All About The Wentletraps

Meet Ria and Chary Silva of The Wentletraps. The song "Pure" is included in the 2nd volume of Overtune Project.

Chary: Hello! This is Chary. The "other" Wentletraps. hehehe.
Thank you for this! Good day.

Overtune: I noticed that you have the same surname "Silva", how are you related with each other?

Chary: We are sisters! Ria is 6 years older than me and we share the same room at home. haha!
Ria is currently working and I'm still a college student.

Overtune: Who primarily writes the songs?

Chary: I write most of the songs but we both work the tunes because we usually start with them and then I am left to put in the words.

Overtune: Was there any musical inspirations that you drew from for the new tunes?

Chary: There weren't any in particular. Most of the time, we just play around with the guitar during idle hours and if we happen to discover a potential melody for a song, we consider it. We admit that some tunes were just accidents and funny sometimes, we don't even know if we are playing a "proper chord" or something, as long as they sound right. We feel that our songs sound better if we put reverbs and delays. We love reverbs and delays.

Overtune: What are some of your favorite bands? What bands did you grow up listening to?

Chary: Our Dad is a musician and he grew up in the sixties so we are somehow exposed to the "Oldies" genre. We admire Simon and Garfunkel, Dave Clark Five and the like. We both hail several shoegaze or shoegaze-type/related bands like The Radio Dept., My Bloody Valentine, Jesus and Mary Chain, Stone Roses. We also like Neil Halstead, Club 8, The Smiths, Belle and Sebastian, etc. Who wouldn't love them? :)

Overtune: Do u have any strangest/worst embarassing experience as a musician? what is it? :D

Chary: I think our first ever (and still our very only) live performance in February last year would count. Dale, a good friend of ours from Apple Orchard, invited us to play for "Half-steps Toward Bright Skies" gig and I think it was, not embarassing, awkward maybe, because it was the first time we played infront of more than ten people. Haha! It was just for a small audience but we were still kind of nervous being that our first gig ever although, we enjoyed it a lot. It was a fun experience and heart-warming, too when they shouted "More!" so we played another song which was not in our repertoire - a cover song by The Rentals.

Overtune: Any future record releases?

Chary: At present, no serious plans for that. Hopefully, a part of a compilation in the future. :)

Overtune: Thank you Ria and Chary for sharing yer music with us! Best of luck!

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Genre: Indie

photo by the wentletraps