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Sampung Mga Daliri
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About this Song
The archipelagic landscape of the Philippines provides the grounding frame for this folk sound, which carries all the markers of a work rooted in the creative lineages that shape the country’s catalog of recorded folk music. Titled Sampung Mga Daliri, the sound sits within a growing body of folk works that originate across the country’s many islands, each bringing their own specific ties to the communities that nurtured the creative traditions from which they emerge. To situate any folk sound from the Philippines is to recognize that the classification of folk as a genre for works from this context does not box the sound into a monolith, but rather places it within a wide, varied continuum of creative expressions that have been shared, adapted, and preserved through generations of community practice.
