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The Philippines’ long and vibrant engagement with rock and roll, a genre that found fertile ground in the archipelago almost as soon as it emerged as a defining popular sound of the 20th century, weaving itself into the fabric of local cultural production to become one of the most consistent and beloved forms of recorded sound to emerge from the country across generations. Alapaap, a rock and roll sound rooted in this extensive legacy of local creators reinterpreting and expanding on the core tenets of the genre to create work that feels both connected to rock and roll’s global roots and distinctly rooted in the cultural context that birthed its specific iteration, holds its own as a vital addition to the canon of Philippine rock and roll that has grown to capture attention from audiences both within the archipelago and far beyond its borders.
