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Folk has long served as more than a categorical label for creative sound, instead acting as a vessel for the intergenerational transmission of identity, perspective, and shared experience that binds communities to their histories and to one another. Rooted in the specific cultural contexts of the regions that spawn it, folk practice varies wildly across the globe, shaped by the unique customs, narratives, and collective identities of the communities that nurture and evolve it across centuries. For the Philippines, the island nation that is home to this album, that folk lineage stretches across thousands of islands, weaving together the perspectives of more than a hundred distinct indigenous and regional cultural groups into a sprawling, multifaceted creative tradition that refuses to be reduced to any single, narrow interpretation.
