New Music on Soulworks Digital Music Store

SINCE the Soulworks Records Digital Music Store (www.soulworksrecords.com) was put up a month ago, many Filipino and Filipino-American music fans have purchased their favorite local music there.
Initially, the store offered releases by Soulworks artists like Bleud, The Kuwagos, and the Happy Analogues. Now, even non-Soulworks artists are selling their music on the site.

This week, the store will sell two new releases: Lost Poetics’ EP Running in My Veins, and the 10th anniversary re-issue of the cult classic Shindig by The Freesouls.

Lost Poetics is one of the most promising Fil-Am bands based in Chicago, and their EP proves the point. Six beautifully crafted tunes tell of the band’s virtuosity and musical prowess.  All the songs are winners: Break Me, Broken Promises, Gillian’s Lullaby, Inside of me, Don’t Let Go, and Second Crusade.

Fans can purchase the whole album or individual tracks using their credit cards via the secure and industry standard online payment system, Paypal. Single song downloads are only for $0.75.

Meanwhile, the Freesouls are re-issuing their seminal Mersey-sound Pinoy rock debut called Shindig. The album was originally recorded in 1996 and released in 1997 by BMG Records, and has become an album that influenced many bands in the same genre.
Many critics and Pinoy rock fans have testified that even before Orange and Lemons, or The Bloomfields, The Freesouls were there.

The Freesouls spearheaded the retro movement in the mid-nineties with their British invasion sound and retro get up. They were the original Pinoy group that sported mop tops, corduroys and turtle necks during in a time when The Eraserheads ruled the airwaves.

Now, that important debut album that spurned the hit single Shindig is being re0issued after undergoing through re-mastering. The Shindig re-issue was re-mastered here in the US using the original master from the 1996 recordings.

As a bonus to underground fans of the band, two new songs from ex-Freesouls members are included: Ugoy by Couch, whose members, André Laurena and Jeff Antiporda played drums and bass, respectively for the Freesouls.
Another song is The Happy Analogues’ End Notes, penned by ex-Freesouls guitarist and vocalist Ted Reyes.

Though the Souls disbanded in 2000, there are many online fans clamoring for a Shindig Re-issue as well as the release of their shelved 2nd album for BMG.
The supposed second album is called Flowers for the Soul and has a solid number of hits never before heard by the public.
As of this time, Soulworks announced that Flowers for the Soul is being re-mastered and  will be released on CD, vinyl and also available for digital download very soon.
Flowers for the Soul was shelved by BMG for an undisclosed reason in 1999, which resulted in the band’s demise.

Shindig: Re-Mastered is available on the Soulworks Digital Music Store for $0.75 per track. Full album purchase is also available with a digital album sleeve.

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