About This Album
The creator behind the Filipino folk album Way Sukod centers their practice entirely within the centuries-long, evolving tradition of folk music that stretches across every island and community of the Philippines, a tradition that has long served as both a living archive of communal experience and a dynamic form that adapts to meet the needs of each new generation that engages with it. Folk music from the Philippines is not a monolith, and the album Way Sukod exists within a vast ecosystem of regional folk expressions that carry distinct cultural lineages, each tied to the specific histories of the indigenous and settler communities that have shaped the archipelago’s cultural landscape for millennia.
