Café in Mabolo, identified as "artists haven" for having established itself not only as a significant venue for gigs and album launchings by independent Bisdak musicmakers but also for independent filmmakers, turned two years old last August 8.

Handuraw (Sugbuano for "the power to imagine") catered to guests from members of Cebu's tri-media, friends, families and relatives, visual artists, and bands, both budding and aspiring, who looked back at said venue as a jump-off point to the realization of a dream - to be heard, and noticed and seen for that "loud and proud sound of the Great South".

That night also saw the launch of Zarah Smith's and her band's album entitled "Unravelling". Zarah performed tracks lifted off from the album that speak of the many other stories, on both elegies and celebrations, she wants unwrapped as part of her 15-year journey in indie musicmaking, like "Love Is All Around", "Existence" and "So-Called Love" which she worked on in collaboration with cousin Gina Pestaño of Kahayag Café and keyboardist of local reggae band "Junior Kilat".