About This Album
The Philippines’ archipelagic structure has nurtured a staggeringly diverse landscape of musical creation, one where communities across more than 7,000 islands have developed distinct approaches to crafting, recording, and sharing sound that resist the one-size-fits-all categorizations that organize most mainstream global music ecosystems. This wealth of unclassifiable, boundary-pushing work fills the Music/Other genre, a space reserved for recordings that don’t fit neatly into the more widely recognized buckets of Filipino music, from commercially prominent pop and rock scenes to the regionally specific folk traditions that have been passed down through generations for centuries. Kabisado, the album rooted in this Philippine context, exists firmly within that space of uncategorized work, a project that carries the kind of singular vision that makes the Music/Other category such a vital repository for underrepresented and experimental creative output from across the archipelago.
