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PRESS RELEASE

Elian and Ines proudly announce their latest passion project: MUSIC AND WINE presents Strictly Jazz, a monthly event held at the swanky new jazz bar Top of the Alpha by Louie Y. The launch party is scheduled for Friday November 23rd at 9pm.

Elian Habayeb and Ines Cabarrus-Habayeb aren't new to the scene. They've been doing this for quite a while now.

Just 10 years ago, MUSIC AND WINE was a radio show, a weekly party, and a newspaper column that the couple produced and authored. And, although the Saturday event at the Mandarin Oriental's "Martinis" bar and the column in the Manila Standard Today ceased when the couple opened their first Chihuahua Mexican Grill, the syndicated radio program airing on the no longer existent 106.7 DreamFM "Manila's Jazz Authority" and on sister stations nationwide continued garnering an ever-growing listener base. As a podcast, MUSIC AND WINE Radio reaches the four corners of the Earth with hundreds of thousands of downloads and subscribers, just recently earning the #18 spot on Podomatic's global house music ranking.

Today, DJ Elian remains the "music" part of the relationship, focusing on jazz more than ever before in his career. He obsessively follows the evolution of this American art form as it takes root in the world's most progressive societies, from New York, Chicago, San Francisco, and New Orleans, to Montreal, Toyko, Copenhagen, and Montreux. "There is a direct correlation between how dynamic a society is and how high the concentration of jazz bars," says Elian. "Jazz is the most advanced form of music out there today. Any musician that plays it must be a true master of his instrument." Elian plans to play DJ sets of "nothing but jazz" all night long, with carefully selected tracks dropped at the most appropriate points of the evening.

His wife Ines holds a Level 3 Wine & Spirit Education Trust certificate and was a founding faculty member of top hospitality school Enderun, where she taught "beverage management" for five years. An avid jazz fan herself, she plans to work the room talking wine and helping guests find the perfect libation to pair with the evening's tunes.

And just as jazz is abstract music, expect abstract photography by DPGK.

Don't miss this if you're a fan of music, wine or both. And come congratulate Louie Ysmael on his gorgeous new jazz bar at the penthouse of the Alpha building!

Playlist

01 'sup. bicoastal collective

02 brazilian love affair. negroni's trio

03 compared to what. roberta flack

04 n'tiana's dream. chico freeman

05 jazz is a four-letter word. nicholas payton

06 november. electric squeezebox orchestra

07 thematic. kait dunton

08 trust. roy hargrove

09 towards the light. pat metheny brad mehldau

10 invocation. bobby mcferrin

11 speak no evil. antonio adolfo

12 new direction. herlin riley

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Here's an early mix from the HOUSE OF LOVE days. They don't make music like this anymore. Absolutely love it.
Featuring tracks by Francois K, Matthias Heilbronn, Llorca, Sun Orchestra, and lots more.

Chill House with an Attitude vol 6 elian Feb 2005 | Episode 95
01 Let The Children Play. Raul Midón
02 Enjoy It Now. Tortured Soul
03 Voice In Every Heart (Spinna Mix) Raul Midon
04 Better Day (Deeper Daze Mix) Alphamotive
05 Like I Love You (Jazzanova Mix) Pharrell Williams & Justin Timberlake
06 - Unknown -
07 When You Find Your Love. Alistair Colling vs Tortured Soul
08 You Groove Me (Jon Cutler Mix) Kemdi
09 Show Me (Shaheer’s Soul Mix) Stephanie Cooke
10 Here With My Best Friend (Lil’ Louie Vega Mix) Stephanie Cookie
11 Days Like This (Spen & Karizma Mix) Shaun Escoffery
12 - Unknown - Bebel Gilberto
Recorded for Paseo Uno LOUNGE
Voice overs:
Wendell Garcia
Markus Jentes
Anna Juco
Elian Habayeb
#ThrowbackMix

It's another pleasant, drizzly Wednesday night in the tropics. This time we're at HOOCH, the speakeasy famous for its designer cocktails that has recently become the place to go to for decent house music in Salcedo Village.
It's my first time to play at HOOCH, although Ines and I have been to the bar plenty of times. The place is small and dark, with a long bar along its right side and two screens showing Charlie Chaplin movies. Outside, a couple of couches, and wooden cocktail tables facing Leviste Street. The night's organizer Jimmy Electriscoot sets up early on Wednesdays, and makes sure to include his Warfedale sub and the hi-fi monitor speakers for a fuller sound outside. I start at about 10pm when there's already a good number of friends in the crowd. I feel this burning need to play uplifting house music all night long.
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The day is a particularly glum one for me on a personal level. This morning, Bernie Sanders announced his endorsement of Hillary Clinton, which means the bitter end to the revolution he’s been leading and that we’ve been following so fervently for the last year. For once, I thought there’s a possible solution to many of the problem plaguing the United States and the world. Finally, I thought, there was a guy that couldn't be bought, one with a moral compass that pointed him in the right direction, the compass of justice, compassion, equality, and solidarity.
He proudly called himself a Democratic Socialist and it just didn't matter... this 'assumed' negative did not slow down his popular campaign that swept through the country like a wildfire. His ideas turned out to be right in line with the majority of the country. In less than a year, he was able to close a 60 point gap in the polls versus Hillary, who had the full weight of the establishment behind her: the donors, the Democratic party, the corporate media.
Wherever he went, he filled stadiums. It didn't matter whether it was Milwaukee, Wisconsin--home of some the last standing organized labor movements, deep red Louisiana Baton Rouge, or liberal Portland, Oregon. Crowds were always over eight thousand people, and sometimes over twenty seven thousand people.
And all of this was accomplished with virtually zero coverage on the nightly cable news, no coverage in the papers--unless it was to call him "a socialist" or "old". Everywhere you went, people were buzzing about Bernie Sanders. When he'd visit the late night shows, he’d consistently get standing ovations and break the ratings. Videos of these appearances went viral. Everyone was #feelingtheBern
This is a man that was arrested for fighting for civil rights with Martin Luther King in the 60s, and that invited Noam Chomsky to talk to his constituents the citizens of Burlington, Vermont, in the 80s about the harm that US foreign policy was causing in Nicaragua and El Salvador, and debating what these citizens could do to be part of the solution. He grilled Fed Chairman Allan Greenspan and Treasury Secretary Bob Rubin in ‘89 about the deregulation of banks that caused the worst financial collapse since the Great Depression, and opposed the 2008 bank bailouts that had no strings attached to speak of. He stood virtually alone against the Iraq war in 2003, and he took delegations of Vermont residents across the border to Canada to see how cheap drugs were and how efficiently their single-payer health care system worked.
He came out strong against fracking, against the TPP, against GMOs, and against the industrial prison complex, even against the police’s brutality versus minorities. He came out strong against the highest levels of income and wealth inequality recorded in modern history and against a disappearing middle class. He strongly supported ending the death penalty, supported gun control, supported immigration reform that allowed 11 million people to come out of the shadows, supported a $15 minimum wage, supported paid family leave, supported free tuition in public universities, supported breaking up the big banks, and supported peace in the Middle East.
His message was clear, his platform was plainly outlined at every event, his views were unequivocally expressed in every interview. He insisted on running an issued-oriented campaign, he never ran a negative ad, he never went after his opponent personally. However, he made sure to highlight the differences of opinion he had with Clinton and his other opponents.
Unlike him, Clinton did not have the crowds, she did not have a clear message, and did not have much of a grass roots campaign. She did, however, have unparalleled access to Wall Street money. Every industry that had supported her or her husband in the past came to her rescue. That money translated into ads, which in addition to being a big microphone, meant great influence in the media. It bought consultants and alliances within the party, and it presumably bought many irregularities in the voting systems throughout states that...

Throwback Elian Mix from the MyHOUSE at M Cafe days
01 Temperamental. Everything But The Girl (Karizma Mix)
02 You Don’t Know My Name. Alicia Keys (Karizma)
03 What You Do Is Crazy. Jill Scott (Kenny Dope Mix)
04 4 The Love Of House. Karizma & Spen
05 When. Kenny Bobien (83 West Vocal Mix)
06 Fade. Solu Music (ADNY Dub)
07 Dance With Me. K Klass (DJ Spen & the Mothefunkaz Mix)
08 ..
09 Free. Stephanie Mills (Louie Vega Vocal Remix)
10 ..
11 Ichawo. Franck Roger
12 Ordinary People. John Legend feat. Skinny Fabulous