About This Album
To encounter a pop album rooted in the Philippines is to step into a world of creative expression that has long balanced the universal pull of the pop genre with the specific, deeply textured cultural identity of the archipelago that birthed it, a lineage of work that has redefined what pop can be for generation after generation of listeners, both within the nation’s borders and across the global Filipino diaspora that stretches to every corner of the modern world. Marilag, this collection of pop work that bears that lyrical, evocative title, sits firmly within that lineage, carrying forward the long tradition of Filipino pop creators who have turned the genre into a vessel for every kind of story that matters to their communities, from the most intimate personal reckonings to the largest collective celebrations that bind thousands of people together in shared joy.
