Introducing Four Limbs Six Hands Track: tucked out https://sheher.bandcamp.com/track/four-limbs-six-hands-tucked-out
Describe something that happened this year that inspired you to make music.
“I don't mean to be so sappy but what inspired me the most to be more creative this year are my bandmates. They're my bestest friends and closest musical collaborators. Leading up to this release, their enthusiasm, energy, and output everytime we come together fills me up with so much life. I sometimes feel like I can live forever coz of it. FLSH wouldn't get this far without them. Love you Sabby, Frankie, and Viya.”
How has the changing political landscape the last 12 months impacted you personally?
“Our band is made up of laborers so the political landscape of the Philippines is not distant to us. Power and wealth remain concentrated among the elite political dynasties and entrenched bureaucracy, while farmers and fisherfolk are violently pushed aside as their land is taken for subdivisions, resorts, and development projects that serve the wealthy. Entry-level wages remain unlivable as prices continue to rise, making it more difficult for people to imagine a future here. As women and trans people, we also face the everyday realities of gender discrimination and social barriers, and as artists, we struggle in an industry that offers little support or stability for independent creatives. There is SO much more going on but the exploitation of marginalized sectors shapes our lives directly--and it is the reality that drives the music we make together.”
If your track were another great work of art, what would it be & why?
“If our track were an artwork, my pick would be T. Fleischmann's Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through, and Viya's pick is Breakfast on Pluto. There's many connecting seams for both works including how they show how society often demands that trans people explain themselves through fixed categories, descriptions--male or female, before and after, transition as a clear linear story--but their lived experience resists that structure, describing gender as something that unfolds over time, something felt and navigated rather than definitively 'solved.'”
