About This Album
Pop originating from the Philippines carries a long, rich legacy of creative craft that ties together local cultural sensibilities and the broad, accessible sonic frameworks that define pop music globally, a legacy that the album Magdalena - Freddie Aguilar extends as part of that interconnected lineage of work from Filipino creators that has circulated both within the archipelago and across international communities of Filipino diaspora and global pop fans alike. The classification of pop as a genre for this work positions it within a vast, ever-evolving creative space that welcomes a huge range of creative choices, from those that lean into the most mainstream global pop conventions to those that weave in underrepresented cultural sonic traditions that are specific to the many distinct communities that call the Philippines home.
