About this Song
Yuridope, the Filipino artist whose creative practice has unfolded across a series of uncategorizable works that resist the rigid genre taxonomies common to both domestic and global music industry frameworks, centers this latest iteration of their craft in the sound titled Bawal, a piece that lands within the broad Music/Other classification that has long framed the artist’s output. For creators based in the Philippines, navigating the gap between the country’s rich, diverse musical heritage and the pressures to conform to widespread industry genre standards can shape nearly every choice of how to present and frame their work, and Yuridope’s consistent placement within Music/Other is not a failure to define their sound, but a deliberate choice to step outside the limits of what mainstream industry gatekeepers expect from Filipino creators.
BawalKing Bobollas
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