Bedroom Sounds Vols. 1 and 2 Extras Released!

BANDCAMP RELEASE INCLUDES  EXCLUSIVE BONUS TRACK + VIDEO!

Bedroom Sounds Vols. 1 and 2 Extras has been released on Bandcamp! Bonuses include an exclusive demo of a song I almost submitted to the 2012 PhilPop Songwriting Festival (I failed to beat the submission deadline!), and an exclusive, un-edited pre-release video of an acoustic cover of a 90's one-hit wonder!

These are the extra tracks that I included in Bedroom Sounds, Vols. 1 and 2 when I released it on iTunes. You can get it for free! Just head on to the Music page and download it now! As quickly as possible! Did I say you could get it for free?

Circuit Fest 2013

 

Circuit Fest 2013: Twelve hours of music and skate. Yellowcard, Mayday Parade, Allstar Weekend, We Are The In Crowd, This Century, Before You Exit, Downtown Fiction, Megan Nicole, The A+ Dropouts, with Willy Santos and Riley Hawk.

We arrived at the Globe Circuit Event Grounds in Makati (the former Sta. Ana Racetrack) at around 5 PM and the place was HUGE. It's supposed to house 20,000 people but there's just so much space. People were having picnics (or maybe they were just sitting on mats in the ground :p ) and there was a lot of space to run around. Circle pits formed in the front and people were running and dancing to the music. A lot of energy emanated from these young acts.

The rain, which came and went, did not deter the audience from rocking out to the acts, which were very appreciative of all the support they were getting from their enthusiastic Filipino fans. I did not take too many pictures because I was too busy having fun (--,)

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Skate

This kid was the center of attention when the rain suddenly poured into the open-air venue.

This kid. This kid. (Almost) skates like an adult.

Music

It was very exhilarating to watch We Are the In Crowd for the first time. Front woman Taylor Jardine is my replacement for Hayley Williams (--,)

Kids going wild for Mayday Parade (who played the Philippines twice already). I felt really old because the kids in front of me were like, high school students o_O

Yellowcard!

Yellowcard playing "Light Up The Sky"

Yellowcard playing "Only One"!

About

John Mark Arcilla is a law student and a licensed geologist from the Philippines who wants to conquer the world one bedroom recording at a time. 

His "Bedroom Sounds" EPs have been featured on the now-defunct Philippine rock station nU107 in 2010. He also contributed two songs, "Nasaan" and "Takbo" to the soundtrack of the CinemaOne Originals 2010 film "Tsardyer".

His album "Bedroom Sounds, Vols. 1 and 2" is available on iTunes and in major digital retailers. At the age of eight years old, using a guitar and four chords his father taught him, he started to write and record silly one-minute songs on his tape recorder.

At the age of 12, he pieced together short sound files and read passages from his parents' law books. He re-learned the guitar at age 14 and wrote his first decent song at age 15 when he put a melody to one of his poems. He formed bands with his high school friends, and ended up writing their high school graduation song. 

Since 2003, he has been recording his songs in his bedroom, playing all the instruments and doing all the mixing. His recording setup eventually evolved from from a single computer mic to a "full-fledged bedroom recording setup." Today he continues to hone his songwriting skills, record more songs, and improve his recording setup, all in the comfort of his bedroom.