About This Album
Tahanan anchors itself to a decades-long lineage of Filipino R&B, a genre that has long served as a vessel for intimate, unguarded storytelling within the Philippine archipelago’s sprawling creative ecosystem. The title itself, a foundational term in Tagalog that carries far more weight than its most literal translation of “home,” signals a project that engages with the full range of meaning that word holds for Filipinos across every corner of the globe. For Filipino communities, tahanan is never just a physical house or a fixed geographic location. It is the quiet comfort of a grandparent’s lap after a long day of playing outside, the hum of a shared family meal that stretches late into the night, the familiar cadence of a regional dialect that only clicks into place when you are surrounded by people who share your roots.
