August 1, 2024

Symbiont: Jake Blount and Mali Obomsawin

Smithsonian Folkways - SFW CD 40265

Format: CD, Compilation
Country: United States
Released: September 27, 2024
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Folk, & Electronic
[Tracklist]
01 Prelude; Jake Blount and Mali Obomsawin feat. Jeanne Meserve (00:50)
02 What's You Gonna Do When the World's On Fire; Jake Blount and Mali Obomsawin (03:12)
03 No Hiding Place; Jake Blount and Mali Obomsawin feat. Sidy (03:19)
04 My Way's Cloudy; Jake Blount and Mali Obomsawin feat. Joe Rainey (03:20)
05 Mother; Jake Blount and Mali Obomsawin (04:28)
06 Stars Beging to Fall; Jake Blount and Mali Obomsawin feat. Taylor Ho Bynum (03:45)
07 The Green Road; Jake Blount and Mali Obomsawin (02:59)
08 Live Humble; Jake Blount and Mali Obomsawin (04:16)
09 In the Garden; Jake Blount and Mali Obomsawin (04:18)
10 Come Down Ancients; Jake Blount and Mali Obomsawin (02:59)
11 Old Indian Hymn; Jake Blount and Mali Obomsawin (03:19)
[Credits]
Producer: Jake Blount & Mali Obomsawin, Liner Notes Editor: Carla Borden, Designer: Caroline Gut, Engineer: Joseph DeJarnette at Sudio 808a & Mike Monseur at Axis Audio
[Notes]
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.

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