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The Kuwagos album launch is this Saturday, February 20 at Fontana's Bar, NYC. 

Soulworks Records artists to debut “Lagi sa Kama” during release party at Fontana’s in NYC

Bergenfield–– The Filipino-American rock band The Kuwagos are scheduled to debut their second album, “Lagi sa Kama,” on Saturday, February 20 during a release party at Fontana’s Bar in New York City starting at 7 p.m.
 
In anticipation of the album’s release, the band, along with its record label Soulworks Records, will be giving away a very special EP download of re-mastered classic songs from their first album, self titled The Kuwagos, for free through their website www.thekuwagos.com on Friday, February 19 only.

“Everyone at Soulworks Records is very excited about this release by The Kuwagos,” said Ted Reyes, Soulworks’ President/CEO. “We are confident all their fans will be as pleased with this album as we are.”
 
The Kuwagos have also released the music video of its first single, also titled “Lagi sa Kama,” off the new album on its website and on YouTube (search Lagi sa Kama). The video was directed by Sheryl Garcia-Reyes.

New York - Los Angeles-based Fil-Am musician John Balicanta released a new instrumental EP on iTunes on February 1. Balicanta, formerly frontman of indie rock band Lola Ray, composed the entire score for playwrite Jonathan Goldberg's new play "Luck of the Ibis", for which the EP is named.

While Lola Ray is on an indefinite hiatus, Balicanta is taking this time to stretch his wings a bit with various projects, such as composing the all-instrumental score for "Luck of the Ibis", which is so rich in its depth and soaring in its magnitude. Balicanta really shows a flair for musical composition beyond the rock genre. Among his other projects are some new solo material and doing instrumentation for a few friends' bands.

Balicanta has also started his own music page to showcase his latest work. Please visit his <a href="http://www.myspace.com/johnbalicanta">myspace page</a> to preview a track, "Underwater Dance", from the new EP, as well as some recent songs.

Richard Baluyut (Photo by Feliza Mirasol)

NEW YORK—Versus frontman Richard Baluyut surprised fans and friends with a solo performance Wednesday night, January 20, at the “Mixer Reading & Music Series” held once a month at the Cake Shop on 152 Ludlow Street in Manhattan’s Lower East Side neighborhood.
 
Baluyut, armed with only his electric guitar and pages of his song lyrics, played a 5-song set that included material from his former San Francisco band Whysall Lane and his recently reformed New York band Versus.