Narda
| Narda | |
|---|---|
| Origin | Quezon City, Philippines |
| Genres |
Post-Punk Revival Alternative rock New Rave Pinoy Rock Indie Rock |
| Years active | 2001– 2007 |
| Labels |
Ponkan Music (2002 – 2005) eVille Productions (2006 – present) |
| Associated acts | Tungaw Brownman Revival Duster Vince Noir Project The Dorques Project 1 Techy Romantics Us-2 Evil-0 Patience Dear Juggernaut |
| Website | Official site |
| Past members | Katwo Librando Ryan Villena Tani Santos |
Narda was a successful Pinoy rock band, widely seen as one of the visible acts in the Philippine indie rock scene in the early to mid-2000s.
Ryan Villena (drummer) had already been playing in several bands in his formative years. He started playing with Tungaw, a four-piece band which frequented Club Dredd in the heyday of the Filipino alternative music explosion in the 1990s. Villena was also a founding member of Brownman Revival (played keyboards), did session percussion work for Tropical Depression, and drummed for Romeo Lee and the Brown Briefs (with ex-Tungaw mates bassist Jing Gaddi and guitarist Mark Villena ).
Tungaw disbanded in 1998, when Ryan formed Lilian along with college friends from his Tanghalang Ateneo days, (which included Pupil's Yan Yuzon, Xander Angeles on guitar, Patrick Tuason on keyboards and Mimi Chu on vocals) in early 2000. Due to line-up changes, their demo was left unfinished. Through Conrad Javier of Boy Elroy, Ryan was introduced to Katwo Librando (who sang with Bent on Crickets) and asked her to do vocals for Lilian. Katwo jumped at the opportunity and Lilian version-2 launched with guitarist Wincy Aquino Ong.
After playing a gig at an Ayala Mountaineers party (playing original songs "Crime-fighting Mama", "Tanga", and "Suwerte"), a misunderstanding with Yan Yuzon occurred, which caused Lilian to disband. By this time, Ryan took Jing Gaddi's suggestion that JV Javier play guitar for them because JV's melodic bluesy style would fit into the band's mold. This left Ryan, Katwo, JV and Wincy in limbo, as they had a number of potential pop hits but without a band.
In a chat one afternoon, Ryan invited an Ateneo faculty member, Ed Ibarra, during a break from their graduate studies. With three guitarists, Wincy then took over the bass duties and the group jammed on July 31, 2002. Thus Narda was formed, at that time: Ryan on drums, JV and Ed on guitars, Wincy on bass, and Katwo on vocals.
Narda formed with three main objectives; namely, to write and play their original songs, to have fun, and to help out people. Due to Ryan and Ed’s connection with the Ateneo de Manila High School, a portion of Narda’s EP sales would go to the Tulong Dunong Scholarship Fund, which aimed to assist worthy public school students to study at the Ateneo and other private schools.
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