“Vocalese” Launch A Great Success!

Traffic was heavy, the anti-ConAss rally was brewing, and people were running late, but there was no stopping the success of the “Vocalese (Poems)” launch held on December 12, 2006 at Conspiracy Bar. By 8:30 pm, the venue was jam-packed with friends, fans, and poetry enthusiasts.

There was poetry reading, great musical performances, and overflowing love and support.

Readers included Easy Fagela, Khavn dela Cruz, and Paul Catiang.

Musician friends who performed were Outerhope, Vin Dancel, and Cynthia Alexander.

Marco Harder, guitarist for The Purplechickens, hosted the event.

Watch out for the upcoming book tour coming to your nearest bar or bookstore.

More photos at http://launch.ph.groups.yahoo.com/group/thepurplechickens/photos/browse/bc91. This link will take you to The Purplechickens yahoogroups. You need to be signed in to Yahoo! to view the pictures.

    

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“Turn Turn Turn” Interviews Aldus Santos

Check out this first-ever interview of Aldus Santos on his first poetry book “Vocalese” at http://turn3.blogspot.com/2006/12/aldus-santos-launches-vocalese.html.

Turn Turn Turn is an online commentary on our current life, times and multi-cultures. They are based in Manila, Philippines.

Here’s an excerpt from the interview:

We talk to Aldus Santos, poet, music critic and lead vocalist of The Purplechickens, about his upcoming collection entitled Vocalese. We swear, writers should be interviewed more.

Why did it take you so long to publish your first book of poetry?
Since around eight to ten years ago, I’ve always had enough poems to come up with a (haphazard) volume. However, I’ve only recently developed the habit of (or preference for) working in “projects.” The old poems read like apples and oranges; Vocalese, meanwhile, is an organic whole, which makes publishing it more justified (and more desirable, I’m thinking). Also, when “indie” became plausible—around the same time my band launched its debut—I started entertaining the possibility of doing it with books. In short, it took this long because I wanted to be in control. Likhanan, Inc. (not to be confused with UP’s Likhaan), a not-for-profit organization of creatives, was kind enough to help me out with institutionalizing the project, so to speak. And, also, yeah, rock-and-roll kind of lured me away. Ha-ha.