Pantayo

Pantayo​ explores what’s possible for contemporary kulintang music with the atonal blend of kulintang ensemble instruments with vocals and electronic production. The album features eight diverse songs speaking to Pantayo’s musical influences as queer diasporic Filipinas. Produced by Yamantaka // Sonic Titan’s alaska B, ​Pantayo​ was written and recorded from 2016-2019 in Toronto.

The innovative Toronto kulintang ensemble’s debut album is a hybrid of traditional Philippine gongs, electronic production, and Western pop influences.

Pantayo are a group of Filipina-Canadian women whose unique merging of kulintang music with lo-fi punk, electronic, R&B, and other facets of pop creates a powerful and truly original sound.

Pantayo's self-titled debut album is a feast of relaxed synth, '80s pop ballad melodies, and the solemn ringing of their kulintang ensemble....