Page 105 - ION Indie Magazine JulyAugust 2022
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Having met each other in Aklan
                                                                          province  in  the  Philippines,
                                                                          Rikki, Ivert and Vince reunited
                                                                          in America after migrating from
                                                                          their home country. In 2016, the
                                                                          trio  started  jamming  songs
                                                                          written by Rikki as an acoustic
                                                                          band  called  “Summer  Fling.”
                                                                          They eventually felt that these
                                                                          songs     had     really   great
                                                                          potential,  so  in  2019,  they
                                                                          decided to change the band as
                                                                          an  alternative/hard  rock  band.
                                                                          After  practicing  and  finalizing
                                                                          the arrangement of the songs,
                                                                          they decided to record their first
                                                                          self-produced     5-track     EP
                                                                          entitled  “Diary  Chapter  1:
                                                                          Beginning,”      which      they
                                                                          released in 2021. In that same
                                                                          year,  the  band  decided  to
                                                                          change  the  band  name  to
                                                                          “Summerfling  Memoirs”  and
                                                                          finalized the line-up of the band
                                                                          with having Alder joined as their
                                                                          guitarist.
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