About this Song
Artists based in the Philippines working within pop often ground their creative output in the layered cultural currents that shape daily life across the archipelago, weaving the influences that shape their own artistic growth into every choice that goes into crafting a recorded work that feels both rooted in their local context and aligned with the expansive, accessible core of the pop genre that travels across borders and communities. For these creators, the process of moving from initial creative inquiry to a finished, polished recording is one that involves intentional engagement with every element of their practice, from the earliest stages of conceptualizing a new work to the final adjustments that bring a recording like Zuma House to full fruition as a work that carries the distinct stamp of the creative perspective that shaped it.
ZUMA HOUSEAmanda Black
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