Bogart the Explorer: Kick-ass musican in a kick-ass band

Outside a small shoe store inside the trenches of Trinoma, a young crowd gathers. No, they did not show up for a shoe sale. They came to attend the launch of Giniling Festival's EP "Effico."

Though mall regulations required the band to play behind the store's glass door, it didn't stop vocalist Jeje Santos from connecting with the hundred or so people who showed up, a tiny fraction of their 49,000-plus fans on Facebook.

Giniling Festival launches new EP in a shoe store. (Photo by Francis Brew)
Behind Jeje, guitarists Bombee Duerme and Jebs Mangahas play metallic riffs on their Stratocasters as bassist Lec Cruz locks down tight grooves with drummer Marco Ho.
Prog rock at its best
The band barrels their way through the songs in "Effico," threatening to rattle footwear off the  display shelves.
Giniling Festival's seamless musical brand of tribal-into-classical-into-metal-into-God-knows-what (prog in the best sense of the word) overlaid with humorous yet socially critical lyrics and catchy