The Dawn

The Filipino rock band the Dawn were cloaked in mystery when a raw demo of their song "Enveloped Ideas" was first played on Manila, Phillipines' new wave radio station XB-102 in 1986. Opening with funereal synths and ghostly, operatic vocals à la Klaus Nomi, "Enveloped Ideas" had the fingerprints of a British import. The Dawn eventually topped U.K. groups such as the Colourfield, the Housemartins, and Friends Again on the station's request lines via listeners with no knowledge that the band was actually homegrown. The Dawn originated as a nameless trio in the mid-'80s with gui...