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Cueshé, the Filipino creative force behind this work, centers their practice in the diverse, interconnected creative ecosystem of the Philippines, bringing forward their sound Pasensya Na as a contribution to a global community of artists who make work that defies the narrow, often exclusionary genre labels that structure most mainstream music distribution and classification systems. Categorized under Music/Other, the work exists in a space intentionally set aside for creative expressions that cannot be contained by the limited set of pre-existing genre categories that prioritize specific sonic traditions, commercial structures, and cultural origins. For too long, standard genre frameworks have sidelined artists from regions across the Global South, forcing their work to squeeze into boxes that were built to center the output of artists from a small set of predominantly Western, English-speaking markets, erasing the uniqueness of their creative identities and the cultural contexts that shape their work.
