For Bamboo, Tomorrow Becomes Yesterday

As one of Pinoy rock’s leading acts nowadays, this band has worked on reinventing itself at every turn to stay on top. This is the motivating force behind Bamboo’s release of another hit-making album—their fourth CD under EMI Phils—entitled TOMORROW BECOMES YESTERDAY. Its kick-off track “Kailan,” the song that doesn’t depart from massive anthemic singles like “Noypi,” “Hallelujah” and their version of Buklod’s “Tatsulok.” The new album is now available in stores to give you the much-awaited all-original songs from Bamboo.

Tomorrow Becomes Yesterday, Bamboo’s latest album released under EMI Philippines boasts the first single “Kailan” which every hopeful Filipino wouldn’t forget. It is poised to become one of the hits of the year. “Kailan” is currently hitting the airwaves and slowly catching its phase to the top of the radio charts same with music channels from Kailan’s performance music video directed by Pancho Esguerra (Tatsulok, Probinsyana, So Far Away) which is now on MYX Daily’s number one seat after two weeks. Tomorrow Becomes Yesterday hit the market just recently and now garnered Platinum record in sales selling more than 30,000 copies since its market release.

This 10-track album was recorded for two months at Tracks Studio in Pasig with the award-winning sound engineer Angee Rozul. Meanwhile, Bamboo’s latest offering was mastered at the Threshold Sound and Vision in Santa Monica USA. Threshold Sound and Vision has hosted many artists with their album’s post production and some film projects of the biggest names in music history like the rock band Weezer, singer-songwriter Amy Kuney, BB King etc.

From the front man himself, “Everyone should have their own personal interpretation. I’d like people to inject their own feelings and experiences into the songs,” Bamboo Manalac shares. The songs range from a very classic Bamboo fare of anthemic but hopeful ”Kalayaan”; to soft rock overtones of “Blown Away”; to “Little Child” where the album title was taken from; to melancholy feel of “Nobody Knows”; to “Last Days On A Cruise Ship”; to calming melody of “24/7”; to funky “Wake Up Call”; to Tagalog love-but-rock song “Muli” that illustrates the band’s dynamic passion; and to guitar-heavy “Looking Out for Number One”.

Since Bamboo emerged in 2004 with a bracing brand of hard and guitar-oriented Pinoy rock and stirred Pinoy listener’s pride and hope with their lyrics—their albums have followed a pattern. The first, “As The Music Plays” (Double Platinum) and second album, “Light Peace Love” (Platinum) have produced roaring anthems that the nation has always been proud of.

To revisit the influential album that thrust this quartet onto the international scene, Light Peace Love was released in South East Asia and sent off to Malaysia and Indonesia through EMI Music International. Its Tagalog songs replaced with three English cuts from the first album—namely “Mr. Clay,” “As the Music Plays the Band” and “War of Hearts and Minds”. Their third and critically acclaimed album, We Stand Alone Together contained remakes of Buklod’s Tatsulok and Anak Bayan’s Probinsiyana and garnered more than 10,000 albums sold since its release in 2007.

Counting to their fifth year in the rock scene, the band still remains their sonic trademark of monumental angst of Bamboo Mañalac’s voice; the driving pulse of Nathan Azarcon’s bass and Ira Cruz’s guitars; and powered anger of Vic Mercado’s drums. For a band that’s always specialized in anthemic hits, larger-than-life gestures—a band utterly determined to be important—Tomorrow Becomes Yesterday could be the big one, and that’s precisely what it sounds like.