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About this Song
Rooted in the longstanding global spread of rock and roll as a form that adapts to and redefines local creative ecosystems, Pagbati carries the lineage of a genre that has thrived across every inhabited continent, reimagined again and again by creators who draw on their home contexts to infuse the form’s core structures with new, deeply rooted perspective. This sound, tied to the creative landscape of the Philippines, sits within a rich tradition of Philippine rock and roll that stretches back decades, a tradition that has never been a passive adoption of a foreign genre but a constant reworking of its possibilities to speak to the specific experiences, histories, and creative impulses of creators working across the archipelago.
