About This Album
Hip-Pop as a transnational form that absorbs and reworks local cultural currents to carve out distinct, regionally rooted sonic identities finds one of its most vivid iterations in the full body of work that makes up Materyal, an album rooted in the creative ecosystem of the Philippines. The choice to work within the framework of Hip-Pop, a genre that balances the rhythmic core of its origins with the adaptive flexibility to meet the needs of creators working thousands of miles from the cultural hubs that first popularized it, lets the album’s creators engage with a global sonic language while anchoring their work firmly in the creative legacies that define artistic practice across the Philippines.
