Ely Buendia has dropped the official music video for 'Kandarapa', his third single off the introspective solo album Method Adaptor. And as expected from the OPM icon, the visuals weren’t just a complement—they extended the storytelling of this era.
Directed by emerging filmmaker and Offshore Music in-house creative Gada Nyssa Zayco, the music video offered a surreal and symbolic lens into the emotional weight of the track. From metaphoric props to the use of the ocean as a motif for cycles and emotional unrest, the video added a layer of dreamlike vulnerability to Buendia’s already raw material.
“It takes a certain kind of bravery to begin a song with an admission that something’s not okay—even before the first note plays,” Zayco shared. “I wanted the visuals to feel like a dream you’re half-aware of.”
Shot and produced under Buendia’s own Offshore Music label, the music video was a passion-fueled DIY effort, with Buendia himself at the helm of production. This is the latest in his creative expansion, following his on-screen performance in Pandamlagan, a Cinemalaya-featured period film.
Zayco, known for her guerrilla-style direction on Pinkmen’s 'Di Pa Rin Sapat (Ang Sahod)', stepped into an “art house” aesthetic for this project. This marked her first time directing a music video of this scale—and for a legend she once thought was “unreachable.”
“Ely gives you space to create, yet challenges you to see things from a deeper place,” she said. “His trust became my compass.”
Buendia also hosted a TikTok Live during the premiere, letting fans in on the creative process and further cementing 'Kandarapa' as a milestone not just in his discography, but in his evolution as a multidisciplinary artist.
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