Hale's "Magkaibang Mundo" With Angel Locsin

CEBU, Philippines - After releasing commercially successful rock-pop blueprints of recent years, HALE is once again hitting the road with the fourth single “Magkaibang Mundo” culled from their latest album KUNDIMAN. The album also produced the singles "Bahay Kubo", "Kalesa,", "Harinawa", virtually ushering the comeback of chart-topping singles released under Polyeast Records.

The latest single continues to build on the band's signature style—atmospheric, pop-tinged melody and shimmering guitar riffs. The music video, directed by Nani Naguit, also features the lovely Angel Locsin. Hale's frontman and the latest single's songwriter Champ Lui Pio shares, “For this video, it was really a team effort. The team brainstormed and really helped each other build the whole video from story line, to cinematography, color grading, editing – everything. What makes this video special is the effort poured into it. You can really see and feel the passion the people put behind it.”

Champ continues, “Angel is truly an angel from heaven. To be honest, we were working on a limited budget for this video. She was gracious enough to appear on the video and do it for free. She was so involved and patient with us despite having to deal with obstacles during the shoot. Hands down to her! It was an experience that we will never forget.”

The song, "Magkaibang Mundo" is about “recollecting past memories and rekindling precious moments of a past love. Wondering what life would have been if fate had gone in a different path. The person struggles to move on and cannot deny the passion he has for the other,” as Champ claimed. "In the end, love prevails, hope will rise. But it might just be a little too late. ” Champ is nothing but thankful for Hale’s latest feat. He says, “For now, I'm just grateful for the experience shooting the video. I’m really, really happy with it. And I’m excited to share it to everyone.”

Hale began in 2005 with their self-titled album and gave us singles that won radio

stations' listener polls, bagged numerous awards and wowed Filipino crowd with their live performances all over the country. With the titles “The Day You Said Goodnight” and "Broken Sonnet,” Hale became popular and gave OPM a new light with their trademark of “melo-drama.” After releasing their triple platinum debut, their extraordinary development were also traced in three other critically acclaimed and award winning albums such as the gold record “Twilight” (2006), “Above, Over and Beyond” (2008) and “Kundiman” (2009). Hale are Champ Lui-Pio (Vocals), Sheldon Gellada (bass), Roll Martinez (guitars) and Pao Santiago (drums).

While Champ developed as a songwriter, he’s now establishing a parallel career as a solo artist. He is currently in studio recording his debut of his solo efforts, which will be out this October 2010. Champ is also busy doing his charity work with Treehouse Productions, a production made by OPM bands and artist for the benefit of other people and charities.

"Magkaibang Mundo" is the newest single from Hale and to vote for its music video on MYX, you can text MYX VOTE MAGKAIBANG MUNDO and send it to 2366. Meanwhile, the album KUNDIMAN is still available in CDs released under Polyeast Records.