Standard songs are defined as masterpieces that are so popular, they have endured through time. Naturally though, they don’t always figure into young people’s playlist. When I heard that a local artist released an album of standards, I fell into contemplating the mysteries of the cosmos. Shouldn’t this artist with an old spirit have been born seven decades earlier?
At thirty, Mark Bautista is at the prime of his youth, and in the age of YouTube where some of the more popular fare include an impertinent man who dances like a horse, a possessed diva who keeps on forgetting to wear pants and a misguided young boy who repeats four lines of lyrics indefinitely as if he’d forgotten the rest of the lyrics of his hit song, shouldn’t Mark be pandering to the desires of the masses?
But therein lies his appeal. I’m going to buy his album and it’ll be among the few oddities in my otherwise angst-ridden music collection because I like supporting artists who have the courage to take the risk to stay true to their spirit regardless of what the times say they should do.
Of course, that’s not the only reason I’m buying The Sound of Love. Mark’s ethereal voice is the perfect cure for all sorts of mental maladies such as, but not limited to, seeing dead people, hearing voices and imagining being stuck forever in the pits of workstation (a.k.a. cubicle) hell.
Mark’s voice is better than Prozac, Valium and San Miguel Beer.
Mark Bautista’s The Sound of Love Album Song List
Click here to get The Sound of Love songs on iTunes or grab his album at record bars nationwide.
You can also get his other albums on iTunes.