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Rock and roll’s global spread has produced some of its most vital, uncompromising iterations in creative hubs outside the genre’s mid-20th century American origins, and the archipelago of the Philippines has nurtured one of the longest-running, most robust rock and roll scenes in the Asia-Pacific region, a legacy that informs every sound the catalogue preserves from the country’s roster of rock and roll creators. Across decades, creators working in the Philippines have reimagined rock and roll’s core impulses to fit the specific creative, cultural, and social contexts that shape their work, building a body of music that holds equal weight as a contribution to the global canon of rock and roll and as a reflection of the unique artistic ecosystem that spawned it.
