About This Album
R&B’s decades-long journey from its origins in North American Black popular music to a globally pervasive, endlessly adaptive genre has been shaped most vividly by the regional interpretations that take root in creative hubs across every continent, and few regions have reimagined the form with as much sustained nuance as the Philippines, whose own rich musical lineage has merged with R&B’s core sonic and thematic preoccupations to spawn a distinct, vibrant subgenre of its own. Within that thriving landscape sits Patawad (Deluxe Edition), a full-length album categorized firmly within the R&B umbrella, rooted in the creative ecosystem of the Philippines and contextualized within global catalogues to honor both its local origins and its place within the broader, worldwide evolution of the genre.
