Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Gentle Universe at Expo Mom 2012, Rockwell Tent



We were invited by Janice Villanueva of Mommy Mundo to perform at Expo Mom 2012 at Rockwell tent on May 5, 2012. It was our second time to play for a Mommy Mundo event. The first was at Mercato Centrale for Mommy Milkshake 2011, a family-friendly run advocating breastfeeding. We love performing at Mommy Mundo events! Thanks for having us again!


Launched in 2008, Expo Mom is the "premier lifestyle event for moms in Manila. It is a trade expo, all-day workshop, shopping destination, mommy party, family occasion, mompreneur lab, all rolled into one."

Here are some photos taken by our friend Joy Dela Victoria. Thanks Joy!

The event was hosted by Patricia Bermudez-Hizon.

We were scheduled to open the event at 10:00 in the morning. It was touching to read the twit of Janice Villanueva of Mommy Mundo: "Morning blessings to all! @GentleUniverse welcomes all moms to #expomom2012 :)"

(Stanley Castelo, Valerie Faye Bautista, Cris Garcimo)

We played original ambient music for about 30 minutes. We also played our tracks "Saglit" and "Tree House Playroom".



Here is the video for "Tree House Playroom", which we projected as visuals while we were performing. Thanks Yen!

(Valerie Faye Bautista - toy piano, casio sk-1 and glockenspiel.)

(Stanley Castelo - toy piano, soft synths, shakers and melodica)

Shey and our son Dylan.

Stanley having fun. :-)

After our set, Shey, Dylan and I checked out the participating exhibitors and booths. We finally found Googoo & Gaga! We bought a cool shirt for Dylan. It was nice to meet Audrey Dimarucot, the mommy-in-charge for Googoo & Gaga. I told her that I met her husband AJ while he was still providing visuals for Morse. I've been a fan of AJ's works and designs ever since.

We also spotted Tiny Buds! I wrote about Tiny Buds last year after Shey discovered Tiny Buds Rice Baby Powder. It is a baby powder made from 100% real rice grains, biodegradable and hypoallergenic.

We also checked out the lovely photos from the STORK STUDIO

and the clothes for kids made of 100% Organic Cotton.

Mommy Matters is a shop that sells cool and interesting products for pregnancy, breastfeeding and parenting. http://www.shopmommymatters.com/

INDIGObaby promotes attachment parenting-breastfeeding, co-sleeping, babywearing and use of all natural products for mom, dads and babies.

We also listened to the discussions about parenting, including Family Congress' Maribel Dionisio and Maribel Aligbay talk about back to basic parenting in modern times. We learned a lot from the discussions. Congratulations to Mommy Mundo, all the exhibitors, guest speakers, organizers and sponsors of Expo Mom 2012. It was fun and enlightening! Hope to see you all again next year.

Thank you for visiting!

Truly yours,

Cris Garcimo
For Gentle Universe

For bookings and inquiries please e-mail
csgarcimo@gmail.com

PS. We stayed until 6 pm atExpoMom. Then, we proceed to Heima LRI to perform at the release of their summer collection. We will post more pictures soon. For news and updates subscribe to Gentle Universe Newsletter. Thanks!
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Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Gentle Universe at Heima Store

Hi! How are you? We're happy to share that we were booked to perform during Heima's "Oh Hi, Summertime Collection Release" at LRI Makati on May 5 at 8pm. It was fun! Hannah+Gabi, House of Hamsters and Karen also performed. The new collection was so lovely and colorful. Thanks Heima for having us!

We will post more photos soon. In the meantime, please check out this photo courtesy of Heima.



Please visit Heima's website: http://www.heimastore.com/.

Thank you!

Truly yours,

Cris Garcimo
For Gentle Universe
e-mail: csgarcimo@gmail.com

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Saturday, May 12, 2012

Happy Mother's Day!


Happy Mother's Day! From Gentle Universe.

Here is "Tree House Playroom". Music and Video by Gentle Universe.

Truly yours,

Cris Garcimo
For Gentle Universe
e-mail: csgarcimo@gmail.com

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Thursday, May 10, 2012

Gentle Universe performed at Greenbelt Fashion Walk 2012

Hi! We would like to share some photos taken during Greenbelt Fashion Walk 2012.We were booked to perform original ambient music for Style Origin on April 20, 2012 at 4 pm in the afternoon.

Style Origin is where clothing brands from Ayala Malls presented their latest collections. It was fun! The show was directed by Ariel Lozada of Not Enough Circuses. Direk Ariel said that he liked our music. Thank you Direk Ariel!

The fashion walk was staged at Greenbelt 5.Add Image

Host Borgy Manotoc.


We performed after the fashion walk for kids. So cute! It was also nice to see kids on the runway with their parents.

(L to R: Stan, Valerie, Cris and Shant)

Here is a photo while we were playing. We played with guest musician Shant Verdun (percussionist from Baguio) for about 30 minutes while models were walking on the ramp for different clothing brands at Ayala Malls like Springfield, Anne Klein, Swatch, Mango and Collezione.


Lady models for easy casual.


Phil and James Younghusband of football team Azkals also participated in the fashion walk wearing Collezione. Go Azkals!


Here is our set up for the event.


We were asked to perform with Shant Verdum, percussionist from Baguio City. Shant brought a bamboo xylophone and nice little harp.

My son Dylan came with us who found time to play at Glorietta while were still setting up on stage.



Dylan with a statue of a Carabao at Greenbelt. Carabao is the national animal of the Philippines.

Ayala Mall and Not Enough Circuses are so nice! They provided an air conditioned dressing room/holding area backstage for Gentle Universe even we didn't ask for it in our contract rider. Thank you! We really appreciate it.



Dylan inside our dressing room and holding area.


Bobby Balingit (The Wuds, Juan Isip and Planeta ng mga Ngiti) and Shant Verdun also played after us at around 6 PM. It was a magical moment!


Mensweek featured Filipino top designers Sassa Jimenez, Randy Ortiz and Joey Samson.


Special thanks to Ana and Mark from Not Enough Circuses!

Ana of Not Enough Circuses.

Mark, music head for not Enough Enough Circuses.


Mark took a footage of little girl dancing during our set. It is always nice to see little kids enjoying our music. Thanks Mark for the footage!

Thanks again to Direk Ariel Lozada, Ana, Mark, Maggie and all the wonderful people at Not Enough Circuses, Ayala Mall, Greenbelt, videographer Mischa Elman and all our friends who went to the show. Thank you! Cheers! :-)

Thanks for visiting!

Truly yours,

Cris Garcimo
For Gentle Universe

e-mail: csgarcimo@gmail.com

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