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Raining In Manila
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About this Song
The sprawling, dense, vibrant metropolitan hub of Manila sits at the heart of the Philippines’ national creative economy, a space where generations of sonic creators have turned personal and collective experience into work that resonates across local communities and far beyond the archipelago’s island borders. It is this city that anchors Raining In Manila, a sound work categorized as Music/Mix, rooted entirely in the Philippines’ thriving community of artists who build their practice around blending, reworking, and reimagining sonic material to create something entirely new, unbound by the strict genre boundaries that often limit the scope of recorded music. For creators across the Philippines, the mix format has long been a site of radical creativity, a way to engage with the full breadth of the country’s own long and varied sonic history while also connecting to global currents of experimental and popular sound that circulate through digital and physical spaces across the world.
