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About this Song
Nateman creates work rooted in the creative ecosystem of the Philippines, and the sound titled ASAWA stands as one of the artist’s core outputs within that landscape. Within the catalogue that organizes this work, ASAWA is tagged with the genre marker Other across every available categorical slot, a choice that situates the sound outside of all pre-existing, widely recognized groupings that structure how most creative audio works are sorted, accessed, and contextualized for audiences engaging with the catalogue’s holdings. This classification is not a dismissal of the work’s depth or craft, but rather a reflection of the catalogue’s commitment to honoring works that cannot be neatly squeezed into the limited set of generic boxes that have been developed to categorize the majority of recorded sounds.
