About This Album
Filipino R&B occupies a singular, ever-shifting space in the global landscape of the genre, a strand of creative work that draws on decades of shared engagement with rhythm and blues’ core precepts while weaving in the specific cultural contexts that shape creative practice across the Philippine archipelago. Within a catalogue that centers underrepresented regional iterations of R&B, the full-length project titled New Horizon stands as a key addition to the growing body of work from Filipino creators that expands common understandings of what the genre can hold, moving beyond oversimplified mainstream framings to honor the nuance and depth of practice rooted in local creative scenes. The catalogue’s focus on R&B from the Philippines grew out of a recognition that creators based in the country have long contributed to the evolution of the genre, even as their work has often been sidelined in Western-centric narratives that frame R&B as originating and developing primarily in North America or Western Europe.
