MISTULA : Revelations

The following article was first published on the German publication, MangasZene, issue number 35. Special thanks to our dear friend, Claudia, for the English translation.

Overplay.com is the European online contact point for lovers of Indie music – with an online radio, charts, downloads, band portraits and forums. There is a considerably large amount of exceptional music to be explored and heard. One of the most exceptional bands to be featured there may, however, be the Philippine rock band Mistula, whose songs are in fact consistently in the rock charts, some of which have even reached the number one slot multiple times.

Mistula is also the first Philippine band to have earned one of the top places in Overplay’s International Play & Rate Competition. RockNation is just one of the music magazines to report about it.

In their homeland, Mistula are stars more than ever: They are equally recognized by notable rock communities such as PHILMUSIC.COM and RAKISTA.COM, as well as music channels MYX and MTV Philippines, where their first music video “Mulat” was aired late 2005.
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The following interview first appeared on the German magazine, CHO², January/February 2007 issue.

First of all: Can you explain a bit about the band and the band history for all the readers that don’t already know you?

LUGOSI:
Manx Minuet, our lead guitarist and resident showgirl, lists “band introductions with accompanying contortionism” in her resume, so…

MANX:
Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, children of all ages…

Coming to you, not-so-live, from the beautiful islands of the Philippines…

the first and only rock band in the world with dolls as members, who dabble in artforms of cultural significance…

rock poets extraordinaire…

the hard-as-resin wreckin crew of…

Mistula!
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