This video couldn’t have come at a better time. At one TED x Diliman talk, musician Joey Ayala shares his rendition of the national anthem. “This is an illegal act,” he deadpans, later explaining that playing with songs are just one of his exercises as a musician. He points out a few important things: the awkward phrasing, the melodramatic ending that could have possibly given us a psychological damage, how the current anthem is actually a rigid march when in fact Filipinos are a very soft and accomodating people. He changes the time signature from a march to a 6/8 and the result is beautiful.
WHERE THE MAGIC HAPPENS: 4:29 when Joey Ayala begins to sing the song in full.
