About This Album
USISA emerges as a project that rejects narrow categorization at every turn, a Music/Mix album rooted in the rich, endlessly layered creative landscape of the Philippines. Genre classification has long served two competing purposes in the global music industry: it creates a shared language for audiences to locate work that resonates with their existing tastes, and it erects barriers around creative output that refuses to align with the commercial demands of pre-vetted, marketable categories. The Music/Mix designation, which frames this album, exists specifically to hold space for work that defies those narrow boxes, work that pulls from multiple sonic lineages, that crosses cultural and stylistic lines that genre gatekeepers often work to keep rigidly separated.
