About this Song
Woven into the vast, intergenerational tapestry of folk expression that stretches across the Philippines’ hundreds of inhabited islands, Mabudhi-On carries the core weight of oral tradition that defines much of the music born from the communities that call the archipelago home. Unlike formalized musical forms that are codified in sheet music or bound to the constraints of commercial recording models that shape much of the global music industry, folk sound as it is practiced and preserved across the Philippines grows out of a long lineage of shared creation, passed between neighbours, across family lines, and through community gatherings that turn individual expression into a collective experience.
Mabudhi-OnCynthia Soza Banda
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