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About this Song
The live marker appended to Cahaya (Live) signals a sound recording created to capture the unmediated conditions of a performance, rather than the layered, constructed environment of a studio production space, aligning with the core of rock and roll’s longstanding ties to live, in-the-moment creative expression. This sound is rooted in the creative ecosystem of the Philippines, a region that has cultivated a distinct, vibrant rock and roll scene for decades, with local practitioners adapting the core structural and cultural throughlines of the global rock and roll form to speak to their own unique experiences and creative priorities. Every sound classified by its country of origin carries the imprint of that region’s creative landscape, even as it connects to the broader global genre it is grouped within, and Cahaya (Live) sits at the intersection of that local rootedness and global genre identity.
