About This Album
R&B’s journey across global creative centers has long been defined by its ability to absorb and reimagine core genre tenets through the lens of local cultural identities, and Memento Mori sits within that long, sprawling lineage of transnational evolution that redefines what the form can be when rooted in a specific place’s creative soil. The Philippines’ own engagement with R&B stretches back decades, woven into the fabric of the nation’s broader recorded music ecosystem as creators have adapted the genre’s foundational preoccupations to speak to the specificities of life in the archipelago, turning a form born of one regional creative lineage into something that carries its own distinct weight and meaning for audiences and makers alike.
