Padre Pio Green Valley (from Same Page)

"When I recorded “Padre Pio Green Valley,” I wanted to capture the longing I had been carrying through my conversations with Melina since 2022—the quiet dream of finding peace again by returning home. Living in Dubai gave me opportunities and distance, but it also sharpened my ache for simplicity: mornings of cool mountain air, the sound of running water, and the kind of silence you only find in the valleys of the Philippines.

The piece was recorded live, in one take, straight to tape in the valley itself called Padre Pio Green Valley. I set up by the spring, with the sound of water from Mount Isarog streaming in the background—its natural rhythm grounding the piece. With my processed Microbrute preset, I sculpted slow, breathing tones, letting them spill out like thought clouds dissolving with some Ableton effects in the open air. I also played a kalimba and a harpika, their fragile, metallic notes weaving through the synth—sometimes plucked gently, sometimes left to ring raw and imperfect. Everything passed through a touch of my Microcosm, not to hide the instruments, but to let them blur slightly into the sound of the valley, as if they belonged to the place rather than to me.

The track isn’t polished—it isn’t meant to be. It’s more like a letter written in the moment, without revision. A sound postcard of who I was that day: someone caught between the past reality of Dubai and the previously just imagined return to a simple life here at home. The water in the recording is a reminder that life keeps flowing, whether I am there or not, and that I can always step back into it when I am ready.

I gave this to Melina as both a confession and a gift. It holds my aspirations, my restlessness, and the peace I keep chasing. In its imperfections, I think it says more than I ever could in words: this is where I come from, this is what I long for, and this is how I carry you with me across the distance." 

- Sukatoyo

"Same Page" is a deeply personal split cassette single that serves as an ambient sound postcard between two long-distance friends—Melina Blanco and Jordan Cortez. Each side of the cassette holds a single track, a meditative sonic letter capturing a fragment of their inner lives, shaped by geography, memory, and emotional resonance. The cassette becomes a bridge, a quiet exchange, a testament to a friendship that blossomed in Dubai in 2022 and endured through physical distance, time zones, and the solitude of creative life while of both are trying to cultivate their own lives and career in Portugal and the Philippines respectively.

Despite only physically sharing a few days together, Melina and Jordan built a friendship that feels eternal—held up by honest check-ins, Zoom calls, mutual encouragement, and unspoken understanding. Same Page is about that kind of connection: one that doesn’t require constant presence to remain vibrant. It honors distance not as loss, but as a different kind of closeness.

Same Page is an act of care, of listening, and of friendship in the form of sound.

https://analogamigo.bandcamp.com/album/same-page