About This Album
Rock and roll as a genre has traveled far beyond its mid-20th century origins to take root in nearly every corner of the globe, adapting to local cultural priorities, linguistic traditions, and community concerns wherever it lands, and one of the most vibrant ongoing scenes for the form, that honors its core raw energy while weaving in deeply rooted local cultural identity, can be found across the Philippines. The full-length album Isang Ugat, Isang Dugo emerges from this longstanding Philippine rock and roll tradition, a body of work that exists within a lineage of creators across the archipelago who have turned to rock and roll’s structural and cultural framework to channel shared ties between listeners, makers, and the wide range of communities that span the country’s thousands of islands.
