Mar 16
De cercle en cercle, ressasser et se perdre dans l'illusion née de la production de distractions et multiplier la statique environnante! by Fly Pan Am (featuring Norsola Johnson) from the album Sédatif en fréquences et sillons
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De cercle en cercle, ressasser et se perdre dans l'illusion née de la production de distractions et multiplier la statique environnante! by Fly Pan Am (featuring Norsola Johnson) from the album Sédatif en fréquences et sillons
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Out 04 October on Constellation Records
Jessica Moss — Entanglement. 2018 : Constellation.
Solis Invicti [Weekly Mixtape 202]
Aarktica | Steve Von Till | Chimehours | Walking Bombs | The Mon | Psychic TV | Katt Rán | SANAM | Danheim | William Covert Trio | Sowulo | Wino | Eugene S. Robinson
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Music On This Mixtape:
Aarktica: "Slept Through Christmas" taken from the album "Morning One (2023 remaster)"
Steve Von Till: "Watch Them Fade" taken from the album "Alone in a World of Wounds"
Chimehours: "Greentree" taken from the album "Underneath the Earth"
Walking Bombs: "The Lonely Petition (Grace Remnants)" taken from the album "Blessings Bestrewn Pt. 1"
The Mon: "The Hidden Ghost" taken from the album "Songs Of Abandon"
Psychic TV: "Elipse Of Flowers" taken from the album "A Prayer For Derek Jarman"
Katt Rán: "Ran" taken from the album "LYS"
SANAM: "Goblin" taken from the album "Sametou Sawtan"
Danheim: "Kominn Dagr" taken from the album "Heimferd"
William Covert Trio: "C-Beams" taken from the album "Dream Vessel"
Sowulo: "Sōl ond Māni" taken from the album "NIHT"
Wino: "New Terms" taken from the album "Create Or Die"
Eugene S. Robinson: "I Gotta Be Me" taken from the single "I Gotta Be Me"
A Silver Mt. Zion - For Wanda (He Has Left Us Alone But Shafts Of Light Sometimes Grace The Corner Of Our Rooms..., 2000)
'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!
17: Alanis Obomsawin // Bush Lady
Bush Lady Alanis Obomsawin 1985, Radio Canada (Bandcamp)
A review of the well-meaning things I meant to say about Alanis Obomsawin’s Bush Lady
“No matter how accomplished Obomsawin’s sole LP, 1988’s cult classic Bush Lady may be, it’s naturally overshadowed by her extensive work as a documentary filmmaker. Her searing Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance (available to stream for free from the National Film Board), covering the 1990 Oka standoff between local Indigenous land defenders, Quebec police, and the Canadian military, is a landmark. Her films are celebrated, broadcast on public television, and taught in schools.”
1.5/5—Book report quality. This is a not-very-slick way of admitting the only one of her movies I’ve seen in her most famous one. Also saying a director’s films are “celebrated, broadcast on public television, and taught in schools” in Canada sounds a lot like saying not many people have actually seen them.
“Her roots as a singer-songwriter predate her filmmaking, however. By the late 1950s, when she was in her twenties, she was performing and writing original songs in the Waban-Aki/Abenaki language, English, and French, but her recordings are sporadic prior to cutting this set at the CBC in the mid-1980s. The material was scantly issued at the time, and it probably found its widest listenership after a 2018 reissue by Constellation Records.”
2/5—Solid enough exposition, though it does beg the question why I didn’t just paste in the press release from the label.
“Bush Lady finds her singing and playing a handheld frame drum alongside a Quebecois chamber quartet. I was drawn to the record by ‘Odana,’ a melancholy fable about resisting colonial land grabs written in Abenaki by a tribal elder in the 1800s, which Obomsawin has presumably set to music of her own devising. Arranger Jean Vanasse and the quartet, likely trying to equate the song to a mode they were more familiar with, approach it like Nelson Riddle on Sinatra’s Only the Lonely. Nocturnal strings and woodwinds ripple around Obomsawin’s satiny vocal, lending the tragic folk tale the style of a blue ballad in an urban theatre.”
2.5/5—It took a while, but finally something about the music, an opinion even!
“There may be a bit of a feint in opening an album called Bush Lady with such a high-thread-count piece. ‘Odana’ lulls the non-Abenaki-speaking listener in with its soothingly westernized take on ‘Indian music,’ the lyrics’ message about stolen land masked by the unfamiliar tongue.”
2/5—Translation: “I am sort of embarrassed that the song I like best on this protest album is the one that sounds kind of like Nat King Cole, so I’ll change the subject to rhetoric.”
“But as the music segues into the theatrical 13-minute title track, its politics become explicit even to an English speaker. Obomsawin chants ritualistically over the insistent thump of her frame drum, interspersed with semi-spoken dialogue. She acts out characters: leering white men who harass and prey upon young Native girls; scornful, gossiping housewives; and finally the ‘Bush Lady’ herself, asking a white woman to care for her blonde mixed race child for fear it will be rejected by her own people. The recurring chant serves as a Greek chorus, a mournful counterpoint to the acrid sarcasm of the dialogue. The song undergoes a dramatic shift at the end when the fallen woman is visited by the spirit by her kokum (grandmother), who ushers her into paradise, accompanied by fluttering strings.”
3/5—Decent exegesis. But, dammit man, do you enjoy it or don't you?
“The track is a surprisingly good fit with reissuing label Constellation’s own catalogue. Like their cohort of Godspeed You! Black Emperor-adjacent projects, ‘Bush Lady’ is expansive and confrontational, fusing funereal cello and violin with blunt agitprop. When it works, it has a palpable force. Like agitprop though, the song isn’t subtle fare, and I have to admit the melodramatic conclusion (which is a harp or two away from a caricature of Christian heaven) feels a bit Wizard of Oz to me. I also don’t have a lot to say about the nearly side-length ‘Théo,’ a second drum-driven story song, this one sung in French. It is even more in a spoken word style than ‘Bush Lady,’ and as an Anglophone I can’t glean much despite another magnetic Obomsawin vocal.”
2.5/5—Reader, that must be one comfortable fence.
“I’m glad to have this reissue of Bush Lady in my collection for its transfixing A-side, and its significant overall historical interest. It’s well worth a listen for the curious.”
Overall review rating: 2.2142857142857142857142857142857/5, or 5 CLICK THE LINK TO WATCH HER FILMS FOR FREEs out of 5.
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