Simon Coates compiles an annotated playlist to go with his report on Manila’s underground music scenes in The Wire 498Bayanihan. The Bayanihan thread runs through everyday life in the Philippines and – naturally – is an organic element of Manila’s sound art and experimental music scene. Here, she takes a cherished Pinoy love song beloved of her grandmother and gently coaxes it into a bouncing, choppy junglist ballad. A singer, actor, film producer and civil rights campaigner, Legaspi’s swooping, strings-led version of the song was recorded in 1980. Tarsius“Vagabond”From Vagabond(Tarsius) 2025With Diego Mapa on sampler and drums and Jay Gapasin on drums, Tarsius shapeshift their way across Manila’s underground music scene.