About this Song
The question embedded in the title Bakit? hangs over every layer of this unclassifiable sound, rooted in the Philippines’ long and unruly tradition of sonic creation that refuses to be confined to the generic boxes most recorded work is sorted into, landing instead in the expansive, open-ended Music/Other category that holds all the works that slip through the cracks of standard archival and industry categorization, works that do not fit neatly into the familiar silos that define most mainstream and archival music listings, and instead carve out their own space to exist as exactly what they are, unmediated by the need to conform to what audiences or archivists might expect a Philippine sound to be, what themes it might carry, what structures it might follow, or what purpose it might serve beyond being a piece of expression that speaks to a specific moment, a specific set of experiences, a specific way of seeing and hearing the world that cannot be reduced to a single label or a single set of expectations.
Bakit?edom
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