Filipino meets Cuban at Bayan Ko

A snug Ravenswood mom and pop with postcolonial synergy. The song Bayan Ko (“My Country”) is a wistful Filipino anthem, about a beautiful land suffering (and hopefully prevailing) under colonization. On the other side of the planet, Cuba has a less oblique, more strident song, La Bayamesa, about kicking Spanish ass in the country’s decades-long wars fought for independence.…