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Andy Alviz will do anything for his native Pampanga.Alviz is a director, writer, choreographer, composer, dancer and later, also a singer. He got his big break when he became the resident choreographer of Miss Saigon Asia. He could have kept doing this for years or moved on to other shows. Instead he went home, pulled up all his stakes in the city to live in a farm. Then he organized the ArtiSta. Rita and Teatru ImaARti theater companies. These exposed Kapampangan culture to its widest audience ever. Andy put together a choir and moved to recording and did Kapampangans proud by putting all those folk songs and new works on discs and preserved for posterity. He later formed a label with friends that they named Q&A Productions. He made different songs with different styles. And now his newest project is Kapampangan music but arranged bossa nova style. Pampanga's Best Bossa, which Andy produced for Q&A Productions, is a fascinating mix of folk songs and new works. It is not all difficult to connect with the songs in the album because of the bossa arrangements. Truth to tell, the amazing is how familiar melodies like O Kaka and Singsing easily adapted themselves into the Latin rhythm. Now Alviz, has his piece entitled Bossa Pampanga, which features almost similar song line-up but interpreted by Various Artists. Among these are O Kaka by Pot Romero; Dalumdum Ning Bengi by Jumbo Tayag; Inyang Malati Ku by Ging Pineda; Malagung Kakung Palsintan by Jonas David; O Patag A Bunduk by Izza; and Atsing Rusing by Joe Velez. [via philstar.com]
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