JM Arcilla
JM Arcilla
John Mark Arcilla, from the Philippines, making indie folk music that you could take home and introduce to your parents, all from his bedroom. He makes music that would come out from She & Him if it was fronted by Jens Lekman and if they recruited Belle and Sebastian as their backing band. He is also law student and a licensed geologist 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