About This Album
For decades, R&B has taken root across the Philippines, reimagining the core frameworks of the global genre while weaving in unspoken cultural sensibilities that shape every iteration that emerges from the archipelago’s creative communities. This steady evolution of the form, from its earliest local adaptations that first found purchase in regional live music circuits to the contemporary iterations that circulate between local audiences and global listenerships, sets the stage for Muni, a full-length album that sits firmly within this long line of Filipino R&B works. To frame Muni properly requires situating it not as an isolated work, but as part of a continuum of artistic practice that stretches back generations, building on the choices of creators who came before to expand what the genre can hold, even as it remains tied to the core sonic and thematic throughlines that define R&B as a whole.
