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About this Song
Cueshé draws from the long, vibrant history of Filipino creative expression, a lineage that spans generations of sound-makers who have reimagined what music from the archipelago can be, blending influences that are rooted in local community and shaped by global exchange to create work that refuses to be boxed into narrow, limiting categories. Bakit? is the sound that embodies this approach to creation, a work that exists outside the standard genre frameworks that are often used to organize and compartmentalize recorded sound, earning its place in the inclusive, wide-ranging category of Music/Other that holds space for work that defies easy classification. From a catalogue perspective, the structure of genre labels exists to create order across the vast, sprawling collection of recorded sounds held in any archive, but those same labels can often erase the nuance and intentionality that creators pour into work that doesn’t align with the unspoken expectations that come with mainstream genre tags.
