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Bizhiki - Unbound [Sky Blue Vinyl]

Jagjaguwar

  • £26.76

Format: Coloured Vinyl LP
Catalogue No.: JAG465LP-C1
Barcode: 0656605246536
Release Date: 19 Jul 2024
Genre: Indie/Alternative

 Unbound opens with a single, trembling chord that rises and descends before meeting a warm, beguiling voice, a voice singing in a tradition that’s been heard in this northern river country for millennia. The music that follows is a soulful dialogue between the ancient tradition of powwow singing and a contemporary musical palette.
 On ‘Unbound’, the powwow style of singing is entwined with synthesized voice modulation, and hand drumming is accented with electronic samples and beats - the harmonies and resonances are equal parts cultural and musical.
 Geographically, Bizhiki is almost wholly a made-in-Wisconsin project, a collaboration between Dylan Bizhikiins Jennings, Joe Rainey and the multi-instrumentalist Sean Carey (S. Carey), who for years has been a secret weapon within the Bon Iver family.
 Bezhikiins Jennings grew up singing within the powwow tradition, around the Lac Du Flambeau and Lac Courte Oreilles reservations in Central Wisconsin. He now makes his home in Northern Wisconsin, on the Bad River reservation on the shores of Lake Superior. He’s joined on the album by his adopted brother, Rainey, a Red Lake Ojibwe powwow singer from Minneapolis who now makes his home within his wife’s Oneida Nation on the shores of Lake Michigan.
 The collaboration between these three musicians first began at the Eaux Claires festival in 2015. The festival was being organized on Ojibwe’s ancestral homelands, and the organizers didn’t feel right without the inclusion of the native communities who lived nearby. Bizhikiins Jennings remembers getting an invitation to play the festival and thinking “I wish more people would say this - that instead of reading from some land acknowledgement, that they would say ‘we’re gonna give your people space and just invite you to do what you wanna do.’” The open-endedness of the initial invitation and the “let’s just do something together” spirit continues to inform Bizhiki’s process.
 Recording steadily over the course of years - and between several projects from Bizhiki’s members, including two major solo albums (Joe Rainey’s ‘Niineta’ and S. Carey’s ‘Break Me Open’) - the trio chipped away at an expansive, ambitious and unique record that sounds like no other music being made today.
 ‘Unbound’ is a collaboration between a group of singers and musicians at a particular time and place, exchanging ideas in an open-ended dialogue deeply considering the resources that we’re trying to share, generations into the future.
 LP available on Sky Blue coloured vinyl and black vinyl.

Tracklisting
Franklin Warrior
Unbound
SGC
She’s All We Have
Rez News
Nashke!
Float Back By
Trying To Live
Gigawaabamin (Come Through) (feat. Mike Sullivan)
Call Me Home
Medicine River

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