Music of Makiling Ensemble - Press Critics


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Press Quotations

"...probably the whole point of the Makiling Ensemble's music - when everything and everyone, granddaddies and punks, just blend into one throbbing, feel-good vibe."
–Malaya newspaper,  10 August 2000

"...The fact that indigenous music is not exactly mainstream does give its practitioners license to be profound, to distance themselves from the audience and call them ignorant buffoons. The Makiling Ensemble was anything but."
www.LegManila.com, 6 June 2000


"...Making waves within a select group of music lovers... is a group called the Makiling Ensemble which performed recently at the PCIBank Francisco Santiago hall..."
Amadis Ma. Guerrero, Philippine Daily Inquirer,  28 September 1998


"...This group of young men are revitalizing the stunted "ethnic" genre, and at an age when most of their contemporaries are anguishing over personal and cultural identity, they are making music that is unwaveringly Filipino."
Cool Magazine,  31 January 1998




Write Ups

The New Ethos of Ethnic, feature article at Malaya newspaper online
  edition. click here
Another Glance at "Ethnic", feature article of LegManila.com. click here
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