Jake Blount & Mali Obomsawin - "My Way's Cloudy (feat. Joe Rainey)" (Official Music Video)
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Listen to Jake Blount & Mali Obomsawin's "My Way's Cloudy," from their album 'symbiont.' About the song, the artists write:
"We entered a Providence, RI studio to record My Way’s Cloudy on a clear fall day. When we walked outside again, the sky was thick with smoke from Canadian wildfires, carried down on the breeze.
Climate change’s many consequences travel like smoke, imperiling bodies and communities as surely as they shroud the sky. The music of symbiont is an attempt to join our peoples in sound and movement as we stave off death together. The spiritual “My Way’s Cloudy” was collected from formerly enslaved Black people at the Hampton Institute—mere miles from where Jake’s family originates. Our arrangement features instrumentation from our respective musical traditions and vocals from renowned Red Lake Ojibway singer Joe Rainey. The video was filmed at the Penobscot Nation featuring Selena Neptune-Bear and her two nieces Carmella and Layla Bear."
Directed by: Lokotah Sanborn (https://www.lokotahsanborn.com/)
Dancers: Selena Neptune-Bear, Carmella Bear, Layla Bear
Camera Operators: Jared Lank, Lokotah Sanborn
Editing: Lokotah Sanborn
Jake Blount: percussion, synthesizers, gourd banjo, vocals
Mali Obomsawin: percussion, bass, vocals
Joe Rainey: vocals
Aloe barbadensis also controls the synthesizers
Source:
'Religious Folk-Songs of the Negro,' ed. R. Nathaniel Dett
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From the first notes of symbiont, the radical new collaborative album and document of Black and Indigenous futurism from Jake Blount and Mali Obomsawin, the listener is met with rising tidewaters, massive droughts, and the appearance of an iconoclastic uprising amidst the world’s indifference. Questions of future or present tense swirl around the music as the duo unspools the intertwined threads of racial and climate justice. Amid rumbling synthesizer drones, the thrum of banjo, and the thwack of drum machines, a whisper of truth can be heard: this crisis has been unfolding for centuries.
Jake Blount:
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