Patrick Darroles Tirano, best known simply as "Pat Tirano", is a Filipino musician and, notably, an

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and

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. He plays music with numerous acts in the Philippine music scene, including Monkeyspank, Archipelago, Soaked in Scissors, and TOI. As a producer, his most notable works include albums by

Sponge Cola Sponge Cola (sometimes spelled Spongecola) is a Filipino rock band formed in 2002. The band is composed of Yael Yuzon on vocals and guitars, Gosh Dilay on bass, Armo Armovit on guitars and drummer Tedmark Cruz. One of the most popular rock bands ...

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, Cover Me Quick!, and

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Beautiful Machines ''Beautiful Machines'' (2005) is the debut album of the Pinoy rock band, Pupil. It was released on November 10, 2005 under Sony BMG, the same music company that publishes the Eraserheads' music. The band itself describes their music as "dark, l ...

"'' album, for which he was nominated as "Producer of the Year" in the 2006

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TOI and other projects

In 2007, Patrick Tirano, singer/writer/host Pauline Diaz, and interior designer/visual artist, Mei Tayengco collaborated to form the project TOI, calling it a "plaything created by three minds". Tayengco acted as manager, Tirano did

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s and Diaz supplied the

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. Writer Gabrielle De La Rama-Talan, called TOI's music "''a compelling, strange and heady mix of blues and jazz.''" All of the duo's collaboration efforts took place in Wombworks, a record studio founded by bassist

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, where TOI recorded the album ''"Fortune's Fool"'' Tirano and Diaz eventually got Salamin

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Miks Bersales and drummer Archie Asistores, and became Toi's "The Goonies". The foursome began to draw the attention of indie fans, while playing actively in local bars like Route 196, Saguijo, Magnet, and 70s Bistro. Soon, the new band recorded a live session at Wombworks aptly called ''"Toi and The Goonies Live @ The Womb"''. In 2008, Tirano became busy engineering and producing

's third record. He is also still currently working with his bands Monkeyspank, TOI and Archipelago in doing other producing stints.http://amp.channelv.com/amp/viewArtist.html;jsessionid=D982AEFF49973504F00BB57943DC638F?id=29953

References

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