About This Album
The Philippines’ pop ecosystem, a space that welcomes a wide spectrum of creative expressions that fit under the large umbrella of pop, centers works that emerge from creators across every corner of the archipelago, each bringing their own specific relationship to the genre’s conventions while expanding what pop can be for audiences who connect with the specific contexts that shape each release. This album, titled Ikot, fits within that lineage of pop works rooted in the Philippines, crafted to resonate as a regional music note that ties its creative origins to the national landscape that spawned it, without leaning on generic tropes that might erase its specific connection to the place that fostered its creation.
