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Last August 21, 2005, Wilfrid Andrew “Wolfmann” Hernandez passed away at the very young age of 28 due to aneurysm. The musician was a pioneer in his own right; an electronica artist who was on the verge of opening thelocal scene on electronic music, mixing it with an aggressive rock flavor that borders on the concept of organized chaos. His signature song “Piniritong Dalagang Bukid” from his second indie release Diner featuring Sugarfree lead vocalist Ebe Dancel peaked at number two in rock station NU 107’s weekly countdown. He was also a staunch supporter for the independent music scene, believing that a lot of independent artists can get mainstream success if only the system presents more opportunities for them.

His sudden departure was met with a lot of grief not only in the local electronica scene, but in the local rock scene as well. But before he passed away, he did leave a band composed of Whannie Dellosa on drums, former Eraserhead and current The Dawn/Cambio bassist Buddy Zabala, Kathy Menesses of Daydream Cycle and Dancel as lead vocalists. Wilf also left a number of demo recordings of new songs enough to fill a new album. A song entitled “Para” was submitted to NU107 and ended up #56 on NU’s 2006 yearend countdown.

This gives way to the new independently released self-titled album of Wolfmann+ - an album comprised of 16 cuts with Wolfmann’s last batch of songs recreated with faithfulness to the original singer/songwriter’s arrangements. The songs in the album were re-recorded by Dancel, Menesses, Zabala and Dellosa alongside former Twisted Halo front man Vin Dancel, Raimund Marasigan of Sandwich/Pedicab/Cambio, Chillitees keyboardist Dan Gil, former Teeth and current Daydream Cycle/Skies of Ember guitarist Jerome Velasco and Cris O. Ramos, Jr. The album features favorite cuts such as “Dasal,” “Walk Slowly,” “Falling Mercury” “Secret Army,” “Driving School” and “Para” as sung by Wolfmann himself as well as remixes by electronica artists such as Squid 9, Silverfilter, Abdel Aziz and Morse.

SVC & WOLFMANN+ : Reunion Gig, June 28, 2008

Walk Slowly

• Videos from wolfmannplus' live gigs
• Pulse.ph - Event "wolfmannplus album launch"
• WOLFMANN ON-LINE VERSION 3.0