Hapijoey Profile Clip - Hapijoey's top 5 song picks from 1 band mashed into a 1-minute sound clip. All recorded at Hapijoey Recording Studio.


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 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

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